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This is slightly beside Roy Weintraub's point about how 20th century HET is 
taught, but is not totally irrelevant. Several years ago I taught a senior 
course in HET to a small group of very good students. I had them read 
summaries of Smith, Marx, Marshall and Veblen in standard texts and then we 
read biggish chunks of what these men wrote. As a last exercise I had them 
read a portion of _The General Theory_ and then had them read what 
Samuelson said about Keynesian economics in an earlier and then in a later 
edition. I also asked them to remind themselves of what they had learned 
about Keynes in macro courses. I suggested that HET didn't end in 1899 or 
1929 and asked them to write an essay on how HET was created and formed. It 
was an interesting exercise. 
 
Anne Mayhew 
 
 
 
 
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