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Gani's message raises some real issues for me concerning the nature of this 
list. I submit that his message posted today has nothing whatsoever to do 
with the history of economics, but rather is an attempt to "reconstruct" 
what he considers to be ill-conceived mainstream arguments about value.  
 
The HES-List, which is sponsored in part by the History of Economics 
Society (and now by ESHET too), is not one to censor postings frequently, 
although some do get blocked from posting by the list moderator, and those 
sometimes with the advice of the HES Executive Committee. Nevertheless, the 
list does have as its purpose promoting discussion in the history of 
economics.  
 
There are many lists for heterodox economists to blast away at the 
mainstream, from PK-List, to Hayek-L, to sci.econ.res, to sci.econ, etc. So 
postings that employ no historical argument, or raise no historical 
question, or engage no historical research, are in my own personal view 
inappropriate for the HES-List. 
 
The particular thread that Gani's latest attaches itself to began with 
historical material, and the discussion went on in a lot of to me 
interesting directions. But for it to develop into, as is sometimes the 
case for other threads, "mainstream economics is a snare and a delusion and 
here is how I would repair it" seems to me to be, if not injudicious, at 
least historically uninteresting and thus list-inappropriate.   
 
E. Roy Weintraub 
 
 
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