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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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