Clicking the wrong mouse. Ponder Spinoza: "Non ridere, non lugere, neque  
detestari, sed intelligere." 
 
Anthony Waterman 
 
 
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From: "Mohammad Gani" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:14 AM 
Subject: HES: DISC -- A cat and mouse story 
 
 
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> 
>   About the character of historical scholarship, I have this curiosity:  
> does 
>   the cat kill the curiosity? Is it a sign of historical scholarship that > the 
>   scholar merely provides a reprint of the original authors in a  
> comparative 
>   chronology of how the thoughts changed, without exercising any judgment > as 
>   to whether errors were made? If the feline were merely to collect dead  
> mice 
>   and sort them in order of the date of death, with no curiosity as to 
the 
>   erroneous ways of the mouse, and without an ability to catch them in  
> their 
>   stray movements, I think it is too dull for me. I want to be the kind 
of  
> cat 
>   that now and then chases the erroneous mouse. 
> 
>   For example, if it is not distasteful to the noble souls here, I wish 
to 
>   put  Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Jevons,  Menger, Marshall, Fisher, 
>   Keynes, Samuelson, Arrow, Friedman, Solow, Debreu and Lucas on trial on > the 
>   same charge of unrealism, except that they made the unreality various  
> and 
>   virtuous. My vicious target is to cultivate the vice of realism. 
> 
>   Now, do I belong here? Is it the community of gatherers who do not 
hunt?  
> Or 
>   am I clicking the wrong mouse? 
> 
>   Mohammad Gani 
> 
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