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Like Kevin Quinn I was troubled by the ready acceptance by David Colander, Barkley Rosser,
and others of a thick/thin dichotomy.  I don't know whether Roy Weintraub believes that
internalist history is synonymous with "thin" history, although he has stigmatized both.
But I certainly do not believe that internalist history needs to be thin in any ordinary
language meaning of the term and I would resist using it as a bit of technical jargon
meaning "not thick in Roy's sense," as it comes with so much pejorative baggage -- after
all, who wants to write thin history (just like who is anti-life or anti-choice).  What is
more, the idea that internalist history is an extended literature survey of old literature
fails to do justice to the genre.
 
Kevin Hoover 
 
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