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[log in to unmask] (Ross B. Emmett)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:43 2006
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Everyone wants to be the cat hunting mice. 
 
But is it possible to have a mouse-eye view of the world? 
 
I take historical reconstruction to be the task of finding and understanding 
the mouse-eye view of the world. That doesn't mean the cat is wrong; just 
that there is value is understanding the world from the mouse's view as 
well. Who knows, we might find that the mouse roars. 
 
Gani's approach sounds a lot like the one that Frank Knight articulated in 
the first sentence of "The Ricardian Theory of Production and Distribution": 
"On the assumption that the primary interest in the 'ancients' in such a 
field as economics is to learn from their mistakes, the principal theme of 
this discussion will be the contrast between the 'classical' system and 
'correct' views." 
 
Ross B. Emmett