Setting the aim of replacing partisan narrative with knowledge is a
tradition that runs all the way back to Herodotus and Thucydides.  You
mention Kuhn, but I am not aware of anything Kuhn said that would lead one
to abandon that aim.  Recalling now those sixties revolutionaries, I think
it was rather Feyerabend who suggested that science benefits from political
interference, and from dishonesty, and is on a par with myth.  Would you
wish to endorse that view?

I find the ease with which inexcusable misrepresentations can be detected in
writings concerning monetary history disquieting.  It occurs to me to add
Fernand Braudel to my earlier list of culprits here.

Rob Tye

York, UK

personal web site:  http://www.earlyworldcoins.com

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From:    Eric Schliesser <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]   Sent: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:10:33 -0700
Subject:      Re: "Inside Job" and code of ethics for economists

All sciences engage in myth making when it comes to their own history--this
has been well known since Kuhn and since amply documented.

ES 

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