On 12/6/2010 1:54 AM, Eric Schliesser wrote:
> Roy's underlying question is an important one. Moreover, it's good 
> that 'we' as a community occasionally try to instruct and challenge 
> each other in what 'we' are really about.
> Yet, this conversation is drifting into suggestions that will enhance 
> HET as an intellectual backwater, rather than exciting place to 
> explore new approaches. (This is especially unfortunate because we are 
> suddenly living in a time again when 'our' historical perspective can 
> make a genuine difference to intellectual conversations about the 
> nature of economics and the economy.)
>
How so can it make a genuine difference, Eric. Do you have anything 
specific in mind?

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