Mason Gaffney wrote:
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Please excuse a gratuitous explosion, but I do not see the value of this
project other than further to document the folly of mankind, something that
Jonathan Swift, P.T. Barnum, and H.L. Mencken did years ago.
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Does this not amount to saying that you do not see the value of 
history? To construct the history of economics it is important to 
understand what was taught and how it was taught, whatever that was. 
As this is a history of economics forum, I will not express any view 
on whether it is wisdom or folly to teach students to understand the 
Coase theorem.

Roger Backhouse