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I did not mean to suggest or imply that one cannot "learn economics" from studying HE.  I
think that from various of the three that I have listed one can indeed learn useful
economics as well as useful things about economics, if these can be separated.  I fully
agree with the argument of Michael Perelman that how ideas have evolved are very important
in what they are now.  We are not simply dealing with a "toolbox" whose past is of no
interest, as the "Whiggish" view implies.
 
I shall eschew the invitation to comment on whether or how the listed works fit in or do
not fit in with my three categories, but I will not categorically deny that there might be
other categories than those I listed.
 
Barkley Rosser 
 
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