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A thought on the editorial: 
The historian of economic thought has a supplementary and subversive function: 
to counteract the 'provincialism in time' that tends to permeate the 
professional culture of economists.  To remove the history of economic 
thought from 'economics' and to place it within 'history' would isolate 
economists still further from the history of their own subject.  Keynes' 
professed attitude (the history of thought is suitable for those who are 
beyond 
serious work) is preferable to the view that the history of economics is a 
quarrelsome subject in a far-away department about which we know nothing. 
 
Robert Leeson 
 
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