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Brad: 
 
I am fascinated by your reference to George Stigler's "tired old Whig 
history". 
I see in his work some remarkably perceptive sociology of knowledge, well 
before Kuhn popularised that type of thinking. His humour, his determination 
and his understanding of the weakenesses and tendencies of his 
formalist-Keynesian-Chamberlin opponents reveal a mind that saw ANYTHING BUT 
Whiggish outcomes.  Friedman and Stigler (amateur and 
professional) were self-consciously revolutionary in their understanding of 
the 
process of knowledge construction and destruction.  Or have I misunderstood 
your point? 
 
Robert Leeson 
University of Western Ontario 
 
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