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Conversation (and "intellection" generally) is aided by examples. 
It might help to clarify matters if an article or two (or a book or 
two) in the history of economic thought were picked out at random, 
and then discussed in terms of its virtues and defects as a contribution 
to the history of economic thought, e.g. an article or two out of 
HOPE or The European J. of the H. of Econ. Thought.  For example, what 
is the relation of the current discussion of 'Whig' history to 
Donald Walker's "The Structure of Walras's Mature Model of Capital Goods 
Markets", or Nahid Aslanbeigui's "The Cost Controversy: Pigouvian 
Economics in Disequilibrium", in the Summer, 1996 issue of the European 
J. of the H. of Econ. Thought?  Or to Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel's 
_The Invisible Hand_ or Frank Machovec's _Perfect Competition and the 
Transformation of Economics_? 
 
Almost always we are better at evaluating examples than we are at 
evaluating abstractions untied to cases.  What are the cases that inform 
the abstractions? 
 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside 
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