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Ross Emmett wrote: 
 
>The essay begins: 
> 
>"To do the genealogy, rather than the history, of political economy 
>involves attempting to understand how, at a given moment, it succeeded in 
>organising the production of truth, rather than recounting its progress 
>towards scientific rigour or the way in which it followed the development 
>of the economy itself. 
>To what Michel Foucault called a *savoir* and what Paul Veyne calls a 
>'programme of truth', genealogy does not pose the question of the 
>truthfulness of what it says. By rediscovering how, against what other 
>discourses, it succeeded in imposing itself, it addresses the question of 
>the pertinence of the truth it constructs." 
> 
>Meuret, Denis. 1993. A political genealogy of political economy. In 
>_Foucault's New Domains_, ed. Mike Gane and Terry Johnson, 49-74. 
>London: Routledge. 
 
Can anyone tell me what this means--or if it means anything at all? 
 
Brad De Long 
 
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