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     At the risk of giving too short a response: the question is, why 
study the history of economic thought?  The answer given is quite 
adequate: to become a better economist.  There are other answers; such as, 
to defend myself against better economists (whom I know to be fallible); 
and because it is a matter of personal intense interest, for reasons that 
I cannot explain to anyone's complete satisfaction. 
 
Robin Neill. 
 
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