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Tony, 
 
Isn't there an implicit view of history (Whiggish or cynical?) in contemporary 
economics which maintains, without reflection, that economics IS the 
application of tools; therefore the quality of the data (to which the tools 
are 
applied) is not central to the operation.  The past is, by definition, 
inferior 
to the present because the tools were less 'impressive'.  This is not an 
"harangue [of] of neo-classisists ... using the pretence of intellectual 
history"; but a (perhaps misplaced) concern about quality. 
 
Robert Leeson 
University of Western Ontario 
 
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