----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- This is slightly beside Roy Weintraub's point about how 20th century HET is taught, but is not totally irrelevant. Several years ago I taught a senior course in HET to a small group of very good students. I had them read summaries of Smith, Marx, Marshall and Veblen in standard texts and then we read biggish chunks of what these men wrote. As a last exercise I had them read a portion of _The General Theory_ and then had them read what Samuelson said about Keynesian economics in an earlier and then in a later edition. I also asked them to remind themselves of what they had learned about Keynes in macro courses. I suggested that HET didn't end in 1899 or 1929 and asked them to write an essay on how HET was created and formed. It was an interesting exercise. Anne Mayhew ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]