----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- O.k., I cannot resist. Here are my suggestions: - Thorstein Veblen: The Leisure of the Theory Class - Joseph A. Schumpeter: How I became Austria's greatest lover and Europe's greatest horseman - Larry Summers: The Big Sur Plus an epilogue by H. A. Rey: Curious George goes back the 80s - Friedrich A. Hayek: The long and winding road (to Stockholm) - Freddy Mercury: Whewell Whewell rock you - Joseph E. Stiglitz: Globalization and Its Discontents O.k., the last one is a bit mean and heavily biased. But I can assure you, I really like reading Stiglitz, believe me. The first one was inspired by a recent reading of John K. Galbraith's Name-dropping. If I recall it correctly, he says something like that a colleague of his refers to academic conferences as the leisure of the theory class. Thomas Moser ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]