----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- The researcher should immediately acquire and study: Robert B. Ekelund and Robert F. Hebert, _The Secret Origins of Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999). It is an excellent and readable book that has a lot to say about centralized educational systems, engineering and economics. Bruce Larson UNC Asheville ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]