----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Thre is a lucid and important discussion of economists' notions of value shaping and shaped by, and read against, aesthetic and ethical ideas in Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. E. Roy Weintraub Duke University ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]