----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Pertinent to this discussion is the excellent article in the current Challenge, "The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith" who certainly asked economists to consider the possibility that the contemporary training of economists - almost exclusively in mathematical finesse and ignorant of the history of the discipline - could produce a view of how the economy works that is not worth much at all, elegant and refined as it may be. Susan ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]