----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Robert Whaples' review is properly headed "Economic History in a *'Mainstream'* Reference Work." I bought the first edition several years ago, with the intent to add it to my course outline. I read (most of) it and dropped that idea. It represents the sort of 'mainstream' that equates economics with the neoclassical-cum-econometric paradigm: measurement without theory, theory without people, people without history. Most modern introductory textbooks take the same approach to the teaching of our discipline, so why prescribe a short-order cookbook for our students? Jesse Vorst ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]