Clicking the wrong mouse. Ponder Spinoza: "Non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere." Anthony Waterman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohammad Gani" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: HES: DISC -- A cat and mouse story > ----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- > > About the character of historical scholarship, I have this curiosity: > does > the cat kill the curiosity? Is it a sign of historical scholarship that > the > scholar merely provides a reprint of the original authors in a > comparative > chronology of how the thoughts changed, without exercising any judgment > as > to whether errors were made? If the feline were merely to collect dead > mice > and sort them in order of the date of death, with no curiosity as to the > erroneous ways of the mouse, and without an ability to catch them in > their > stray movements, I think it is too dull for me. I want to be the kind of > cat > that now and then chases the erroneous mouse. > > For example, if it is not distasteful to the noble souls here, I wish to > put Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Jevons, Menger, Marshall, Fisher, > Keynes, Samuelson, Arrow, Friedman, Solow, Debreu and Lucas on trial on > the > same charge of unrealism, except that they made the unreality various > and > virtuous. My vicious target is to cultivate the vice of realism. > > Now, do I belong here? Is it the community of gatherers who do not hunt? > Or > am I clicking the wrong mouse? > > Mohammad Gani > > ----------------- FOOTER TO HES POSTING ----------------- > [log in to unmask] > http://eh.net/mailman/listinfo/hes