HET as Living Legacy Is it possible to pursue HET as a living legacy in this forum in contrast to supposing that HET is collection of relics as a history of past errors? To study HET as a living legacy is to take a set of inherited ideas that we are using today. It may be contrasted with the notion of HET as a dead relic accumulated in an archive or museum, where we pay occasional visits to satisfy the curiosity of how people in past ages thought unlike we who think differently (and hopefully more intelligently). The Living Legacy Approach seems to have been adopted by people who have made major contributions to new thinking while the Dead Relic Approach has been popular with those who have not themselves added to new thinking in significant ways. The relic examiners may have developed a rich literature on the details of the genesis and evolution of ideas. But those would usually provide no guidance to people who need help with solving problems of today by finding new ways of thinking about old and new problems. I happen to pursue the Living Legacy Approach and therefore I tend to evaluate ideas less for their historical roots than for their current relevance. I am afraid that those who pursue the Dead Relic Approach may find my messages somewhat less historical than they would like them to be. I am afraid that some may even think that I am trying to reconstruct economics in a forum uninterested in such a pursuit. But should we not look at the ideas we adopt today and see if these have flaws that require repairs? Mohammad Gani