I suggest that all those whom downplay HOT as "the history of error" take a look at two somewhat overlooked items by Debreu, mainly, his Frisch Memorial Lecture as published in Econometrica 54,6, Nov. 1986, 1259-1270, and his AEA Presidential address, publised in AER 81,1, March 1991, 1-7. Debreu seems to think HOT not to be "the history of error", but an important part of economic discourse, at least on my reading of these pieces. And if Gerard thinks so, who am I, as a lowly "hagiographer", to dispute one of the foremost theoreticians of modern economics... Warren Young