The International Economic Association sponsored a conference in Siena in 2006 on "Keynes's General Theory After 70 Years," which I co-organized with Robert Mundell and with IEA vice-president Alessandro Vercelli. The decision to accept it as an International Economic Association conference was taken by the IEA Executive Committee at the 2005 IEA World Congress in Marrakesh. I understand that the planners of the 2011 IEA World Congress in Beijing intend to have sessions on the history of economics. Roy Weintraub has raised the issue of the extent to which mainstream economists are hostile to the history of economic thought because they identify the history of economic thought with heterodox, dissenting approaches. But that cannot be the whole explanation of, for example, the recent action of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which is directed as much against economic history as against the history of economic thought:cliometricians, although much more aware of historical context than is common for economists in other fields, are not usually suspected of heterodox leanings. Robert Dimand