Mary S. writes, referring I believe to McCloskey-Chicago type economic 
history: 
 
>     In the hands of a proponent of specific types of economic 
>policies, this is dangerous stuff indeed. 
 
So are many variants of French philosophy and bad economics. 
 
Steven Horwitz 
Eggleston Associate Professor of Economics 
St. Lawrence University 
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