The point is to raise questions about the role of history, institutional connections, and personal histories on the development of contemporary intellectual practices and institutional arrange- ments, not to definitively answer questions for all time, many of which can never be answered according to the mistake demands of 'proof' demanded by the intellectual working under the influence of the dead ideas of Plato and Descartes. The causal role played by the contingency of history can do much to problematize contemporary pictures of the inevitability of the temporary current configuration of intellectual and institutional partices and arrangements down dominant in the Universities, much as the work of S. J. Gould on the contingency of history in Darwinian biology has helped to problematize contemporary 'just so' stories about the inevitability of current adaptive survivors in the biological domain of evolving species and species attributes. Being scholarly means making good judgments based one deep background skills acquired over years for doing such things. It does't mean we can every 'prove' anything in the sense demanded by Plato and Descartes, knowledge is fallible, and depends on background skill. A Web page charting intellectual relationships in economics would generate interest, questions, arguments, knowledge, and awareness which would help economists and those in other fields interested in economics to have better skill in understanding what the field of economics has been all about, and how it (contingently) got that way -- controversy, disagreements in good judgment, and debate can all constribute to the advance of understanding of economics -- all gained through a greater appreciation of the history of economics, provoked by the facination of personal histories, and controversies about how to interpret that history, something that is today sorely lacking among most professional economists, and professional students of contemporary economics. (I can provide confessionals and data on this from Colander, Klamer, Boland, and McCloskey, among many others, if you need them). Greg Ransom Dept. of Philosophy UC-Riverside [log in to unmask]