================= HES POSTING ================= Brad: I am fascinated by your reference to George Stigler's "tired old Whig history". I see in his work some remarkably perceptive sociology of knowledge, well before Kuhn popularised that type of thinking. His humour, his determination and his understanding of the weakenesses and tendencies of his formalist-Keynesian-Chamberlin opponents reveal a mind that saw ANYTHING BUT Whiggish outcomes. Friedman and Stigler (amateur and professional) were self-consciously revolutionary in their understanding of the process of knowledge construction and destruction. Or have I misunderstood your point? Robert Leeson University of Western Ontario ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]