================= HES POSTING ================= Brad Bateman: But Stigler was the author of The Economist as Preacher and had a non-Whiggish view of, for example, why the "kinky [!] demand curve" had survived. He won his Nobel Prize for his work on information. What he wrote about influence in the economics profession betrayed a sociologists' view of knowledge which I think had been cultivated during his student years at Chicago and which blossomed, for him, in the 1950s. He played a crucial role in the process by which Chicago overcame Cambridge. Robert Leeson University of Western Ontario ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]