================= HES POSTING ================= Robert Leeson's recent mention of Stigler's history of the "kinky demand curve" prompted me to recall Craig Freedman's "The Economist as Mythmaker" (Journal of Economic Issues, March 1995, pp. 175-209). Freedman paints a less than flattering portrait of Stigler's assault on the kinked demand curve. *-------------------------------*------------------------------------------* | Brian Eggleston, Ph.D. | | | Associate Professor and Chair | "It is by invisible hands that we are | | Department of Economics | bent and tortured worst." | | Augustana College | | | Sioux Falls, SD 57197 | Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | | [log in to unmask] | | *-------------------------------*------------------------------------------* ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]