================= HES POSTING ================= Robert Leeson, The more you write about Stigler's understanding of the "non-positivist" influences that shape "economic knowledge" and the ways that he used this understanding to shape and define economic discourse (published, refereed economic discourse), the less convinced I am of his merit as an historian of thought or an historiographer. He may have been a great gamesman and a ruthless academic politician, but an historian? I am still waiting to be convinced. Brad Bateman Grinnell College ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]