=============== HES POSTING ========================== E. Roy Weintraub writes that "To call Samuelson a Walrasian, or a formalist, is inappropriate". Leaving aside the issue of formalism (and also the general thesis of the posting and earlier editorial) to consider only the narrow question of how appropriately Samuelson may be called a Walrasian, I notice that Samuelson claimed in the introduction to the 1983 enlarged edition of Foundations that "The first edition of Foundations of Economic Analysis was a culmination and also a beginning. It finally achieved for economics a synthesis of Cournot's Newtonian calculus method of maximizing with Walras's equations of general equilibrium." There is of course a question as to the extent to which an author is a privileged commentator on the nature and significance of his or her earlier work. Robert Dimand [log in to unmask] Department of Economics Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 Canada ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]