----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Joseph Persky's "Ceteris Paribus" in the Retrospectives section of the Spring 1990 Journal of Economic Perspectives (pp. 187-193) provides a brief history of c.p. which he terms (p. 188) a "history of studied ambiguity". Brian Eggleston ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]