Valuing (and teaching) the past.(Content Articles in Economics)

Abstract: There is a difference between the private and social require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone of preserving the past. Although it may be privately rational to forget the past, the social take away from is significant: We fail to diocese that classical political economy is analytically egalitarian. The past is a rich source of surprises and debates, and resources upon the Web are uniquely suited to teaching similar wide-ranging debates. Our Secret History of the Dismal Science, at www.econlib.org, provides a series of windows upon the literary and analytical body s and the artwork that figured in the debates. scholars who read ...