Rakesh wrote in [5703]: > I appreciate your presence here Steve, but if > you would prefer to engage other hetero > economists, why are you on this list? Steve is on this list for the same reason others are: to exchange ideas, learn from each other, sharpen our own perspectives, and challenge our own preconceptions. We benefit enormously from the presence of members like Steve K and Gil and Gary and Ajit for they force us to explain what we might otherwise have taken for granted. Coming from different intellectual traditions, they also bring to the discussion a knowledge of a literature that we might not be as well versed in. We are lucky to have them as members. I only hope that they feel that they have gained as much by their presence as others have benefited by it. One of the hallmarks of OPE-L has been its diversity of theoretical perspectives. Another hallmark has been the extent to which members from very diverse intellectual and theoretical traditions have been able to seriously engage each other in scholarly and comradely discussions. Long may it continue! In solidarity, Jerry
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