Subject: BHA: path dependence - thanks!
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:28:52 +0200


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Dear list members,

I would really want to send to you my regards for your kind interest in the question I have raised about path dependence, especially to Dick Moodey,
Paschalis and Marsh Feldman. I would say these references are totally helpful in getting into the literature on 'historical economics'. However I still have some personal doubts about historical economists' "critical" stand in social theory, as Ben Fine quite fairly points out. See that some of the references you have mentioned belong to a conventionalist interpretation of doing economics science. And yet, I would say, the literature on path dependence does not completely depend on 'mainstream' presumptions (see for instance Tony Lawson's chapter on PD in his book Economics and Reality), although many of them really do (such as evolutionary game theorists widely and successfully scrutinised in Jack Vromen's Economic Evolution: London, Routledge, 1995). I am not sure of my self to open a discussing on this issue via the email list; however, I would appreciate any perspective or comment on the subject.

Friendly,

Altug

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