the best any thread on pen-l (and lbo-talk?) seems to be able to do is to clarify differences.
Jim Devine ======================== "'perceptual fault lines' run through apparently stable communities that appear to have agreed on basic institutions and structures and on general governing rules. Consent comes apart in battles of description. Consent comes apart over whose stories to tell." [Kim Scheppele in "Another Look at the Problem of Rent Seeking" by Steven Medema, JEI Vol xxv # 4] "History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything...Nothing was more completely ruined by the last war than the pretension to foresight. But it was not from any lack of knowledge of history, surely?...The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. [Paul Valery]
