User talk:Lime.green.girl

Cantillon
Hello Lime.green.girl,

Thank you for taking an interest in the Cantillon article. Unfortunately I felt I had to take out your additions for the following reasons:

1. in the first paragraph the unconfirmed and conflicting stories about the cause of his death have already been referred to; Murphy (1986) also gives other possible explanations for his sudden disappearance (he might even have gone off to Surinam, assuming another identity)

2. general textbooks on HET tend to make this kind of statements like "it is possible that had he not been murdered he might've taken Adam Smith's place as the Father of Modern Economics". well, with all due respect for Landreth and Colander, I think all of us could make lots and lots of interesting statements, starting with ..if.. and continuing with ..might have..

the original text (third para) already invokes high authority (Jevons, Hayek) to emphasise the importance of C.'s contribution to the development of economics, so - in my humble opinion - L. & C.'s evaluation does not really add much.

and for the rest, well, I would prefer to stick to the facts

hope you don't mind, always willing to discuss further Robertsch55 10:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)