Allin Cottrell writes that any attempts to interpret neoclassical models in terms of real processes is put off as story tellings. This seems to imply that economists consider their models the real thing and actual practices to be just stories. However when I was in graduate school most of my professors used the expression story to refers to expositions of the model itself. Tracing out the comparative statics of a particular model was refered to as telling a story. Prior to the popular acce3p ptance of McCloskey's views on rhetoric, this useage was quite unselfconscious. Drue Barker Department of Economics Hollins College [EMAIL PROTECTED]
