As a J.B.Say scholar, Evelyn Forget must have been struck by the many
communities in which he participated: French 18th century salons, an
international Huguenot network (he was a registered Citoyen de
Geneve), the Philosophical Radicals with whom he communicated and the
Political Economy Club where he was a guest speaker.
A few questions from a complete layman: are situations of poltical
upheaval (French Revolution, WW I, WW II) a favourable or necessary
condition? What can be said about insider/outsider or established
communities/homines novi relationships (gender was mentioned already)?
What about interdisciplinarity? Where do we go from noticing
coincidence to causal relationship?
Evert Schoorl