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Dear Colleagues, 
 
 
        I would like to encourage you to consider putting together a session at the 2005
ASSAs celebrating an anniversary of interest to the community of historians of economics.
Here are some possibilities that have been suggested to me by Thomas Moser:
          
        1705 -- "The Grumbling of the Hive:  Or knaves turn'd honest" (2nd edition becomes
the Fable of  the Bees in 1714) was published by Bernard de Mandeville.
          
        1705 -- John Law published "Money and Trade Considered with a Proposal for
Supplying the Nation with Money", which introduced the well-known "diamond-water paradox".
          
        1755 -- "A System of Moral Philosophy" was published posthumously by Francis
Hutcheson (1694-1746).
          
        1755 -- Richard Cantillon's "Essai Sure la Nature du Commerce en General" was
published after some delay (Perhaps a session on such delayed publications?).
          
        1855 -- Death of Richard Jones. 
         
 
        1905 -- The births of Richard F. Kahn 1905-1989 and Heinrich von Stackelberg 1905-
1946.
         
        1905 -- Death of Clement Juglar (1819-1905), sometimes called the father of
business cycle theory due to his "Des Crises commerciales et leur retour periodique en
France, en Angleterre, et aux Etats-Unis" pulished in 1862.  A session on early business
cycle theory?
          
        1955 -- The Cowles Commission moved from Chicago to Yale (and was renamed the
"Cowles Foundation") apparently because of increasing problems between the Commission and
the dept. of economics at Chicago.  This would be a somewhat unconventional anniversary,
but it could give rise to a number of interesting issues, and would provide an opportunity
to honor the late James Tobin, since he became director fo the Cowles Foundation after its
move to Yale.
         
        In addition, it might be feasible to celebrate a 2004 anniversary (see the posting
from Thomas Moser, earlier this month) at the beginning of 2005.
 
        Thanks.   
 
        Sandra 
 
 
 
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