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Folks,
Four years ago today, "Welcome Aboard" from History of Economics Society
President Malcolm Rutherford was distributed to the new 'hes' email
distribution list by editor Ross Emmett. (Following my signature is a
copy of that notice, from our web archive.)
Happy Birthday to the HES Email List!
When I checked email this afternoon, I found unusually strong evidence
that editor Ross Emmett had been "on the job" during the past 24 hours.
Careful readers of the archive may be able to check his dinner hour or
even his coffee break.
The only surprise was the flurry of contributions from subscribers.
For three of our four years, Ross has been the email editor on duty
fulltime, meaning 52 weeks and 1 day in each year.
Thank you, Ross.
----Paul
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA
Asst.editor, HES e-info services
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[NOTE: oh yea, the inevitable moderator's note! While the following
message is the first one in the HES archive, it was not the first message
on the HES list. That honor belonged to a "Welcome Aboard" message that
went to the small group of subscribers who had either heard about the
start of HES at the first European Conference on the History of Economics
(Rotterdam, February 1995) or been contacted by Larry Moss and myself.
That first message went out on HES sometime around February 10, 1995.
Unfortunately, I did not realize that the Babson College server, which
was our host at that time, did not archive messages, and I only began to
save the messages on HES on February 17. Hence, Malcolm's message as the
honor of being first in our archive, even if it was not the first on the
list! -- RBE]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 12:11:50 -0800 (PST)
From: [log in to unmask] Subject: HES: Welcome Aboard
To: HES <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello to all -- its great to be on line. I will be at Notre Dame
and will be seeking to make some development of the project
concerning the History of American Economics that Mary Morgan and I
announced at the HES meeting at Babson. We are still hoping to
put together a conference on this topic -- maybe in 1997. We have
been discussing possible themes and have two possibilities:
1) The Transformation of American Economics: From Inter-War Pluralism
to Formalized Neoclassicism; and
2) American Voices: Economic Discourse in America 1800-1950.
The former is more focused. We would be looking for studies of the
character of inter-war American Economics (which we think was broad
and encompassing of many differing viewpoints) and of how any why
that situation became transformed in the post World-War II period.
The other topic area is a much more general attempt to get people
to think about the extent to which American Economics can be
understood as an American Discourse, dealing with American concerns
and addressed to other Americans. This is not to claim that there is
a distinctive American School of economics (although there have been
a number of Schools or traditions of economics particularly associated
with America from the Nationalist school to Institutionalism to Chicago)
but it is to claim that an understanding of American Economics requires
an understanding of its American context (particularly in terms of
problems, policy, intellectual influences and so on). That is,
American Economics is not simply British economics writ small.
Chamberlin is not simply Joan Robinson at a different Cambridge!
I shall return to this theme again when more subscribers are on line,
but those of you out there now please give me your thoughts.
Malcolm Rutherford
University of Victoria
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