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Roger Middleton, Keith Tribe and I are writing a paper on 
quantitative work in the history of economic thought. By 
this we mean quantitative analysis of what is going on in 
the subject, such as analysing destinations of graduates 
from various universities, statistical analysis of 
citations and publications. As part of this paper, we would 
like to prepare a bibliography of such work. Our view is 
that quite a lot of such work has been done, but it is 
scattered around many places. One of our aims in the 
paper is to list such work, and provide a general 
discussions of the possibilities and problems with it. In 
addition we are hoping to further a discussion of how 
co-operation can be encouraged so that people do not end 
up repeating work that has been done by someone else. 
 
We would welcome suggestions of material that should be 
included in such a bibliography. If you have written such 
papers that we may not know about, or if work of which we 
will have seen only a preliminary version has since (or 
will be) published, we would like to know about it. 
 
Related to this, does anyone know the source of the 
quotation, that we associate with Viner, "Economics is 
what economists do"? 
 
Roger Backhouse 
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University of Birmingham 
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