BRUCE SEELY  (History Dept, Michigan Tech) 
seeks to connect with economists, especially those who study the history 
of economists' role in economic policy-making.  His current project is a 
book on U.S. American Transportation Policy; his previous publication is 
history of engineering and business history. 
 
This blurb is what I (Paul Wendt, seminar coordinator) distributed as a 
notice for the last Kress Seminar of the spring, 16 May, where Bruce 
presented a paper and expressed interest in finding others with similar 
interests. 
 
    BRUCE SEELY (History, Michigan Tech) 
    Expertise and Policy: the Role of Economists 
 
    This year Bruce is visiting the Dibner Institute for History of 
    Science and Technology at MIT, where he recently presented part of 
    this project, "Experts, Technology, and American Transportation 
    Policies."  His experts include several economists and he tells an 
    important part of the story of the development of the American 
    regulatory state --and the economics profession. 
 
In the presentation, the economists discussed were W.Ripley, E.Johnson, 
H.Moulton, and ?.Cunningham. 
 
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    posted to HES by Paul Wendt (coordinator of the Kress Seminar)