At the HES Meeting just ended in Tacoma, the following awards for Distinguished Fellows of
the History of Economics Society were presented:
  
Peter Groenewegen  
  
Peter Groenewegen, Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney,   
has published more than fifty journal articles since 1967, and more   
than sixty chapters in books from 1977. His books range from his   
edited translations of Turgot in 1977, to an Australian public   
finance textbook in three editions in 1979, to a 1990 history of   
Australian economics with Bruce McFarlane.  And of course we have his   
splendid and definitive 1995 biography of Alfred Marshall, a work   
that honors both Marshall and the Marshallian Cambridge tradition.   
His colleagues and students understand and appreciate his importance   
to the history of economics community in Australia. He has been   
mentor, facilitator, and cheerleader for the history of economics for   
many years, and has embodied the best characteristics of serious   
scholarship in our discipline.   
  
Groenewegen's broad intellectual interests extend to his work in   
other subdisciplines, as he contributed four tax monographs from 1976   
to 1985, and edited or co-edited a further ten books between 1983 and   
2001. From 1982 to 2000 he also edited (some of these cases involving   
also translation) nine numbers in his Reprints of Economic Classics   
series of important and neglected writings from the history of   
economics, all with scholarly introductions and extensive editorial   
notes. Finally, there are a number of contributions by Groenewegen to   
reference works, of which the most significant are his twenty-six   
entries in The New Palgrave. In 2002 he published his own three   
volume collection of his essays in the history of economics.  
Peter Groenewegen has made extensive contributions to institutional   
organizations of various scholarly communities quite apart from his   
work in the history of economics. He served as editor of Economic   
Papers and as President of the History of Economic Thought Society of   
Australia from 1981 to 1989. Groenewegen was elected a Fellow of the   
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1983, and has been   
honoured internationally as a foreign or corresponding member of   
Dutch, Italian and French academic societies.   
  
It is with great pleasure that we name Peter Groenewegen a   
Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.  
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Takashi Negishi  
  
Takashi Negishi, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, has   
played a vital role in bridging the modern divide between economists   
and historians of economics. He has created a path for non-historians   
of economics, especially economic theorists, to enter a study of the   
history of economics, particularly on the topics of classical   
economics, Marxian economics, neoclassical economics and Keynesian   
economics.   
  
Takashi Negishi has enhanced the status of the history of economics   
in the international community of economists. For example, he managed   
to organize the very first session in the World Congress of the   
International Economic Association (IEA) in Moscow in 1993, when he   
was a member of its Executive Committee. Since then every IEA World   
Congress has had a couple of sessions on the history of economics and   
has thus provided an opportunity not only for internationally-active   
scholars but also for local scholars and students to communicate and   
exchange their ideas.   
  
In the early 1980s, Professor Negishi began to publish articles and   
books on the results of his serious study of the history of economic   
theory. The first of his books to reach a wide public audience was   
written in Japanese, but after 1985 he published more than forty   
outstanding articles, and several books including his 1985 Economic   
Theories in a Non-Walrasian Tradition, his 1989 History of Economic   
Theory, and his 2001 Developments of International Trade Theory. He   
became a member of the Japanese Society of the History of Economic   
Thought, which has both the longest history and the largest number of   
members in the world, and served as its President in 1997-99. He also   
served as the President of the Econometric Society in 1993 and   
delivered a Presidential address entitled "Great economists   
misinterpreted", in which he spoke to an audience of active   
econometricians about Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Alfred Marshall   
and emphasized the importance of an accurate knowledge of the history   
of economics in the study of economic theory.  
  
His study of the history of economics has encouraged his colleagues,   
students and friends, as well as a much larger community, to see that   
a wide and liberal historical study of economics can enrich the   
discipline of economics.  
   
We are delighted to name Takashi Negishi a Distinguished Fellow of   
the History of Economics Society.  
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A list of Distinguished Fellows of the HES is available at    
http://eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/fellows.shtml  
  
E. Roy Weintraub