I leave it to list members to track down the particular snippet (supposedly 6 snippets on Youtube - I have a multi-region DVD player and am avid fan) but JHET gets a mention in this particular episode of New Tricks (jolly good series by the way - will Brits step to the plate and vouch for my claim?).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3pXWmQOACE

A warning: One character is sufficiently scurrilous to mockingly refer to JHET as the Journal of the History of Turnips.

On the basis of my interaction with Warren (very limited alas) I'd wager he'd have smiled. 






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From: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Anthony Waterman [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [SHOE] RIP, Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)

The graduate students at the University of Manitoba had organised a
grand conference on Marx with lavish funding. The keynote speaker was a
famous author from the New School of Social Research and he was to get
an honorarium of $3,000. Among the supporting cast of visiting speakers
was Warren Samuels. He was to receive $500. Our keynote speaker
delivered an ill-connected sequence of platitudes, evidently concocted
on the flight from New York to Winnipeg.  Samuels, who never despised
anyone merely because he was Canadian, gave us a carefully constructed
paper, lucid, scholarly and relevant -- perhaps the best of the entire
conference. His performance on that occasion was typical of him.

Anthony Waterman


On 18/08/2011 2:23 PM, Scott V Parris wrote:
> My appreciation of economics, no less than the history of economic thought,
> took a giant step forward when I first began to interact with Warren
> Samuels at the History of Economics Society meetings in 1991. Over the
> years it became abundantly clear that I would not adequately perform my job
> as economics editor at Cambridge University Press until I had found a
> substantive way to invite Warren to make a contribution to the economics
> list. It was the Press's good fortune to have Warren agree to revise a set
> of essays on the invisible hand for publication, ably aided by Marianne
> Johnson and William Perry. The essays will appear in September. I trust it
> will serve as a testament to Warren's enormous intellectual and analytical
> gifts that he shared so unstintingly.
>
> Scott Parris
> Senior Editor, Economics and Finance
> Cambridge University Press, New York
>
>
>
> From: "Mr. e"<[log in to unmask]>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Date: 08/18/2011 12:45 PM
> Subject:      Re: [SHOE] RIP, Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
> Sent by:      Societies for the History of Economics<[log in to unmask]>
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>
>
> The field of the history of economic thought has seen many leaders come and
> go, but few have become institutions … Warren Samuels was, is, and always
> will be an institution.  His breath of knowledge and his depth of heart
> have been an inspiration to those ever so many whom he encouraged and
> nurtured during his many years.  I count myself as blessed to have been in
> that number.
>
>                                 Jerry Evensky
>
> Jerry Evensky
> Professor of Economics
> Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence
> Syracuse University
>
> From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Ross Emmett
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:13 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SHOE] RIP, Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
>
> Warren Samuels passed away yesterday at his home in Gainesville, Florida.
> Warren was an eminent historian of economic thought, whose work ranged
> across the field’s breadth. His first published works in the field were a
> pair of articles on the physiocratic system (published in the Quarterly
> Journal of Economics) that served to reshape thinking about the
> physiocratic view of the economic role of the state. On the other end of
> the time spectrum, he was a pioneer in doing and encouraging work on the
> history of post-war economics. This breadth of scholarship is exemplified
> nicely in the book that he completed not long before his death, Erasing the
> Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misguided Concept in Economics,
> which was brought to completion with the assistance of Marianne Johnson and
> will be released by Cambridge University Press in September. We’ve suffered
> a great loss as an intellectual community in his passing.
>
> Many of you knew Warren well, so there is no need to rehearse at length his
> publications or his forays into many other areas of economics. Warren was
> one of the first historians of economics to treat the history of economics
> as a branch of intellectual history. This was, for him, a part of the
> larger intellectual conversation about the role of governments and markets
> in modern society that was his lifelong pursuit. His well-known studies of
> policy in classical economics (The Classical Theory of Economic Policy) and
> in Pareto (Pareto on Policy) were major contributions to that discussion.
> His perspective had a significant effect on the students who studied with
> him over the years, and on those of us who were the recipients of his
> comments and advice at conferences and via correspondence.
>
>  From the outset of his career, Warren recognized the importance to the
> intellectual historian of correspondence, course notes, unpublished
> manuscripts, public lectures, etc. What we now collectively refer to as
> archival materials. Not only did he promote the use of these materials in
> historical research, but he also amassed an extensive personal collection
> of these materials, which he began to publish in 1989 in archival
> supplements to Research in the History of Economic Thought&  Methodology.
> The very first supplement contained the notes he had obtained from
> economist Robert L. Hale and Sinologist Homer H. Dubs of John Dewey’s
> course on Moral and Political Philosophy at Columbia University. The second
> supplement contains the only authorized publication of Frank Knight’s
> infamous lecture on “The Case for Communism.” Warren and George Stigler
> went back and forth for some time regarding the publication of that piece!
> Dewey and Knight were, perhaps not surprisingly, two of Warren’s
> intellectual heros. The materials he amassed will continue to be published
> in the research annual for many years to come. His collection of
> photographs of economists is already available online from the Center for
> the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
>
> Warren was also a tireless editor of volumes that touched upon almost any
> aspect of his wider interests. I have lined up on my bookshelf over 80
> volumes that he edited on the history of economics, economic methodology,
> or recent economic thought. Mine is probably not a complete set! All of
> these were undertaken to encourage scholarship in areas that interested him
> (and, by extension, which he thought would interest others). Many of them
> are also the means by which he encouraged the work of young scholars.
>
> We all experienced his generosity to students, young scholars and anyone
> else who wanted to join the great conversation. His goal and passion was to
> broaden and enrich that conversation, and he was as happy to engage a young
> scholar as he was a Nobel laureate. To that end, he and Sylvia made a
> substantial contribution to the History of Economics Society to endow its
> Young Scholars program.
>
> Among the many professional societies to which he belonged, the History of
> Economics Society was always the one closest to Warren’s heart. He was a
> founding member of the Society, and served as its 8th President. The
> Society honored him in 1997 with its Distinguished Fellow award; two years
> earlier he was the recipient of the Association for Evolutionary Economics
> Veblen-Commons Award. He was the long-time editor of the Journal of
> Economic Issues and the founding editor of Research in the History of
> Economic Thought&  Methodology.
>
> I wish to acknowledge the helpful advice I received from Jeff Biddle,
> Marianne Johnson and Steve Medema.