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Dear HESers:  
 
After a hiatus of several months, the HES guest editorials are back! 
 
The next message will contain Bert Mosselman's guest editorial 
"Reproduction and Scarcity -- Hidden Agenda of the 'Marginal 
Revolution'." Based on a paper forthcoming in The European Journal of the 
History of Economic Thought ("Reproduction and Scarcity: the Population 
Mechanism in Classicism and in the 'Jevonian Revolution'", Vol. 6, No. 1, 
Spring 1999), Mosselmans argues that the shift from classicism to 
neoclassicism in 19th-century Britain can be seen as a change from a 
reproductive environment with internal scarcity, as in Malthus's 
population mechanism, towards a non-reproductive environment with 
external scarcity, as in Jevons's theoretical and applied economic work.  
 
The discussion about the editorial will be archived both in the HES 
list archives and via a separate web site  
(http://www.eh.net/HisEcSoc/Resources/Editorials/Mosselmans/). The latter 
site will be especially useful for instructors who wish to assign the 
editorials for classroom reading -- students will have access to the 
editorials, the conversation emerging from them, and related links.  
 
There are several other editorials "in the works" for future months. We 
invite you to nominate individuals to write editorials (including 
yourself!), and/or to suggest topics. You can respond privately to Ross 
Emmett ([log in to unmask]). 
 
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