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HESsians, 
 
What do we know about local economics societies and other settings for 
public or semi-public economics lectures?  (I am thinking of late 19c 
USAmerica but there are other possibilities.) 
 
The Connecticut Valley Economics Association was contemporary to the early 
years of the AEA and sponsored a series in Springfield.  J.B.Clark and 
Franklin Giddings were the local bigwigs, both among the dozen organizers 
and officeholders of the early AEA, although Giddings was not really  
famous yet. 
 
Hull House --the settlement house founded by Jane Addams-- sponsored a 
series in Chicago.  I suppose that many of the participants would be 
called "social workers" today, but others would be called "social 
scientists", and the distinction is anachronistic. 
 
Do modern scholars have the public programs of such "local seminars" (as I 
call them)?  Has anyone attempted a roster: Ct. Valley in Springfield, 
Hull House in Chicago, and so on, and on?  Do we know whether supposedly 
universal themes were featured, such as Monopoly, Socialism, and Land 
Value (I'm guessing)?  How many of the themes of major academic papers  
of the 1880s-90s were tried by the authors in such public series? 
 
----Paul 
 
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA 
HES asst.editor 
 
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