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[log in to unmask] (Ross B. Emmett)
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Fri Mar 31 17:18:41 2006
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        Kress Seminar in the 
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT 
 
        (meeting at Harvard) 
 
     The Kress Seminar is a regional seminar in the history of 
economic thought that has been meeting monthly during the 
academic year since Fall 1986. The 'Kress' name reflects our 
former affiliation with the Kress Library of 01de Economicks, now 
part of the Harvard Business School's special collections. We 
meet on the third Thursday evening of each month, September to 
May less December, in Littauer M16, a seminar room of the Harvard 
University economics department, 7:45-10:00 p.m. 
 
     Most Kress participants are college and university faculty 
members from Connecticut to New Hampshire, with paper presenters 
from New York to Maine. We are unaffiliated with the Harvard 
department, except for the meeting place. Because we are a 
geographically dispersed group, with several participants who 
travel long distances and rarely more than one from any college 
faculty, we do not follow the familiar pattern of departmental 
seminars. Thus the Thursday evening monthly meeting. F^^h session 
is composed of two presentations with separate discussion; there 
is occasionally a connection between the two, but that usually 
cannot be arranged. Papers are not available in advance. We now 
have no budget, so we are indebted to the New England pattern of 
many small colleges, and to the academic disposition to enjoy 
Harvard Square. (It is very enjoyable.) 
 
     "History of economic thought" should be construed broadly. 
The papers range from economic history to economic methodology, 
foundations of social theory, and social studies of the 
contemporary economics profession, with "regular" history of 
economic thought composing about 2/3 of the total. 
 
 
 
 
Kress Seminar in the History of Economic Thought 
c/o Paul Wendt 
64 Riverside St. #3 
Watertown, MA 02172-2652 
(617) 926-8253 
 
Ross B. Emmett, Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta 
CANADA   T4V 2R3   voice: (403) 679-1517   fax: (403) 679-1129 
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