----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 
 
[Posted on behalf of Robert Dimand. - RBE] 
 
Canada's Harold Adams Innis was the non-US president of the  
Economic History Association and the American Economic  
Association, and the subject of a book by Robin Neill. Charles  
Kindleberger, in his autobiographical Life of an Economist, recalls  
pointing out to the AEA nominating committee that no Southerner,  
woman, or Canadian had ever been AEA president. As he  
expected, the AEA committee responded by deciding to choose a  
Canadian -- but Innis rather than Kindleberger's candidate, William  
A. Mackintosh.   
 
Robert W. Dimand 
Brock University 
 
 
------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ 
For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]