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Call for nominations 
 
What are the most significant works in the "history of economics"  
during the past century?   
 
Nominations are welcome for inclusion on a list of the 20th  
century's most significant works on the history of economic  
thought. Please note that this will *not* be a list of the century's  
most significant works in economics. Rather, the purpose is to  
elicit nominations for those works which scholars in the history of  
economics consider significant 20th century contributions to their  
discipline. (Of course, a work that is significant in economic theory  
may also be significant to the history of economics, and hence  
could be nominated on those grounds!) 
 
Basically, we want to know what 20th century works have shaped  
or changed the way members of the discipline of the history of  
economics work and/or teach?   
 
Nominated works may include books, articles, dissertations,  
essays, etc. The eventual list may be sub-divided by these  
categories. Nominations may also include works outside the field  
of the history of economic thought which have, in the estimation of  
list members, had a formative influence on the field during the 20th  
century. 
 
Nominating works is easy: send a message to the HES list  
including a nomination of ONE work. Each nomination should  
include a complete bibliographic reference to the work, and an  
explanation of the work's significance. Explanations should be long  
enough to provide a sufficient justification for the work's inclusion,  
but not the length of a book/article review! Initially, please limit  
yourself to one nomination per category of work (let others  
contribute as well!).   
 
Discussion of nominated works is welcome, and list subscribers  
are welcome to submit additional explanations for works already  
nominated. In order to keep nominations and discussions separate,  
new prefices will be used on list messages related to this theme  
(see below).   
 
Please contribute! 
 
Here are the conditions under which nominations will be distributed  
by the moderator to the entire list: 
 
a) One nomination per message. Also, only one nomination in  
each category (book, article, dissertation, etc.) per subscriber.  
(The latter condition may be relaxed later.)   
 
b) If your message is the first to nominate a particular work, it must  
contain a full bibliographic citation and an explanation why it  
deserves nomination. Explanations should include a summary of  
the work's argument, and a justification for its significance.  
Nominations which are not complete will be sent back to the  
original sender for completion. The first *complete* new nomination  
of a work will be forwarded to the list. New nominations will appear  
with the prefix NOM.   
 
c) If you wish to add information, or provide a different explanation,  
to an already-nominated work, the moderator will consider posting  
the message. In this case, the additional information must be  
sufficient to warrant an extra message to the list. Messages  
containing additional info will appear with the prefix "Re: HES:  
NOM". This prefix will also be used for nominations received at  
about the same time as the first complete nomination of a work  
which contribute additional material to the explanation for a work's  
inclusion.   
 
d) If a debate over the relative merits of nominated works emerges,  
the moderator will spin off a separate DISC (several of these could  
run simultaneously). 
 
 
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