Let me add my voice to those who congratulated Gonçalo. He was a pioneer,
doing a labour of love that was academically not rewarded, save for the
recognition and respect  of the HET community.

As someone who had used extensively the HET website for my teaching at the
early days a belated gratitude is in order. Today with all the wealth of
resources availble, it is difficult to appreciate how important that site
was at that time. Together with the late Rod Hay's depository of texts they
were the first sites to turn to for teaching and research.

It was astonishing that this was the work of a single man.
I am happy that he is back.

Best


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Goncalo Fonseca <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Revival of HET Website - announcement
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the History of Economic Thought Website is
> back.  I am thankful for the assistance of the Institute for New Economic
> Thinking (INET), which has supported its revival and made it possible.
>
> As many of you may know, the HET Website was constructed by myself
> (Gonçalo Fonseca) in a burst of youthful energy, oh lord, many years ago
> now. It was hosted for a long time on a faculty server at the New School
> for Social Research.  It subsequently jumped around through other servers,
> and then went down for a while. Well, now it is back again, at a new URL
> address:
>
> http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/
>
> The HET website will be here for a while, so you can update your bookmarks.
>
> While it has been considerably revamped, its mission remains the same.
>
> The HET website is a repository of collected links and information on the
> history of economic thought, from the ancient times until the modern day.
> It is designed for students and the general public, who are interested in
> learning about economics from a historical perspective.
>
> The HET website it not an online textbook nor a reference encyclopedia. I
> like to think of it as a "link tank", pointing students and researchers to
> online resources on economic theory. I have just organized these links in a
> manner which is both entertaining and educational.
>
> The material is organized through three main navigation channels: (1) via
> an Alphabetical Index of individual economist profiles, (2) via Schools of
> Thought (loosely defined) and (3) via a series of Essays and Surveys on
> specific topics.
>
> When I originally set it up, the available resources online for HET
> material were relatively scarce, with a few invaluable depositories, such
> as the McMaster Archive set up by Roderick Hay.  Online materials have
> greatly expanded since, with Googlebooks, Archive.org, Gallica, etc.  The
> new version of the HET Website incorporates materials from these new
> sources.
>
> I am still in the process of reviewing and revising every page and
> checking that every link works, that deprected links are updated or
> removed, and new links added.  It is still an on-going process, and some
> stray old links have yet to be fixed, so I ask for patience.
>
> As always, I have maintained a strict policy of linking only to online
> resources which are freely available to everyone, academic and
> non-academic.  I do not link to works behind paywalls or institutional
> restrictions, nor to commercial sites, nor sites requiring complicated
> registrations, etc.
>
> However, it has come to my attention (a little too late) that some online
> archives have different IP-restrictions depending on country.  Notably
> Googlebooks seems to treat different parts of the world differently, so
> that books that are available to Americans may not be viewable to Europeans
> (it seems they have a 1872 memory barrier for European IPs, but a 1924
> barrier for US IPs and a 1885 barrier for Canadian IPs).  The HET Website
> was created in the US and is optimized for US IPs, and as a result some
> non-US viewers may experience some frustratation.  Nonetheless, rest
> assured that if the link is here, then the book or article is freely
> available to American IPs, and can be accessed by virtual network.  Also
> keep in mind that most of Googlebooks is now mirrored by Archive.org, which
> doesn't seem to have country restrictions. We have begun (belatedly) to
> link to these.  But in the meantime, if you end up in a dead end on
> Googleboooks, look up the same title on Archive.org, and it is almost
> certain to be available there.
>
> Rather than give preference to a particular online source, and swamp you
> with seas of blue, I have decided to pile the links to all the online
> versions available via "codes" at the end of the title. e.g.
>
> - [bk] (or sometimes a page or volume number) refers to Googlebooks.
> - [av] - Archive.org
> - [bnf] - Gallica, at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
> - [js] - Jstor (note: I only link to the pre-1920 articles that they make
> publicly available)
> - [McM] - Rod Hay's McMaster archive
> - [bris] - Tony Brewer's Bristol site
> - [taieb] - Paulette Taieb's website
> - [lib] - Library of Economics and Liberty at LibertyFund
> - [mia] - Marxists Internet Archive
> - [mis] - Mises Institute
> - [moa] - Making of America database at Cornell & Michigan
> - [eebo] - Early English books online at Michigan
> - [hth] - Hathi Trust
> - [cwls] - Cowles foundation papers
> - [nber] - NBER papers archive
> - [het] - a text we host ourselves
>
> and so on.  This way better maximizes sources for an article or book (in
> case you have a preference for one format or another).
>
> For the sake of scholars, I have made the extra effort to track down the
> original facsimile version  of an article or book.  Where a book has
> multiple editions, I have tried to find links to every edition available.
>
> Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new HET website. There are now over 1,000
> economist profiles, 100 schools of thought and some 50+ surveys of topics
> with links to tens of thousands of online books and articles.  There is
> much more to come which is in the process of being completed, so keep
> checking back.
>
> Once again, I'd like to thank the Institute for New Economic Thinking
> (INET) for the support they have given to make this revival possible.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gonçalo L. Fonseca
>
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