----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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). ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]