----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Announcing plans for a Guide to the History of Economics Over the next several months we as editors will arrange for the preparation of a Guide to the History of Economics to be published by Blackwell's and intended not simply for our fellow historians but, in the first place, for mainstream practitioners of the economics discipline. In constructing the Guide we will not hold to the conventional temporal sequence, focus on great personages, or attend to schools of economic thought. Rather we will identify a range of questions that are today exercising the contemporary mainstream discipline and subdisciplines and attempt to demonstrate that an historical treatment of these questions may be illuminating to all concerned. If we are successful the Guide should be useful in classes and research programs across the discipline. We hope in this way to construct a bridge between the history of economics and the larger economics profession in which it is embedded. We expect also to identify a range of exciting research topics of present day relevance on which historians of economics may engage themselves in this project or elsewhere. We invite our colleagues to consider joining us in this endeavor. If you are interested please contact us by email or other means with suggestions and comments. We would like to remain in close and continuing contact with contributors to the Guide and to bring them together here at Duke and at various professional meetings that will take place over the next couple of years. Neil B. DeMarchi [log in to unmask] Craufurd D. W. Goodwin [log in to unmask] E. Roy Weintraub [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]