----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Hello HESers. A friend who is an economic geographer sent me the following recently and I offered to forward it to this list to see if anyone could help him out. Replies can be sent to me and I will forward them on to him. Thanks in advance. Steve Horwitz ****** I am currently researching the history of spontaneous industrial resource recovery. I am currently immersed in writings that were produced by the Society of Arts in London following the Great Exhibition of 1851. I came across a number of classical liberal characters who wrote very interesting things about the economics of recycling, although none of them would be labeled economists (they were rather economic journalists, chemists, engineers, etc.). After looking through a number of books on the history of economic thought, I haven't been able to find the name of any one of them in the index, except for Charles Babbage who was an early precursor. Knowing your interest in the history of economic ideas, I was wondering if you knew anybody who would label himself an expert on the history of British economic thought between, say, 1850 and 1900, or else if you would recommend any book on the topic. The character that I am really trying to track is one Peter Lund Simmonds who, from what I am able to tell, was one of the foremost economic journalists of Victorian England. He wrote a bunch of books on technical matters - such as waste recovery, a handbooks of commerce ("descriptive and statistical accounts" of the import and export of the UK, a 25 000 definition commercial dictionary of trade products, a couple of treatise on tropical agriculture and sea products, etc.) He was very prolific, but he always dedicated his books to President of Boards of Trade, Industry Associations, etc. He never quoted an economist in his work, but his work would have been of obvious relevance to economists. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]