----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [This question was posed on the Eh.Net ASK THE PROF service. I hope someone on the list can help. - BE] I've just finished reading "A Discourse of the Commonweal of This Realm of England", attr. Thomas Smith, first published in 1581 and since edited by Mary Dewar (University Press of Virginia for The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1969). HET is not my major field, but this text struck me as fascinating and Thomas Smith as a "precursor" in more than one of his ideas. I've thus been surprised not to find anything at all on Thomas Smith as an economic thinker (though there is a biography, also by Dewar). Since, as I say, I'm not habitually a HET researcher, perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. Suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]