----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- This may not be appropriate for this list as he was not much of a historian of economics, although some of his students are, but Don Lavoie of George Mason University passed away from cancer on November 6, at the age of 50. Originally a Sovietologist, then later a leader of the market process branch of the Austrian School, he had been interested in hermeneutics and post modern analysis in recent years. Barkley Rosser ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]