----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- I just put together a list of 2002 anniversaries to be posted on the links site of the "The European Society for the History of Economic Thought" (http://www.eshet-web.org/). Anyone who needs a reason to celebrate (or to write a newspaper article) could use one - or several - of the following excuses this year: 300 years ago Joseph Harris (1702-1764) was born, author of "An Essay upon Money and Coins". 250 years ago David Hume (1711-1776) published his "Political Discourses" (1752). 200 years ago, the Physiocrat Johann August Schrettwein (1731-1802), author of "Grundveste der Staaten, oder die politische Oekonomie" (1778) died; Henry Thornton (1760-1815) published "An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain" (1802), and the Proto-Marginalist Samuel Mountiford Longfield (1802-1884) was born. 150 years ago, Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) published "Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy" (1852); and William Forster Lloyd (1795-1852) died. 100 years ago, a number of important economists were born: Theodore W. Schultz (1902-1998), Fritz Machlup (1902-1983), Abraham Wald (1902-1950) and Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977). In the same year, 1902, Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) published his "Systemes socialistes", Werner Sombart (1863-1941) his "Der moderne Kapitalismus", and John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) published "Imperialism: A Study" (1902). 50 years ago, William J. Baumol published "The Transaction Demand for Cash: An Inventory Theoretic Approach" in the QJE (1952), and in the same year he published his thesis "Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State". In the same year, Gérard Debreu's "A Social Equilibrium Existence Theorem" got published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Other works that were published in 1952 are: James Edward Meade's (1907-1995) "A Geometry of International Trade"; Jacob Viner's (1892-1970) "International Trade and Economic Development"; Walter Eucken's (1891-1950) "Grundsaetze der Wirtschaftspolitik"; Fritz Machlup's (1902-1983) "The Economics of Seller's Competition"; John Kenneth Galbraith published "American Capitalism: The concept of Countervailing Power". 25 years ago we lost Oskar Morgenstern (1902-1977), Harry Gordon Johnson (1923-1977), and Jakob Marschak (1898-1977). The same year saw two important non-mainstream publications: Edmond Malinvaud's "The Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered" and Human P. Minsky's "The Financial Instability Hypothesis: An Interpretation of Keynes and an Alternative to 'Standard Theory'" (Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business, 1977), while Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979) and James E. Meade (1907-1995) received the Nobel Price in Economics for their contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements. A happy new year to you all, Thomas ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]