----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- In reply to John Henry's remark about tracking the early history of development economics: Actually, this has been done, in Joseph's Remenyi's 1976 Duke Ph.D. dissertation "Core- demi-core interactions in Economics" which developed (rationally reconstructed) that history of development economics as a (modified) Lakatosian case study. His paper based on this appeared in HOPE in 1979, Vol 11.1:30-63. E. Roy Weintraub Duke University ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]