----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- In his review of Steven Medema and Warren Samuels, editors, _Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory_, Roger Frantz writes: >Most economists turn their attention to the history of economics during a >later part of their careers. My experience is that this is what my colleagues believe to be true, but is it actually true? It seems to me that a lot of our leading lights in HES are older, but they have also being at for a long time. And the HES meetings seem to have a large number of younger scholars. Is there any more systematic evidence on this point? Kevin Hoover ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]