----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- US historians of economics should know that the US Federal Office for Human Research Protections has just ruled that oral histories and similar interviews do not fall under the requirements for institutional review for research on human subjects, as previously they appeared to so fall. The details are at http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/10/2003102101n.htm E. Roy Weintraub Presdident, HES ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]