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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 
 
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