----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Roger Backhouse's comments about the ability to read French (or German) is probably also true for the US. For instance, earlier volumes of US journals like the AER and QJE are full of untranslated quotations and reviews of books published in French (or German). As to Walras more specifically, note for instance that already the very first issue of the Harvard-based Quarterly Journal of Economics (October 1886) contains a short piece under Notes and Memoranda entitled "Silver as a regulator of prices (p. 81), which starts: "M. Leon Walras, professor at the Academy of Lausanne, and well known as the leading advocate and student of the mathematical theory of political economy ...." Irving Fisher pointed out that he had read Walras. Thomas Moser ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]