----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Engineering can be interpreted more widely than just civil engineering and there have been important interactions in the twentieth century. Some good starting points would be: (1) Philip Mirowski Machine Dreams; (2)Articles by Judy Klein and Warren Young in the HOPE Supplement, Toward a History of Applied Economics; (3) Mary Morgan "Economics" in The Cambridge History of Science Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences, Edited by Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross Roger Backhouse ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]