Dear Gonçalo: What you did so many years ago "in a burst of youthful energy" was so impressive. I'm so happy that you have continued to work on this. It really is a major contribution to history of economic thought. Congratulations and thank you. Ric Holt On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Goncalo Fonseca <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Revival of HET Website - announcement > > Dear friends, > > I am pleased to announce that the History of Economic Thought Website is > back. I am thankful for the assistance of the Institute for New Economic > Thinking (INET), which has supported its revival and made it possible. > > As many of you may know, the HET Website was constructed by myself > (Gonçalo Fonseca) in a burst of youthful energy, oh lord, many years ago > now. It was hosted for a long time on a faculty server at the New School > for Social Research. It subsequently jumped around through other servers, > and then went down for a while. Well, now it is back again, at a new URL > address: > > http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/ > > The HET website will be here for a while, so you can update your bookmarks. > > While it has been considerably revamped, its mission remains the same. > > The HET website is a repository of collected links and information on the > history of economic thought, from the ancient times until the modern day. > It is designed for students and the general public, who are interested in > learning about economics from a historical perspective. > > The HET website it not an online textbook nor a reference encyclopedia. I > like to think of it as a "link tank", pointing students and researchers to > online resources on economic theory. I have just organized these links in a > manner which is both entertaining and educational. > > The material is organized through three main navigation channels: (1) via > an Alphabetical Index of individual economist profiles, (2) via Schools of > Thought (loosely defined) and (3) via a series of Essays and Surveys on > specific topics. > > When I originally set it up, the available resources online for HET > material were relatively scarce, with a few invaluable depositories, such > as the McMaster Archive set up by Roderick Hay. Online materials have > greatly expanded since, with Googlebooks, Archive.org, Gallica, etc. The > new version of the HET Website incorporates materials from these new > sources. > > I am still in the process of reviewing and revising every page and > checking that every link works, that deprected links are updated or > removed, and new links added. It is still an on-going process, and some > stray old links have yet to be fixed, so I ask for patience. > > As always, I have maintained a strict policy of linking only to online > resources which are freely available to everyone, academic and > non-academic. I do not link to works behind paywalls or institutional > restrictions, nor to commercial sites, nor sites requiring complicated > registrations, etc. > > However, it has come to my attention (a little too late) that some online > archives have different IP-restrictions depending on country. Notably > Googlebooks seems to treat different parts of the world differently, so > that books that are available to Americans may not be viewable to Europeans > (it seems they have a 1872 memory barrier for European IPs, but a 1924 > barrier for US IPs and a 1885 barrier for Canadian IPs). The HET Website > was created in the US and is optimized for US IPs, and as a result some > non-US viewers may experience some frustratation. Nonetheless, rest > assured that if the link is here, then the book or article is freely > available to American IPs, and can be accessed by virtual network. Also > keep in mind that most of Googlebooks is now mirrored by Archive.org, which > doesn't seem to have country restrictions. We have begun (belatedly) to > link to these. But in the meantime, if you end up in a dead end on > Googleboooks, look up the same title on Archive.org, and it is almost > certain to be available there. > > Rather than give preference to a particular online source, and swamp you > with seas of blue, I have decided to pile the links to all the online > versions available via "codes" at the end of the title. e.g. > > - [bk] (or sometimes a page or volume number) refers to Googlebooks. > - [av] - Archive.org > - [bnf] - Gallica, at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France > - [js] - Jstor (note: I only link to the pre-1920 articles that they make > publicly available) > - [McM] - Rod Hay's McMaster archive > - [bris] - Tony Brewer's Bristol site > - [taieb] - Paulette Taieb's website > - [lib] - Library of Economics and Liberty at LibertyFund > - [mia] - Marxists Internet Archive > - [mis] - Mises Institute > - [moa] - Making of America database at Cornell & Michigan > - [eebo] - Early English books online at Michigan > - [hth] - Hathi Trust > - [cwls] - Cowles foundation papers > - [nber] - NBER papers archive > - [het] - a text we host ourselves > > and so on. This way better maximizes sources for an article or book (in > case you have a preference for one format or another). > > For the sake of scholars, I have made the extra effort to track down the > original facsimile version of an article or book. Where a book has > multiple editions, I have tried to find links to every edition available. > > Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new HET website. There are now over 1,000 > economist profiles, 100 schools of thought and some 50+ surveys of topics > with links to tens of thousands of online books and articles. There is > much more to come which is in the process of being completed, so keep > checking back. > > Once again, I'd like to thank the Institute for New Economic Thinking > (INET) for the support they have given to make this revival possible. > > Best regards, > > Gonçalo L. Fonseca > > [log in to unmask] > http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/ > >