It is indeed a sad day. He encouraged me and I found his work very inspiring. When the below message reached me I was working on a paper with his Turgot edition and his book 
on Beccaria, Smith and Turgot on my desk. I had always in mind his papers as models. I still remember a day when I was excited by a remark about Smith and Turgot and then found it in 
a paper by him. 


> Le 8 mai 2018 à 14:00, Alexander Millmow <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
> 
> Colleagues
> It was announced earlier today by Tony Aspromourgos  that Peter Groenewegen, the doyen of  historians of economic thought in this country and beyond, had died on the 4 May in Sydney, Australia. His beloved wife, Eileen, had died the  day before after Peter had spent the last five or so years caring for her. Consequently Peter had not been to recent HET conferences because of Eileen's illness. He was greatly missed at those gatherings here and abroad.
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> Peter  was an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Sydney. He was one of the original six founders of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia established in 1981.
> Appropriately, he was made one of the  Distinguished Fellows of that Society. In 2010  he was also a Distinguished fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.  
> The citation for that latter award written by Tony Aspromourgos  appeared in the Economic Record 87( 277):335-41.
> A bibliography of his major works ranging from classical economics, Alfred Marshall to his work on public finance is listed there.
>  An interview with Peter Groenewegen conducted by Brian Dollery  appeared in the  History of Economics  Review  in 2002.
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>    Rest in Peace Peter Groenewegen 13/2/1939-4/5/2018
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> Kind regards
> 
> Alex Millmow
> 
> Associate Professor in Economics
> Federation Business School
> and
> President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia