It is with great sadness that I inform you that H. Scott Gordon passed away on May 17th. Scott was a Professor in both the Department of Economics and the Department
of the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University for many years. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1924. He began his career at Carleton University (then Carleton College) in Ottawa and organized the Economics Department there in 1948.
Later, while he was at Indiana, he would return to Canada during the summer to teach the history of economic thought at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Although Scott's most well-known research was his 1954 JPE paper "The Economic Theory of a Common-Property
Resource: The Fishery," he spent most of his career teaching and writing in the history and philosophy of economics, including the books
Welfare, Justice, and Freedom (1980), The History and Philosophy of Social Science
(1991), and Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today
(2002), as well as numerous journal articles on a wide range of historical and philosophical topics (many published in the JPE). Scott was an important teacher and mentor to many people – both economists and philosophers – who went on to participate in
the literature and the professional organizations of the history and philosophy of economics, including, but certainly not limited to, Margaret Schabas, Robert Leonard, Harold Kincaid, and Wade Hands. He was profoundly appreciated and will be long remembered.
D. Wade Hands
Department of Economics
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416
D. Wade Hands
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