*THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS WORKING PAPER SERIES*

    ANNOUNCEMENT AND/OR REMINDER OF THE /FREE/ WORKING PAPER SERIES ON
    THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK'S (SSRN's) ECONOMIC RESEARCH
    NETWORK (ERN)


*ADVANTAGES*

  * A FREE AND OPEN FORUM /
    //+ /open to all interested parties at no cost to the user
    + accepts papers and abstracts in all areas of history of economics
    and related fields (anything that might interest historians of
    economics)

  * WIDE DISTRIBUTION FOR YOUR WORK
    + an opportunity to expose your work to a broad spectrum of scholars
    within and beyond the history-of-economics community
    + current Statistics:
          * 3,991 papers posted
          * mean downloads:  181 per paper
          * median downloads: 77 per paper

  * A CONVENIENT ARCHIVE
    + easy to upload your papers
    + easy download other scholar's papers
    + easy to check statistics of abstract views and downloads

  * EASY TO KEEP UP WITH CURRENT WORK
    + papers announced via the ERN History of Economics eJournal -- an
    e-mail "eJournal" with links to download abstracted papers

  * NO BARRIER TO CIRCULATION IN OTHER  SERIES OR SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION
    + despite the title "eJournal," this is simply an announcement of
    working paper abstracts
    + SSRN does not take copyright nor object to publication in other
    working paper series
    + posting to the SSRN website does not preclude to subsequent
    publication of papers in refereed journals (in fact, most journal
    articles were previously circulated in some working paper series)

*HOW TO SUBSCRIBE AND SUBMIT PAPERS*

  * GO TO /SSRN.com /AND CLICK ON /Subscribe /AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
  * LINK YOUR PAPER TO THE /ERN History of Economics eJournal/
    + follow links to /Economics Research Network
    + /go to , /ERN Subject Matter Journals
    + /check box on /History of Economics eJournal/


*MAXIMIZING YOUR VISIBILITY*

  * SUBMIT YOUR PAPER TO UP TO TWELVE (12) JOURNALS
    + for example, list a paper on the history of demand theory to
    various Microeconomics eJournals and to the  Philosophy and
    Methodology of Economics eJournal
    + experience shows that history authors receive many downloads from
    non-historians when papers are listed broadly
    + broad listing is good the individual author's visibility /and
    also/ is a public good that raises the  the visibility of the
    history of economics more generally in the wider profession


        Kevin D. Hoover
        Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
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        Steven G. Medema
        Co-Editor, ERN History of Economics Journal
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