AMERICAN ECONOMICS INFORMATION NETWORK Mary Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford The network has established a list of interested individuals. Those signed up should receive this posting by regular mail. If you wish to sign up send your name, address, e-mail address and areas of interest to [log in to unmask] or to [log in to unmask] We have developed two themes that we hope will help advance the study of the history of American economics. The first theme is *The Transformation of American Economics: >From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism*. This theme is focused on the development of the highly formalised version of neoclassical economics that is now typical of the major US graduate schools and economics journals. The ascendency of this type of economics from the 1950s and 60s on, can be set against the background of the interwar period in American economics that was characterised by a pluralism of beliefs and approaches with no single dominant program. How and why formal neoclassicism developed and thrived in the US after the War is the question to be examined. The Second theme is *American Voices: Economic Discourse in America from Independence to 1950*. This theme directly attacks the issue of understanding American economics in its American context. We feel the time has come to elucidate an American history of American economics and to understand American economic thinking in relation to American economic, political, and cultural history. Much more has been done along these lines by historians than by historians of economics. We are asking for your reaction to these themes. We wish to solicit paper proposals on both themes for the 1996 HES conference organised by Malcolm Rutherford. In addition, we propose to adopt one of these themes for the 1997 HOPE conference which we shall be jointly organising. Please write or e-mail one of us with your reactions and firm or tentative proposals for either theme. We also welcome your suggestions of other scholars, particularly those outside of the usual HET circles (eg in History departments) who might be interested in these areas. Mary Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford