I am just reading an unpublished paper from Gerald Jorland presented at the workshops "The coming into being and passing away of scientific objects" in Berlin last summer. His paper deals with value theories in economics (1776 - 1976). Here he mentions that Margaret Shabas was pondering why economics is so chary of creating new phenomena . Can anyone tell me which papers of Margaret Shabas could he mean? (He doesn't mention literature in this point.) As far as the object of economics consernd I find the birth of new economic disciplines also very interesting. In the epoch I have been working on at the moment, the turn of the centery in German economics, are "Betriebswirtschaftslehre" and "Weltwirtschaftslehre" (worldeconomics) such new disciplines. It would be nice to see developments in english-speaking world in the same period . I am glad to get any notes and/or suggestion on literature (also to the birth of that disciplines in Germany). Thank you in advance and Happy New Year, Agnes Miklos Illes