=================== HES POSTING ======================= I came across the following article recently, and thought I would post notice of it here, since it will not appear in any of the usual indices that historians of economics use. The article is a Foucaultian genealogy of political economy at the end of the eighteenth century. Meuret, Denis. 1993. A political genealogy of political economy. In _Foucault's New Domains_, ed. Mike Gane and Terry Johnson, 49-74. London: Routledge. The essay begins: "To do the genealogy, rather than the history, of political economy involves attempting to understand how, at a given moment, it succeeded in organising the production of truth, rather than recounting its progress towards scientific rigour or the way in which it followed the development of the economy itself. To what Michel Foucault called a *savoir* and what Paul Veyne calls a 'programme of truth', genealogy does not pose the question of the truthfulness of what it says. By rediscovering how, against what other discourses, it succeeded in imposing itself, it addresses the question of the pertinence of the truth it constructs." Ross Ross B. Emmett Editor, HES and CIRLA-L Augustana University College Camrose, Alberta CANADA T4V 2R3 voice: (403) 679-1517 fax: (403) 679-1129 e-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~emmer ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]