======================= HES POSTING ================= Roger Middleton, Keith Tribe and I are writing a paper on quantitative work in the history of economic thought. By this we mean quantitative analysis of what is going on in the subject, such as analysing destinations of graduates from various universities, statistical analysis of citations and publications. As part of this paper, we would like to prepare a bibliography of such work. Our view is that quite a lot of such work has been done, but it is scattered around many places. One of our aims in the paper is to list such work, and provide a general discussions of the possibilities and problems with it. In addition we are hoping to further a discussion of how co-operation can be encouraged so that people do not end up repeating work that has been done by someone else. We would welcome suggestions of material that should be included in such a bibliography. If you have written such papers that we may not know about, or if work of which we will have seen only a preliminary version has since (or will be) published, we would like to know about it. Related to this, does anyone know the source of the quotation, that we associate with Viner, "Economics is what economists do"? Roger Backhouse -------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger E. Backhouse [log in to unmask] Department of Economics University of Birmingham Edgbaston Phone: 0121 414 6655/+44 121 414 6655 Birmingham B15 2TT UK Fax: 0121 414 7377/+44 121 414 7377 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]