====================== HES POSTING ==================== Though I'm not at all sure it's the best book on this subject, and though I have an interest (that is, an essay of my own) in it, I'd suggest William J. Barber, ed., Economists and Higher Learning in the Nineteenth Century, Transaction Publishers (1993). It's a series of essays about how the discipline of economics became "institutionalized" in various American colleges and universities before 1900, and naturally encompasses a great deal of the history of American economic thought in this period. Hope this helps. Rich Adelstein Professor of Economics Wesleyan University email: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]