================= HES POSTING ================= [A message which Yuri T. mentions here, from Kiichiro Yagi, has been delayed in reaching the list, but will hopefully be sent sometime in the next couple of days.--RBE] Wieser, oh yes... Thanks to JP Schulz and Kiichiro Yagi for refreshing my memory. Following the link kindly sent by the author, I downloaded and read Kiichiro Yagi's very interesting paper on Wieser's "anonymous history of the mass". It can be found on http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yagi/recentworks.html. IMHO Tolstoy's place in the history of economic thought goes a little beyond indirect intellectual influences like that on Wieser. There are passages in *War and Peace* which sound rather Jevonian or Walrasian! However, the ideas I am referring to were really in the air in 1860s... Regards, Yuri Tulupenko P.S. I failed to introduce myself in my first posting - I teach history of economic thought at Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia. My research interest is in "incidental" pieces of economics in the writings of non-economists (not necessarily Tolstoy!) ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]