September 30, 2001

We have been having some trouble this year with our server (at one point, it was hijacked by hackers!), so some of you have probably experienced some difficulties in accessing the site.  E-mail access has also been a bit spotty, so we apologize to anybody whom we have not replied to. 

Things are back to normal now and hopefully there will be fewer problems in the future.  We are looking around for a more stable solution, which means spending some $ which we do not have.  If you would like to make a donation to help keep this site alive and running smoothly, please, please do so. 

The search engine should be up and running now.  If you experience any difficulties, please let us know.

We have compiled a separate list of all the electronic texts that are located on our server.  Some of the new texts include the following: 

• Several texts by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, including "The Hedonical Calculus" (1879, Mind),  "The Rationale of Exchange" (1884, JRRS), "La théorie mathématique de l'offre et de la demande et le coût de production" (1891, RdEP).  The most remarkable addition has been the complete three volumes of F.Y. Edgeworth's Papers Relating to Political Economy (1925).  

• Several classic reviews of books, including Alfred Marshall's "Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics" (1881, Academy), F.Y. Edgeworth's " Review of Walras's Élements" (1889, Nature), L. v. Bortkiewicz's "Review of Walras's Élements" (1890, RdEP).  Also P.H. Wicksteed's evaluation of "Jevons's Economic Work" (1905, EJ) and his "Review of Pareto's Manuale" (1906, EJ).  The highlight of this collection is perhaps Joseph Bertrand's famous "Théorie de Richesses: review of Walras and Cournot"(1883, Journal des Savants).

• Thanks are due to Prof. Frederic Lee (of University of Missouri - Kansas City) for providing the electronic format of Piero Sraffa's "On the Relations Between Costs and Quantities Produced", (1925, Annali di Economia)

• We have scoured the Gallica website (http://gallica.bnf.fr/) of the Bibliothèque nationale de France for individual articles of interest that were buried deep in other publications and journals and thus rather difficult to find and retrieve.  We have extracted some of these and mirrored them separately here for easier accessibility. These includes some of the ones already mentioned above (e.g. Edgeworth's Papers and Bertrand's review) as well as the following classics: Thomas de Quincey's "Measure of Value", "Malthusian Population Doctrine" and "Services of Mr. Ricardo", all from the London Magazine (1823-4), Auguste Walras's "Considérations sur la mesure de la valeur,  Part 1, Part 2" (1836, Rev Mensuelle EP), Augustin Cournot's "Mémoire sur les applications du calcul des chances" (1838, JMathPA) and Vilfredo Pareto's "L'Italie économique" (1891, Rev Deux-Mondes).  Numerous minor notices and reviews of classic texts have also been extracted from Gallica and mirrored here.  See the list of all the electronic texts for more details.

• All this, of course, is in addition to a whole series of new links forged deep into other online text archives, such as Roderick Hay's McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought, the Gallica website of the Bibliothèque National de France, the "Making of America" databases (MOA-Cornell and MOA-Michigan),  the Cowles Discussion Papers Reprints at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org and the Library of Economics and Liberty at the Liberty Fund.  

September 5, 2000

New Texts have been added to the site:

•  Leon Walras's "Économique et Méchanique" (1909, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sc. Nat.) is available in PDF Format. (thanks to Paulette Taieb for proof-reading and corrections).

•  William Stanley Jevons's "Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics" (1881, Mind) is available in HTML (also in PDF Format).

 June 20, 2000

• Announcement: the annual HETSA (History of Economic Thought Society of
  Australia) conference is being held at Sydney University on July 5-
  7 2000.  Further details are available at http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/econ/hetsa/index.htm
  

June 2, 2000

• Announcement: Prof. William S. Milberg of the New School University will be conducting an online summer course on the "Historical Foundations of Political Economy" from June 5th to August 4th.  Classes begin June 12th.  Registration is open until June 16th.  Open to everyone, so sign up now! 

• Announcement: Conference on Don Patinkin at Centre Walras-Pareto at University of Lausanne, 20-22 September 2001.  See announcement details.
  

May 20, 2000

• Announcement: (from Jürgen Backhaus) 14th Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences: "Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi (1817-1771).", 22-24 June 2001. Click here to download announcement (MS Word).  For more information, contact Jürgen Backhaus via email: s.roggen@algec.unimaas.nl or email: f.masthoff@berfin.unimaas.nl  

• From  Lluis Argemí: Last December, in Barcelona, was created the AIHPE (Asociación Ibérica de Historia del Pensamiento económico), including both portuguese and spanish scholars. The coordination, by now is made in Barcelona, and in the near future, in Porto. The coordination is made by E. Lluch (U. of Barcelona), J. Reeder (U. Complutense of Madrid), J. L. Cardoso (Technical U. of Lisbon), A. Almodovar (U. of Porto) and Ll. Argemí (U. of Barcelona). For information, in the address argemi@eco.ub.es.

• Also:  Lluis Argemí: has been working lately on a CD Rom in HET, for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, an open University, or a virtual University via web pages. The result is already available for their students, and in some weeks, it will be commercially available. The title is Història del pensament econòmic, Ed. UOC-Lectus Vergara. 1999.If somebody is interested, they can contact him at the same address. (argemi@eco.ub.es)
  

May 10, 2000

The following electronic texts have been added to this site:

• Philip H. Wicksteed's (1894) An Essay on the Co-ordination of the Laws of Distribution. (PDF)

• A.W. Flux (1894) "Review of Wicksteed's Essay", Economic Journal (PDF)

• Frank P. Ramsey's "Truth and Probability" (1926), "Further Considerations" (1928) &  "Probability and Partial Belief" (1929) (from Ramsey's Foundations of Mathematics, 1931) (PDF)

• Jacob Viner (1950) A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training. (HTML, also PDF)

Also, we have set up a page on the "Negro Question" Debate between Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill. The following texts are included:

• Thomas Carlyle (1831) "Characteristics", Edinburgh Review

• Thomas Carlyle (1849) "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question", Fraser's Magazine

• Thomas Carlyle (1850) Latter-Day Pamphlets.(I-VI)

• John Stuart Mill (1850) "The Negro Question", Fraser's Magazine

• Thomas Carlyle (1853) Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question

• Thomas Carlyle (1867) "Shooting Niagara -- And After?", Macmillan's Magazine

Also: we have spent a good while trying to obtain permission for the borrowed images for this website.  With a few exceptions, the response was excellent.  Our deepest thanks to all of those who graciously granted it. They are noted on our references page.

November 5, 1999

  Well, we're back up at long last! 

As you might notice, we are now at a new server at the New School.  We will be here for a while, so please bookmark this site.

Apparently, in the interim of our transfer here, there were a few mirror sites that popped up elsewhere based on our old site.  Those sites are not connected with us.   This is the new site.

Thank you for all your encouraging e-mails.  We have been a bit time-constrained lately, so we apologize for not having answered them all. 

You will notice some changes. First of all, the facelift.  We hope this site is a bit better-looking than the last. Secondly, you will find that some of the content has changed.  We have done a few corrections, but all that is still very much delayed.  There are also still many pages being processed and these will be up in due course.

Naturally, we are always looking for comments and contributions, so please do not hesitate to contact us at het@cepa.newschool.edu

We'll be putting up a search engine and a guest forum soon, so please check us out again.   Please do not forget to read the disclaimer.  Click here for introduction.

Cheers!

Gonçalo L. Fonseca

Leanne Ussher

P.S. - This new server is "case-sensitive".  We have attempted to change the URLs of all the pages into small letters.  If, for some reason, a link does not seem to work, check if it accidentally retained capital letters somewhere in the URL.   To fix it, just input it in again in the browser address window and change all the capital letters into small letters.