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THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY BULLETIN AND JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (1979–2023)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2024

José Edwards*
Affiliation:
Independent Scholar
Yann Giraud
Affiliation:
CY Cergy Paris Université, AGORA (EA 7392)
Ivan Ledezma
Affiliation:
Université de Bourgogne, LEDi (Laboratoire d’économie de Dijon – EA 7467).

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The History of Economics Society (HES) initiated the History of Economics Society Bulletin (HESB) in 1979. Discussed at the 1978 meetings of the HES, the HESB was first conceived of as something “less” than History of Political Economy (HOPE)—i.e., an academic journal with a defined editorial line—but also “more” than just a newsletter for HES members (Caldwell 2021; Vaughn, this issue). Edited by Karen E. Vaughn (1979 to 1983) and William O. Thweatt (1984 to 1989), the HESB began by publishing short notes and abstracts of papers presented at the annual meetings of the HES. Research articles (i.e., peer-reviewed documents) appeared for the first time in 1988 and book reviews in 1989. A year after, the HESB became the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET), a full-fledged society journal under the editorship of Donald Walker (1990 to 1998). First published directly by its editor and the HES, the JHET started producing four yearly issues in 1998 under contract with Carfax as publisher. Carfax was eventually purchased by Taylor & Francis (Medema, this issue), and a new contract was signed with Cambridge University Press, both during Steven Medema’s editorship (1999 to 2008).1

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HES History through JHET and Its Editors
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of History of Economics Society

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Footnotes

Earlier versions of this manuscript were presented at the Cercle d’épistemologie économique in Paris (October 2023) and the 51st Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society in Santiago, Chile (July 2024). We are thankful for comments by Annie Cot, Paul Dudenhefer, Stephen Meardon, Pedro Duarte, Dorian Julien, Philippe Fontaine, Loïc Charles, Steven Medema, and three anonymous referees. We are also grateful for the support of the New Initiatives Fund of the History of Economics Society (HES) to “The History of Economics Journal Database Complement 1969–2009” (Edwards and Martin 2019).

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