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Emerging Learned Societies: Economic Ideas in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

James P. Henderson
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I found preparing this presidential address a much greater challenge than I had anticipated. After much deliberation, I decided to explore the historical roots of what we are doing now. The History of Economics Society, like other learned societies, holds an annual conference in different cities; members present papers which are discussed; and the Society sponsors a specialist journal—The Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Why? Where did this tradition begin? I turned to several historians of science—I. Bernard Cohen, Thomas S. Kuhn, Richard Yeo, and Ian Hacking—for some background.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Fall 1996 , pp. 186 - 206
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