2009 History of Economics Society Annual Meeting: The 2009 annual conference of the History of Economics Society will be held June 26–29, at the University of Colorado Denver. For more information, please consult the HES website at www.historyofeconomics.org, or email Steven G. Medema, HES President-Elect at hes2009@ucdenver.edu

Conference Announcement—HES at the 2009 ASSA Meetings: The History of Economics Society will sponsor four sessions at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meetings, January 3–5, 2009, in San Francisco. For session information, please consult the HES website (www.historyofeconomics.org) or the American Economic Association website (www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/).

Conference Announcement—2008 UK History of Economic Thought Conference: The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, over September 3–5. For further information, please contact the conference organizer, Steven G. Medema, by email at steven.medema@ucdenver.edu.

Conference Announcement—Public Goods, Externalities, Public Decision Making: A Perspective from the History of Economic Thought: A conference on Public Goods, Externalities, Public Decision Making: A Perspective from the History of Economic Thought will be held in Paris, France, from December 11–13, 2008. The conference will take place at ERMES and Panthéon-Assas University, and the keynote speaker will be Sir Alan Peacock. For further information, please contact Professor Gilbert Faccarello by email at gilbert.faccarello@u-paris2.fr.

Conference Announcement—JSHET/ESHET Joint Conference: The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) in cooperation with the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) have organized a joint conference on “The Dissemination of Economic Ideas.” The conference will be held March 21–22, 2009, in Tokyo and March 24, 2009, in Kyoto, Japan. For further information, please contact Tamotsu Nishizawa (nisizawa@ier.hit-u.ac.jp) and Heinz D. Kurz (heinz.kurz@uni-graz.at).

Conference Announcement—ESHET 2009: The 2009 meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought will be held April 23–26 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The theme of the conference will be “Technical Change and Economic Development,” and Robert Solow will be one of the keynote speakers. Information about the conference, including the call for papers, will be posted on the ESHET web site (www.eshet.net) in due course.

HES History of Economics Working Papers on SSRN: The HES sponsors the History of Economics Abstracts (an email abstracting journal distributed by the Economics Research Network of the Social Sciences Research Network), which promotes communication among scholars interested in all aspects of the history of economic thought. Abstracts of both working papers and accepted papers are published. Kevin Hoover, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Duke University is serving as editor. Work related to all periods and to any schools of economic thought is welcome, as is work that situates economics in wider intellectual and cultural contexts or relates it to other disciplines. Work related to the history of closely cognate disciplines (e.g., statistics with economic applications or economic sociology) is also accepted. Essentially, any work that touches the history of economics as a discipline or that would be of interest to scholars working in such an area is encouraged. To submit your research to SSRN, log in to the SSRN User HeadQuarters, http://hq.ssrn.com, and click on the My Papers link on the left menu, and then click on Start New Submission at the top of the page.