Craufurd Goodwin and History of Political Economy

History of Political Economy—HOPE to its friends—the first journal entirely devoted to the history of economics, was founded at Duke University in 1969—a little over forty years ago. On 26–27 March 2010 a conference titled “The Uses of Economics: Past and Future” was held to celebrate the fortieth anniversary. The current issue presents the proceedings of that conference. Forty years for a journal is hardly a landmark. Many academic journals are vastly older—the Proceedings of the Royal Society, for instance, have been published for more than three hundred years. And forty years is an odd anniversary. We name many anniversaries: annual, biennial, triennial, and so forth are obvious. We all know centennial and bicentennial. Not so long ago, California and Texas celebrated sesquicentennials (150th anniversaries). Fifty years has the semicentennial or quinquagenary. And soon California and Texas will celebrate their demi semisept centennials (175th anniversaries). But after a vigorous, if unsystematic, search, I was unable to locate a proper name for the fortieth. So, why celebrate forty? The answer was provided on the television show Mad Men, in which one of the partners in the advertising firm that is its subject mused on

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• Fifty Years of Hope

  José Edwards•History of Political Economy•2020

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