ABSTRACT
A number of limits exist to the utilizability of computerization and other or complementary apparatus available for organizing and retrieving information and knowledge in the history of economic thought. The organization and facilitation of retrieval of information on the history of economic thought are of growing importance. At issue, therefore, is the selection and adaptation of the best means or sets of means. The principal sources of information relating to the history of economic thought are periodicals, books, encyclopedias and similar repositories of this information, along with many other kinds not relevant to the development of economic thought and analysis. In the field of natural science, far more than in economics, the demand for information is problem-oriented and, hence, specifically oriented to the solution of the problem in need of solution. The content of natural science is more subdivisible, as a rule, into utilizable parts than is that of social sciences.
