ABSTRACT
The last two decades have been an extraordinarily productive research period for historians of economics in Australia and New Zealand. To a large extent the growth in research output reflects the increased number of specialist journals in the field and the book publishing opportunities opened by Routledge, Edward Elgar, and other publishing houses. The formation of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) in 1981 and the Newsletter, and its successors the Bulletin and the History of Economics Review (established in 1991), also played a significant role. Nonetheless the Australasian contribution, in per capita terms, is quite remarkable.
