Farewell to Notes
《经济展望杂志》宣布停止印刷版“笔记”栏目，因为互联网已使纸质发布会议、征稿等信息过时，并回顾了该栏目自1911年《美国经济评论》创刊以来的历史。
The great composer Johannes Brahms once remarked: is not difficult to compose; but it is incredibly difficult to let the superfluous notes drop under the table (as quoted in Musgrave and Pascall 1987, p. 138). Here at the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the challenges of composing each issue remain, but the have become superfluous, at least in their paper version. The Notes, as those who lurk in these back pages of JEP know well, announce forthcoming conferences, calls for papers, awards, and the like. However, the Internet has made it obsolete to deliver such information on paper in a quarterly journal. News and Notes from the American Economic Association is at http://www .aeaweb.org/news.php; outside announcements are on the Bulletin Board website at http://www.aeaweb.org/bulletinboard.php; and for a complete list of economics conferences by field area, see http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/conferences.php. But as we say farewell to the print version of the Notes, a moment of remem brance seems appropriate. The first issue of the American Economic Review, published in 1911, found it worthwhile to devote 13 out of 219 total pages to Notes. The first (freely available online at http://www.jstor.org) was a mixed bag. It started with news on the growth of AEA membership, followed with an announcement more than a page long about the opening of a Bureau of Railway Economics in Washington, DC. The US Bureau of Labor announced a number of jobs for trained economists. There was progress on the formation of Economic Clubs in various cities under the guidance of the National Economic League, and the Tulane Society of Economics continued to hold monthly meetings.