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In David Cronenberg’s film The Fly (1986), Seth Brundle’s DNA gets spliced with a fly’s, in a teleportation experiment gone wrong, producing a monstrous, drooling hybrid—Brundlefly. I recalled this today when I googled myself and found an autobot-generated sidebar entry mistakenly attributing a dozen of my publications to another Robert Leonard: ‘A Dublin native, Robert Leonard writes about the history of twentieth-century economics and the social sciences in scientific and cultural context. His work has appeared in a range of journals in economics and the history of science, including the Economic Journal, History of Political Economy, and Isis. His 1995 article in the Journal of Economic Literature, from which the present book grew, won the Best Article Award of the History of Economics Society. Leonard is Professor of Economics at L’Université du Québec à Montréal.’ It may be a bigger problem for him. I suspect I’m the fly.
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