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Book SynopsisThis book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "Prosperity and Depression"; reminiscences on the New Deal by Jacob Viner; and Don Lavoie's lectures on comparative economic systems. It reviews essays on books about Schumpeter, Keynes, Mincer, comparative economic history, and the Chicago School; as well as reviews of books dealing with the repeal of the Corn Laws, economic systems and economic growth, the Enlightenment and post-modernism, and virtue ethics and capitalism.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Acknowledgments. Two relational conceptions of individuals: teams and neuroeconomics. Comparing editorial problems: the Harrod papers and the making of Haberler's prosperity and depression. Smith's development as didactic lecturer: evidence from the lectures on jurisprudence. Jacob Viner’s reminiscences from the new deal (February 11, 1953). Don Lavoie's graduate lectures on comparative economic systems: George Mason University, Fall 1985. Prophet of Innovation Schumpeter's best moveMcCraw's. the Bourgeois Virtues Two cheers for Mccloskeymccloskey's. Keynes and His Battles Fighting for the possibility of civilizationdostaler's. Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism Capitalism and economic growthbaumol, Litan & Schramm's. Jacob Mincer and teixeira's. New Comparative Economic History Cliometrics goes comparativehatton, O’rourke, and Taylor's. from the Corn Laws to Free Trade One case to rule them all: Theoretical synthesis and the repeal of the corn lawsschonhardt-bailey's. Postmodernism and the Enlightenment Meta-narratives, enlightenment and paradoxgordon's. the Chicago School How should the rise of the Chicago school be explained?van Overtveldt's. Road to Serfdom The servants of our own machinery? F. A. Hayek's caldwell's Edition of Hayek's. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Copyright page.
