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Book SynopsisThis companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. It has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought; the history of economics as a discipline; and the historiography of economic thought.
Trade Review“With the range, depth, and clarity of the contributions, this exceptional volume provides the reader with the best modern historical thinking on the development of economics from antiquity to the present. It should be on every economist’s bookshelf.”
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University “This collection covers an extraordinary range of key topics in the history of economic thought and historiography. While space is at a high premium in such collective endeavors, the editors have allowed contributors ample scope to make meaningful surveys. The collection as a whole provides a splendid teaching and research resource.” Samuel Hollander, Ben–Gurion University
"What a wonderful companion; I will keep it on my shelf and refer to it often. It's an excellent set of brief summaries of the current state of the art in the history of thought, from ancient times until today." David Colander, Middlebury College
Table of ContentsList of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
1 Research Styles in the History of Economic Thought 1
Jeff E. Biddle
PART I HISTORICAL SURVEYS
2 Ancient and Medieval Economics 11
S. Todd Lowry
3 Contributions of Medieval Muslim Scholars to the History of Economics and their Impact: A Refutation of the Schumpeterian Great Gap 28
Hamid S. Hosseini
4 Mercantilism 46
Lars G. Magnusson
5 Physiocracy and French Pre-Classical Political Economy 61
Philippe Steiner
6 Pre-Classical Economics in Britain 78
Anthony Brewer
7 Adam Smith (1723–1790): Theories of Political Economy 94
Andrew S. Skinner
8 Classical Economics 112
Denis P. O’Brien
9 Post-Ricardian British Economics, 1830–1870 130
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
10 Karl Marx: His Work and the Major Changes in its Interpretation 148
Geert Reuten
11 The Surplus Interpretation of the Classical Economists 167
Heinz D. Kurz
12 Non-Marxian Socialism 184
J. E. King
13 Utopian Economics 201
Warren J. Samuels
14 Historical Schools of Economics: German and English 215
Keith Tribe
15 American Economics to 1900 231
William J. Barber
16 English Marginalism: Jevons, Marshall, and Pigou 246
Peter Groenewegen
17 The Austrian Marginalists: Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, and Wieser 262
Steven Horwitz
18 Early General Equilibrium Economics: Walras, Pareto, and Cassel 278
Donald A. Walker
19 The “First” Imperfect Competition Revolution 294
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
20 The Stabilization of Price Theory, 1920–1955 308
Roger E. Backhouse
21 Interwar Monetary and Business Cycle Theory: Macroeconomics before Keynes 325
Robert W. Dimand
22 Keynes and the Cambridge School 343
G. C. Harcourt and Prue Kerr
23 American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period 360
Malcolm Rutherford
24 Postwar Neoclassical Microeconomics 377
S. Abu Turab Rizvi
25 The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s 395
Mark Blaug
26 A History of Postwar Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics 411
Kevin D. Hoover
27 The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought 428
Steven G. Medema
28 Postwar Heterodox Economics 445
A The Austrian School of Economics: 1950–2000 445
Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. Leeson
B Feminist Economics 454
Janet A. Seiz
C Institutional Economics 462
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
D Post Keynesian Economics 471
Sheila C. Dow
E Radical Political Economy 479
Bruce Pietrykowski
PART II HISTORIOGRAPHY
29 Historiography 491
Matthias Klaes
30 The Sociology of Economics and Scientific Knowledge, and the History of Economic Thought 507
A. W. Bob Coats
31 Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation 523
Ross B. Emmett
32 Textuality and the History of Economics: Intention and Meaning 538
Vivienne Brown
33 Mathematical Modeling as an Exegetical Tool: Rational Reconstruction 553
A. M. C. Waterman
34 Economic Methodology since Kuhn 571
John B. Davis
35 Biography and the History of Economics 588
D. E. Moggridge
36 Economics and Economists in the Policy Process 606
Craufurd D. W. Goodwin
37 The International Diffusion of Economic Thought 622
José Luís Cardoso
38 The History of Ideas and Economics 634
Mark Perlman
39 Research in the History of Economic Thought as a Vehicle for the Defense and Criticism of Orthodox Economics 655
John Lodewijks
Name Index 669
Subject Index 688
