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Book SynopsisThe collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of Warren J. Samuels (founding editor of the research annual), American economists' role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic economic methodology. A review symposium on Malcolm Rutherford's The Institutionalist Movement in America is followed by reviews of books on Adam Smith, George Warde Norman, William Whewell and Richard Jones, J. S. Mill and F. A. Hayek, Catholic economic thought, and morality and economics.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Acknowledgments. Obituary: Warren J. Samuels, Founding Editor. The Influence of American Economists on the Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts. The Methodology of Islamic Economic and Socio-Scientific Inquiry. A Response to Masudul Alam Choudhury. Rejoinder. Samuels on Methodological Pluralism in Economics. Samuels vs. Buchanan: Grasping the Purpose of the Law. Understanding Institutionalism. A Detailed and Accurate Picture of American Institutionalism. Psychology, Scientific Control, Chicago, and the Impact of European émigrés. From the Progressives to the Institutionalists: What the First World War did and did not do to American Economics. O’Brien and Creedy's Darwin's Clever Neighbor. Keppler's Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions. Farrant's Hayek, Mill, and the Liberal Tradition. Finn's the True Wealth of Nations. Snyder's the Philosophical Breakfast Club. Halteman and Noell's Reckoning with Markets. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Copyright page.
