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This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics. The papers in this volume fall into four parts, each devoted to an important theme in Wade Hands’ work. The first part explores the influence and scope of Reflection without Rules, capturing the rich debate that the book generated about what guides methodological and philosophical thinking in economics. The second part examines Hands’ research on Paul Samuelson’s economics and the methodological dimensions of Samuelson’s thinking. Part three looks to ...
An engaging, important text calling for the reform of economics and pushing for the discipline to become an honest and effective tool for democracy.
In this revealing and eminently readable book, Geoffrey M. Hodgson takes readers on an intellectual odyssey through his distinguished career and his work as one of the leading institutional and evolutionary economists. Depicting his life throughout the Cold War, grappling with the military and economic rivalry of two different systems, to becoming an economist in the 1970s, and his later venture into institutional and evolutionary economics.
Annotation. The collection includes refereed articles on a variety of subjects in the history of economic thought: Adam Smith, J.M. Clark and F.H. Knight, F.H. Knight and M.A. Copeland, S. Bulgakov, and interwar monetary and business cycle theory. Review essays on new publications cover such areas as methodology, Veblen, economics and religion, Hayek, economic philosophy and ideology, J.S. Mill, and evolution theory.
This important book features some of the most original and interesting new work by an internationally acclaimed group of authors on the history and development of economic thought. A range of important issues in twentieth century economics are addressed including the current state of methodological investigation, early modes of conflict and Wicksell's concept of capital. The economics of the inter-war period are examined as they pertain to Dutch Marxism, mainstream theories of uncertainty and the origin of the theory of imperfect competition. A series of papers on Keynes includes perspectives on issues ranging from his philosophical thinking to the relationship between his ideas on the limit...