Historians of Economics and Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Freedom, Greek and Roman style......Page 14
Freedom, American style......Page 15
The free scholar......Page 17
The accidental economist......Page 18
An accidental historian of economic thought......Page 20
The liberal education of William J.Barber......Page 23
Notes......Page 24
Bibliography......Page 25
Introduction......Page 28
Life and work......Page 29
Ricardo and classical economics......Page 34
Walras and Walrasian economics......Page 37
Keynes and macroeconomics......Page 40
Methodology and the history of economic thought......Page 41
Conclusions......Page 43
Notes......Page 45
Bibliography......Page 47
Why employ economists?......Page 50
Ideas, policy, and events......Page 51
Case study I: Mercantilism: quasi-system, or policy acts and ideas with an empirical base?......Page 52
Case study II: Economic expertise and the policy process......Page 56
In addition to historicizing economic policy......Page 59
Bibliography......Page 60
4 Verve and versatility......Page 62
Notes......Page 69
Bibliography......Page 70
Introduction......Page 74
Dobb’s economic history......Page 75
The young Dobb......Page 78
Dobb on Adam Smith......Page 80
Dobb on Ricardo......Page 82
Marx......Page 85
The rise of marginalism......Page 87
Dobb’s methodological perspective......Page 88
The Marshall Lectures and theories of value and distribution since Adam Smith......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 92
Notes......Page 93
Bibliography......Page 99
Introduction......Page 104
The 1960s and the call for a theory of economic policy......Page 106
Grampp’s analysis of economic liberalism......Page 107
Setting the record straight about the Manchester school......Page 111
The role of the individual in steering Britain’s “turn” toward free trade......Page 116
Grampp and the world of art......Page 119
Final assessment......Page 121
Notes......Page 122
Bibliography......Page 124
Introduction......Page 128
Readings in the history of thought......Page 129
Hayek’s readings of the history of economic thought......Page 133
Notes......Page 136
Bibliography......Page 138
8 From Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill......Page 140
Adam Smith......Page 141
David Ricardo......Page 144
Robert Malthus......Page 155
John Stuart Mill......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 169
Notes......Page 170
Bibliography......Page 171
Methodological issues......Page 174
Resource and environmental economics......Page 176
Legal and contract theory......Page 178
Xenophon......Page 179
Plato......Page 181
The Greek participative tradition......Page 182
Aristotle......Page 183
Avenues for future research and conclusion......Page 186
Notes......Page 187
Bibliography......Page 188
Introduction......Page 192
The economics of physiocracy......Page 193
The Scottish Enlightenment......Page 195
Marxism I: the Stalinist phase......Page 197
Marxism II: the new left......Page 202
Marxism III: the social democratic phase......Page 205
Marx after Sraffa......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 212
Notes......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 216
11 Philip Mirowski as a historian of economic thought......Page 220
Education and early projects......Page 221
Histories of economics......Page 222
More Heat Than Light......Page 224
Two answers to “so what?”......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 231
Introduction: the editor as historian of economic thought......Page 234
Point of entry: economic history......Page 237
The constitution of The Collected Writings......Page 238
Maynard Keynes as companion to The Collected Writings......Page 241
Notes......Page 246
Bibliography......Page 247
The beginning......Page 250
McCulloch......Page 251
Overstone......Page 252
The Classical Economists......Page 254
Methodology......Page 255
Robbins......Page 256
Joplin......Page 257
More monetary economics......Page 258
The nature and approach......Page 259
Publishing habits......Page 260
Concluding comments......Page 261
Notes......Page 262
Bibliography......Page 264
14 Joan Robinson’s economics......Page 270
I......Page 272
Value......Page 273
Utility......Page 275
Full employment as ideology......Page 276
Tools to address time and uncertainty......Page 278
Tools to measure capital and explain accumulation......Page 279
Tools to analyse investment and the price level......Page 280
III......Page 281
IV......Page 283
Notes......Page 286
Bibliography......Page 287
15 Henry William Spiegel......Page 292
Biographical sketch......Page 293
Spiegel’s work as historian of economic thought......Page 295
Some historiographical issues......Page 300
Spiegel as referee......Page 302
Notes......Page 304
Bibliography......Page 305
Introduction......Page 308
Werner Stark, 1909–85......Page 309
Sociology of knowledge as an approach to the history of economics......Page 310
Fundamental forms of social thought......Page 314
Stark as historian of economics......Page 316
From historian to critic......Page 319
Notes......Page 322
Bibliography......Page 323
Introduction......Page 326
Sins of the father?......Page 327
An economic theorist turns to history......Page 328
On the history and methodology of general equilibrium analysis......Page 329
Constructing knowledge......Page 331
History of science and the separate disciplinary status of the history of economic thought......Page 333
Stabilising Dynamics......Page 334
Attacking lost causes......Page 336
The obscured light......Page 337
Bibliography......Page 339
I......Page 342
II......Page 343
III......Page 345
IV......Page 348
Notes......Page 352
Bibliography......Page 354
Index......Page 356