This article deals with the economists' depiction of American consumers' attitudes and behavior in relation to inflation, 1965-79. There were two sides in the debate, the neo-Keynesians and the monetarists. The former played down the costs of inflation regardless of the public's perception to...

The article compares the Roman civil servants' approach to commercial society and economic policy with that of Catholic social thinkers, 1775 to 1850. It is shown that the functionaries based the commercial and fiscal reforms of the turn of the century on eighteenth-century political economy,...

Hayek’s opposition to the historical approach to political economy was unwavering over the course of his career. In spite of Hayek’s antagonistic attitude, this article argues that certain elements of his stance after «Economics and Knowledge» (1936) were raised by historical political...