Economists have occasionally noticed the appearance of economists in cartoons produced for public amusement during …

The 1933 “Mock Trial of the Economists” is occasionally noticed and then interpreted as popular discontent with … economists's “crime” of “conspiracy to spread mental fog” at evidenced by the dueling letters from the Oxbridge economists … (Keynes, Pigou, et al.) and the LSE economists (Hayek, Robbins et al.) From William Beveridge's archives we provide the …

science of economics that he had inherited from his own teacher, Frank Knight, and how this affected his understanding not … perspective, illustrates the evolution of economic science in 20th century neoclassical economics in two respects. First, it … illustrates what was deemphasized and what was later carried forward from Knight by the generation of Chicago economists following …

Carl Menger published his classic work Principles of Economics in 1871, that work is the founding text of what came … known as the “Austrian School of Economics”. That label has now been used to describe a historical school of thought, as … well as contemporary academic economists and public intellectuals in the policy space to this day 150 years later. This …