light on Robbins' overarching interest on the interplay of economics as a science and political economy as a broader field … Robbins' approach to economics. Specifically, some elements that would resurface in Robbins' later works are identified, and … purpose of illuminating the extent to which the science of economics could serve as an important tool – necessary, though not …

This note reviews the changes Samuelson made to the family tree of economics between the 4th and 11th editions of his … textbook Economics in relation to the book's changing coverage of the history of economic thought. Of particular interest are … the development from "neoclassical synthesis" to "new economics" to "Post-Keynes Mainstream", and the change from implying …

series "Recollections of Eminent Economics", originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of "Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly …

happened to political economy ever since, and how far economics has diverged from Robbins' agenda. Our main claim is that these … topics appeared on the second edition of the Essay because Robbins saw them as fundamental if economics (as a science) were … to mimic the methods of the natural sciences by preserving the human element that makes economics a social science …

series “Recollections of Eminent Economics”, originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of “Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly … Austrian School, Steindl witnessed two major changes in economics: the Keynesian revolution, and the subsequent …

London School of Economics (LSE) from Edwin Cannan and Arnold Plant. The main lesson Coase taught us and insisted upon was … that economics should not be too ‘abstract' and should not rely on a priori categories. He pleaded for more realism in … economics, for a form of ‘political economy': economists should use theory to generalise what facts tell us rather than trying …

As a student at the London School of Economics (LSE), Ronald Coase posed a seemingly naïve question that would, in time …, fundamentally change the face of economics and earn him the Nobel Prize: ‘Why do firms exist?' The import of this simple question … Cost Economics and much of organizational economics more generally. Much has been written of Coase's days as a student at …

Over the past two decades, numerous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson …’s political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. This literature, however, has … of this paper is not to argue for one of these two interpretations but to depict the making of Economics itself as a …

Once economics came to be understood as the scientific investigation of the operation of markets, economic theorists … had no more jurisdiction over the discipline of economics than they did over other scientific disciplines. On one side … has often been understood as part of secularization, yet, economics and theology have often intersected since the …