This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on 'Women and Economics: New … Historical Perspectives.' We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the … mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists …

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …