Paul Davidson, Holly Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, has been a leader in heterodox economics for over 40 years. This interview considers how he came to be a heterodox economist, how Post Keynesian economics developed, and what his views on current issues are. The interview...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and Thorstein Veblen are two of the nation's most original social thinkers. Although there is no evidence of any direct link between the two, they share common views of economic affairs. They believed that consumption was driven by emulation...

The paper traces a fairly continuous line of argument about the institutional mechanisms by which intellectual property is produced and maintained in an advanced, commercial society. What the author calls the Chicago intellectual property rights tradition offers a rich and suggestive...

William Vickrey, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1996, was a moral and brilliant man. His major contributions to economics came from his desire to advance ways to decrease waste through creative pricing. The economic areas where he had the most impact are congestion pricing, tax reform...

Paul Davidson is one the best known and influential Post Keynesian economists alive today. He has insisted throughout his career that economists should focus on real world problems and that the purpose of economic policy is to help society become more humane and civilized. He is also known for...

Some standard interpretations of Leon Walras' political economy are challenged by a study of his philosophical and political ideas. Walras thought that his general-equilibrium theory was both a normative scheme and pure science. This "Walras paradox" is resolved by an understanding of the...

J. B. Say argued that commercial crises were the results of effective demand failures, except, unlike Malthus he did not naively attribute effective demand failures to overproduction given some absolute limit on people's willingness to consume. Instead, Say built a theory of recessions based on...

It is useful from time to time to revisit the pioneers in a field. The richness of their original thought is often diminished as new specialists in a field are educated or, rather, trained. Stylized caricatures and toy models out-compete nuanced multidisciplinary narratives in the competition...