The British social economist Barbara Wootton (1897--1988), engaged in a searching critique of the narrowness and abstraction of Neoclassical orthodoxy in herLament for Economics (1938), which was provoked by Robbins'Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, and in her reply to...

<title>Abstract</title> Guy Routh was an outstandingly incisive and severe critic of mainstream economic theory's abstraction, class bias, and empirical irrelevance. Routh's <italic>The Origin of Economic Ideas</italic> (1975 1989), with such chapter titles as “The Preposterous Origins” and “From Propaganda to Dogma”,...