The late Warren J. Samuels saw intellectual history as an integral part of his economic scholarship. As an intellectual history he sought to elucidate a past economist's general theory of economic policy in order to assess the relevance of that policy approach to contemporary settings. For...

Introduction to the publication of the previously unpublished essay "Institutional History and the Classical Economics," by Frank H. Knight. Discusses what the essay tells us about Knight's views about institutionalism and economics around 1930. The proper science of economics, Knight argues in...