1. Styles of Scientific Reasoning as Historiographical Metaphor: A Reply to Martin Kusch -- 2. The Myth of the Framework and the Modes of Thought in Economics -- 3. Historical Epistemology of Ecological Economics and Styles of Economic Reasoning -- 4. The Crisis of the Historical Style of...

Chapter 1. General Introduction: Why Should We Study the History of Economic Theory? -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. Economics in Cambridge: Alfred Marshall, the Old Cambridge School, and Their Opponents in England -- Chapter 4. Economics in Lausanne: Vilfredo Pareto and the Lausanne...

Fun and Useful -- Welcome! -- Dead Men’s Wrong Ideas? -- Pioneers and Contenders -- Wealth and Power: Mercantilism -- The Physiocrats and Law of Nature -- Classical School -- Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of the Market Mechanism -- Thomas Malthus and Effectual Demand -- David Ricardo and...

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours...

This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward...

Introduction: John Tomer and the Importance of Pluralism and Humanism in Economic Modelling -- 1 Tomer's Humanistic Hand -- 2 Behavioral economics as the combination of economics with all behavioral and social sciences -- 3 John Tomer’s Human Firm: Where is it Today? -- 4 The Human and Humane...

Chapter 1. Keynes’s Lakatosian Scientific Research Programme (SRP) as Outlined in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) -- Part I Keynes: The Meaning of Background: 1883-1910 -- Chapter 2. Keynes’s intellectual debts and the ‘Locke Connection’ -- chapter 3....

1.Endogenous Growth: Introduction -- 2. Adam Smith and Economic Progress -- 3. Alfred Marshall on Organic Growth -- 4. Allyn Young on Increasing Returns -- 5. Nicholas Kaldor on Equilibrium Economics and Economic Growth -- 6. Lauchlin Currie and the Leading-Sector Model of Growth -- 7. Paul...

Introduction, Keynes’s Own IS-LM Approach -- Prologue to Keynes’s IS-LM, 1930 to 1932 -- The Advent of Keynes’s IS-LM, 1933 -- “The Missing Link”: Keynes’s Own Lecture Notes, December 4, 1933, Impact and Implications -- Reconstructing Keynes’s IS-LM Approach, 1931 to 1937 --...

Chapter 1. Looking for dynamic economics: Tinbergen’s early breakthrough -- Chapter 2. Relaxation oscillations in the early development of econometrics: a road not taken -- Chapter 3. Frisch’s macro-dynamics: inner stability and external impulses -- Chapter 4. Kalecki’s macro-dynamics:...