The purpose of the paper is to bring out the special characters of Paolo Sylos Labini experience concerning his work on the history of the discipline. It includes three successive parts. The first investigates the extent to which Sylos Labini can be considered as a Schumpeterian scholar. The...

Рассматривается ранний этап развития российской экономической мысли: становление предмета и метода науки, специфика этого процесса в связи со спецификой...

The paper argues that economics is not a perfect selection mechanism that preserves each and every economic idea that is valid and useful and jettisons all ideas that are not. The teleological view of the subject cannot be sustained. Therefore the task of the history of economic thought cannot...

Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field. A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding...