Formal modelling vs / Daniele Besomi -- Ghazanfar's Medieval Islamic economic thought / Salim Rashid -- New light on Malthus : the Kanto Gakuen collection / A.M.C. Waterman -- Postmodernism, H.A. Innis, and the media of communication / Robin Neill -- Was Shakespeare an economic thinker? /...

Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of founding editor Warren J. Samuels, American economists role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic...

This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's...

FRONT COVER -- RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY: A RESEARCH ANNUAL -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORIAL BOARD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BRITISH ECONOMISTS ON COMPETITION POLICY (1890-1920) -- US ECONOMISTS AND THE SHERMAN ACT -- COMPETITION IN...

The libertarian defense of free enterprise, free trade, and freedom from government regulations and controls is grounded in a normative commitment to individual freedom. The majority of the economics profession, including the Chicago School, are committed in the first instance to methodological...

Where should we place Frank Knight in the passage from classical liberalism to neo-liberalism? The argument has recently been made by that Knight should be placed among the group of liberals of an “older generation” that neo-liberals generally, and the Chicago School in particular, separated...