This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on “Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives.” We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the...

This study moves away from the usual depiction of Say as a one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology. Here he is placed in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy