Smith’s «Essay on Astronomy» argues that we settle for propositions setting minds at rest, especially when truth is unattainable. I suggest that 1. the area of setting minds at rest, through propositions asserting a logical sequence of cause and effect (or otherwise) lets people feel that...

Review of: The Theory of Ethical Economy in the Historical School: Wilhelm Roscher, Lorenz von Stein, Gustav Schmoller, Wilhelm Dilthey and Contemporary Theory. Ed. by Peter Koslowski. 1995. Springer Verlag: Berlin

This stimulating and authoritative book features original essays from leading scholars in the discipline – each of whom address the question: how should economists do economics? What emerges is a diverse, constructive commentary on how economics is done and how it should be done.

Warren Samuels’s second and concluding selection of essays focuses on early 20th century economists who, while relatively well-known in their times, have tended to be obscured by the more prominent stars of the discipline. It illustrates that economics is more diverse and complex than...

This landmark book appraises the contributions of important economists whose work represents the best, the most promising and the most innovative in contemporary economics. Together, they have generated vast new substantive and interpretative horizons in economics. Between them they have made...

American institutionalism has been the principal alternative to the ideas of Marxian economics. By providing critiques of both neoclassical and Marxian economics, institutional economics has presented alternative ideas about the economy and about economics. The papers in these volumes are seen...

Warren J. Samuels has brought together a series of original essays written by economists who are distinguished in their own right. Historians of economic thought, methodologists, general economists and specialists in the fields represented by the subjects will welcome American Economists of the...

The history of economics comprises the accumulated capital of the discipline; its study permits both the retrieval of important ideas and the conduct of analysis which places present day work in context. The essays in this book demonstrate some of the variety of uses to which the history of...