Once economics came to be understood as the scientific investigation of the operation of markets, economic theorists pushed ethical and metaphysical concerns outside their realm of study. After the separation, the claims of Christian theology had no more jurisdiction over the discipline of...

MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this paper the author argues that the immediate postwar period saw a...

The concepts of disagreement, diversity, toleration, and pluralism all belong to the experience of multiplicity and heterogeneity in social life, but while disagreement and diversity describe states-of-affairs, toleration and pluralism denote attitudes and normative values. This article analyzes...