This paper examines the reception of Adam Smith ideas in Greece from their first appearance in commercial handbooks of pre-independence Greece to the academic treatment of Smith in the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses how Smith was perceived in the translators’ comments in the...

A sociocognitive foundation for transformative agency requires much deeper exploration to adequately understand the causal origins of our interests, preferences and choices as they shape both the emergence of institutions, as well as the process of institutional change. In the collegial spirit...

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...

This paper examines the role that language--or rhetoric-- played in various debates over inflation, concluding that the analysis of the structure of persuasiveness in economics would repay more systematic investigation

Shorter undergraduate studies, increasing specialization and the priority of applied research in Economics represent threats for the History of Economic Thought (HET) as an integral part of the training of young economists. There are mostly sociological arguments to reduce or eliminate HET...

Jan Tinbergen and Milton Friedman were both very much inspired making economic theory work, applying it in service of society. The Tinbergen approach - the economist as Social Engineer - was exported to Chicago in the 1940s where one of Tinbergen's students - Tjalling Koopmans - became a...

The existence of a ‘Chicago school of economics' has for many years been all but taken for granted in the profession, recognized in scholarly articles and books, in history of economics texts, and even in the popular media. Its defining characteristics and membership, though, have been the...