A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...

Over the past two decades, numerous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson’s political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. This literature, however, has provided no consensus about the location of...

I survey the so-called "new neoclassical synthesis" literature (that emerged allegedly as a synthesis between the real business cycle and the new Keynesian literatures) and its ubiquitous dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DGSE) model, emphasizing the current practices in it. This includes...