research core of institutional economics, mainly based on his behavioural assumptions …

science of economics that he had inherited from his own teacher, Frank Knight, and how this affected his understanding not … perspective, illustrates the evolution of economic science in 20th century neoclassical economics in two respects. First, it …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), who sadly died at the remarkable age of 102, made significant contributions to economics … structure and functioning of the economy”. This paper traces the development of Coase’s economics to describe his contributions … and the essence of the law and economics enterprise he fostered …

This article presents a comparative analysis of the approaches of institutional economics and Walrasian economics …. After reviewing the differences between both perspectives, it argues that institutional economics is an alternative, however … incomplete, to general equilibrium economics. It compares the way both tendencies conceive the individual, knowledge, efficiency …

This paper addresses a central question of the experimental turn in economics: how a relatively small group of … experimental economists in the 1970s and 1980s managed to convince editors and referees of leading economics journals of the merits … of the experimental method with the consequence that by the early 1990s experimental economics research became a standard …

hope for the dominant trajectory in the history of economics? In contrast to the rich historical literature on the … axiomatic economics and, insofar, may inform theory choice within the neo-Walrasian paradigm. Naturally, the answers to the …

The history of modern economics abounds with pleas for more pluralism as well as pleas for more unification. These seem … particular, Samuelson's Foundations is invariably presented as a key text in the unification of modern economics during the … derivational unification was pluralist in spirit: not to narrow scientific economics into one single theory, but rather to allow …

economics on one general and complex model based on first principles or axioms. In contrast, Solow advocated the use of a …