This note reviews the changes Samuelson made to the family tree of economics between the 4th and 11th editions of his … textbook Economics in relation to the book's changing coverage of the history of economic thought. Of particular interest are … the development from "neoclassical synthesis" to "new economics" to "Post-Keynes Mainstream", and the change from implying …

series "Recollections of Eminent Economics", originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of "Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly …

happened to political economy ever since, and how far economics has diverged from Robbins' agenda. Our main claim is that these … topics appeared on the second edition of the Essay because Robbins saw them as fundamental if economics (as a science) were … to mimic the methods of the natural sciences by preserving the human element that makes economics a social science …

series “Recollections of Eminent Economics”, originally published in vol. 37 n. 148 of “Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly … Austrian School, Steindl witnessed two major changes in economics: the Keynesian revolution, and the subsequent …

Once economics came to be understood as the scientific investigation of the operation of markets, economic theorists … had no more jurisdiction over the discipline of economics than they did over other scientific disciplines. On one side … has often been understood as part of secularization, yet, economics and theology have often intersected since the …

is argued that economics embraced a technocratic conception of politics and science. Philosophers, too, embraced and … philosophers and economics and that keep not just ethics, but virtue outside of economics. Many of these philosophers’ commitments … pure economics. So, in effect, this paper explores the origin and nature of a conceptual split between economics and ethics …

Paul Samuelson proposed and practiced a program for the Whig history of economics. One such example is his account of …