attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a …

investigation in their respective disciplines. The post-war Chicago School of economics is only the best known of the efforts at the …

'Economics and its fellow social sciences' ought to be 'regarded more nearly as branches of philosophy.' The second is [ii] the … denial that economics is 'enmeshed with values at the outset because they deal with human behaviour'. I show that Friedman … that positive economics is (in a non-trivial sense) enmeshed in values. In order to account for Friedman's overreaching, I …

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 …

This paper argues that history of economics has a fruitful, underappreciated role to play in the development of … economics, especially when understood as a policy science. This goes against the grain of the last half century during which … economics, which has undergone a formal revolution, has distanced itself from its ‘literary' past and practices precisely with …

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 …

This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It … economics as a discipline. …

in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …

institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the … modern economics profession, it is plausible that economic ideas compete on margins unrelated to truth. The adaptive value of … certain kinds of economics can explain the prevalence of the economics that is currently practiced. Since survivability and …