"The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book...

chapter 1 Introduction: Culture, economics, and economic behavior -- chapter 2 Western economics and the economy of Japan -- chapter 3 "What are the questions?" -- chapter 4 An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy -- chapter 5 The workings of the Japanese economy --...