This Encyclopedia entry aims to review the current state of the art on the economics of happiness. It is organized into past, present and future research. The past research section focuses on the moral philosophical theory of utilitarianism and the ‘method dispute’ in the late 18th and early...

(Wirtschafts-)wissenschaftliches Wissen wird durch narratives Wissen legitimiert. In der Moderne haben sich jedoch monetäre Vergesellschaftungs- und Denkformen herausgebildet, mit denen ein antagonistisches Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis einhergeht. Als Metanarrative sind sie in gesellschaftlichen...

(Wirtschafts-)wissenschaftliches Wissen wird durch narratives Wissen legitimiert. In der Moderne haben sich jedoch monetäre Vergesellschaftungs- und Denkformen herausgebildet, mit denen ein antagonistisches Mensch-Natur-Verhältnis einhergeht. Als Metanarrative sind sie in gesellschaftlichen...

Economic History and the History of Economic Thought haven been relegated increasingly from the teaching and research curricula of economics in recent years. The paper starts off arguing that this trend is due to the mechanistic ontology of mainstream economics, and it continues setting out an...

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...

J. Viner, as well as all other economists who have written on Keynes's analysis of the rate of interest in the General Theory, erred in not taking into account Keynes's detailed, painstaking analysis on pp.180-182 of the General Theory, where Keynes clearly and carefully derived and identified...

The manner in which R. Kahn presented his mathematical results on the multiplier in the Economic Journal of June, 1931, is identical to the style of presenting mathematical results used by Keynes to present his mathematical analysis starting with the A Treatise on Probability in 1921. Keynes's...