Introduction and overview -- The historical logic of economics imperialism -- The economic approach : marginalism extended -- New economics imperialism : the revolution portrayed -- From economics, through institutions, to society? -- From social capital to freakonomics -- Economics confronts...

Developments within economics of incorporating the historical (and the social, institutional, etc more generally) have been welcomed as progress over excessive formalism and lack of realism. But, by situating these developments in terms of the shifting relationship between economics, the...