In this review essay of Medema's and Waterman's collection of some of Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written "Whig History" is spurious. Moreover the author argues that Samuelson's own writings on modern economics are , whether...

This paper is a concatenation of the penultimate versions of the first and last chapters of the book A Historiography of Contemporary Economics, edited by Düppe and Weintraub, to be published by Routledge Press in late 2018. The volume itself collects commissioned essays on recently developed...

A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...

A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...

This paper is a concatenation of the penultimate versions of the first and last chapters of the book A Historiography of Contemporary Economics, edited by Düppe and Weintraub, to be published by Routledge Press in late 2018. The volume itself collects commissioned essays on recently developed...

In this review essay of Medema's and Waterman's collection of some of Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written "Whig History" is spurious. Moreover the author argues that Samuelson's own writings on modern economics are , whether...

Methodologist-philosopher Tony Lawson's distinction between the theoretic and the ontic is insufficient to untangle what he regards as a set of complex confusions concerning economists' use of the idea of equilibrium. His problem is better approached through a historical excavation of...