Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought focuses on the theme of the dual aspects of method in the development of economic thought. It contains new papers that address methodolological issues, others that deal with the evolution of analytic techniques or the social or personal milieux in...

Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought illustrates the administrative aspects that are an on-going component of most economic theory. It demonstrates that before the birth of political economy as a formal discipline, public and private administrators were formulating theories about...