"If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central...

The fault line of axiomatization -- The mathematical turn in economics -- The arrow of time in economics -- Of puzzles and problems -- Economics pursuing the mold of evolutionary biology -- Economics as plausible conjecture -- Max Weber and the lost thread of historical economics -- Historical...