The history of economics has often been described as the “history of economic thought.” In this essay, I explore an alternative perspective that builds on the French tradition of historical epistemology and treats economics as a social practice. I argue that a practice-based view provides a...

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,...

In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification used by the American Economic Association to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the 20th century. Successive classifications were fashioned...

I argue that there exists a coherent and relevant tradition in economic thought that I label "price theory". I define it as neoclassical microeconomic analysis that reduces rich and often incompletely-specified models into "prices" (approximately) sufficient to characterize solutions to simple...

In “Culture: the Anthropologist's Account” (1999) Adam Kuper advised avoidance of the use of the word ‘culture' at all. It has come to denote too much and has now come to mean too little. However, just as “the history of all cultures is the history of cultural borrowing” (Edward Said,...

TWENTY16 has been a BIG year! As a companion to Faff (2015, 2016), the current paper reviews experiences and draws insights from a series of workshops, pitch days, competitions, webinars and other events based on the “pitching research” template tool. With close to 80 unique events conducted...

In this paper we select the most relevant parts of the applicable rulings to the recent judicial saga of the Argentine sovereign debt in default to show the radical changes took by the United States courts that were in charge of the cases, including the latest case dated December 22, 2016. The...

Polish Abstract: Opracowanie stanowi przegląd literatury naukowej z zakresu teorii użyteczności przedstawiając jej stopniowy rozwój i rolę w teorii ekonomii. Esej przedstawia ewolucję spojrzenia ekonomistów i matematyków na pojęcie użyteczności poczynając od Adama Smitha i Daniela...

Introduced over the backdrop of collective humanity's semi-conscious march towards unsustainable future by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY PHILOSOPHY (SEP) posits an alternative path. In a SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY, economic drives & decisions, processes &...

Bitcoin has enabled competition between digital cryptocurrencies and traditional legal tender fiat currencies. Despite rapidly increasing acceptance, so far the affirmation of cryptocurrency as better money has been thwarted by dramatic deflationary price instability. Successful at disposing of...