This draft chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is intended to give advice to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to...

Economics today is a model building and testing science. But scientific economics was not always understood in terms of models. Economics first emerged as a separate field of scientific study in post-bellum America. The laissez-faire orientation of early American moral philosophy gave way to...

The last two chapters of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty and Profit are seldom cited and frequently ignored. But in those chapters, Knight moves from entrepreneurial judgment and organizational strategies to meet the challenges uncertainty presents at the firm level to the wider question...

The paper uses the occasion of Frank Knight's return to the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 1952 to link Knight's disagreements with Hayek during the 1950s and 1960s, when they were both members of the Committee, with his disagreements with Nef and Hutchins during the...

The late Warren J. Samuels saw intellectual history as an integral part of his economic scholarship. As an intellectual history he sought to elucidate a past economist's general theory of economic policy in order to assess the relevance of that policy approach to contemporary settings. For...

Paper presented at "The Legacy of Chicago Economics" conference at the Becker-Friedman Institute for Economic Research, The University of Chicago, October 5, 2015. A survey of Frank Knight's contribution to the Chicago School, and a consideration of how the School moved away from Knight's...

This draft chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is intended to give advice to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to...

This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's...