Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic … Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands of American Institutionalism and Schumpeterian economics are … economic thought are discussed. The conclusion is that an evolutionary approach to economics would benefit from any attempt to …

using historical data.The purpose of wealth has varied from over time. From an economics perspective, wealth is the …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …

institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the … modern economics profession, it is plausible that economic ideas compete on margins unrelated to truth. The adaptive value of … certain kinds of economics can explain the prevalence of the economics that is currently practiced. Since survivability and …

is argued that economics embraced a technocratic conception of politics and science. Philosophers, too, embraced and … philosophers and economics and that keep not just ethics, but virtue outside of economics. Many of these philosophers’ commitments … pure economics. So, in effect, this paper explores the origin and nature of a conceptual split between economics and ethics …

different students studying economics. Resource students at a New Zealand university, obliged to take an introductory principles …

This author's version of a forthcoming SpringerBrief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently …, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox and pluralist approaches to economics. By acknowledging that the world of … theory is not the same as the reality that we are trying to understand, the brief focuses on three paths that generally …