The influence of American economists on the Clayton and Federal Trade Commission acts / Luca Fiorito -- The methodology of Islamic economic and socio-scientific inquiry / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- A response to Masudul Alam Choudhury / Ayman Reda -- Rejoinder / Masudul Alam Choudhury -- Samuels on methodological pluralism in economics / John B. Davis -- Samuels vs. Buchanan : grasping the purpose of the law / Daniel W. Bromley -- Understanding institutionalism / Bradley W. Bateman -- A detailed and accurate picture of American institutionalism / Jeff E. Biddle -- Psychology, scientific control, Chicago, and the impact of European émigrés / Ross B. Emmett -- From the progressives to the institutionalists : what the First World War did and did not do to American economics / Thomas C. Leonard -- OBrien and Creedy's Darwin's clever neighbor / Neil T. Skaggs -- Keppler's Adam Smith and the economy of the passions / Jeffrey T. Young -- Farrant's Hayek, Mill, and the liberal tradition / Bruce Caldwell -- Finn's The true wealth of nations / Daniela Parisi -- Snyder's The philosophical breakfast club / Michael Perelman -- Halteman and Noell's Reckoning with markets / Ross B. Emmett.

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of founding editor Warren J. Samuels, American economists role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic economic methodology. A review symposium on Malcolm Rutherfords The Insitutionalist Movement in America is followed by reviews of books on Adam Smith, George Warde Norman, William Whewell and Richard Jones, J.S. Mill and F.A. Hayek.

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