Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in France : from natural order to artificial worlds / Marcel Boumans -- Klein's Economics confronts the economy : confronting economists who are confronting economics / David Colander -- Economic singularism / William Barnett, Walter Block --Duncan Foley's Adams fallacy : did Adam Smith produce fallacy or has fallacy been thrust upon him? / Warren J. Samuels -- Montes and Schleisser's New voices on Adam Smith ; Adam Smith : one author, many contexts / Willie Henderson -- Peart and Levy's : the vanity of the philosopher : sympathy lost (and regain'd?) / Andrew Terjesen -- Schonhardt-Bailey's From the Corn Laws to free trade : complementary forces behind the repeal of Britain's Corn Laws / Andrea Maneschi -- Augello and Guidi's Economists in Parliament : the determinants of thought / Robin F. Neill -- Kornai's By force of thought we're all Austrians now : János Kornai and the Austrian school of economics / Peter T. Leeson -- Backhaus' Entrepreneurship, money, and coordination : which way forward in Hayekian social theory : evolution or design? / William N. Butos -- Heertje's Schumpeter on the economics of innovation / David Reisman -- Parker's John Kenneth Galbraith : the conventional wisdom and the pretense of knowledge / Steven Horwitz -- Donald Stabile's Forerunners of modern financial economics prior knowledge : financial economics before Markowitz / Neil T. Skaggs -- Van Overtveldt's The Chicago School on the theory of economic policy of the Chicago school of economics / Warren J. Samuels -- How should we think of the success of the Chicago school of economics? / Ross B. Emmett -- Early and often or too late and not enough? / Robert Leeson -- Clark's State and status : the complexity of power / Roger E. Backhouse -- Social status on the road from feudalism to the age of enlightenment / Y.S. Brenner -- Unpacking terminology, reassessing theory / Evelyn L. Forget -- State formation in early modern Europe / Keith Tribe -- Skousen's The big three in economics : three strikes and you're out / Humberto Barreto.

The collection includes refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell.Review essays on new publications cover such topics as Adam Smith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Schumpeter, Janos Kornai, the Chicago School, French econometrics, financial economics, economic methodology, economists in parliament, the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the role of state power in economics.

Print version record