The future of the history of economics / edited by E. Roy Weintraub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weintraub, E. Roy.

Series:

History of political economy. Supplement ; 2002.

History of political economy. Annual supplement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History--Study and teaching (Higher).

Economics.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Will economics ever have a past again? / E. Roy Weintraub

Part 1. North American issues

Sitting on a log with Adam Smith : the future of the history of economic thought at the liberal arts colleges / Bradley W. Bateman

Graduate studies in the history of economic thought / Ted Gayer

The history of economics as a subdiscipline : the role of the History of Economics Society meetings / John B. Davis

Part 2. International issues

The future of the history of economic thought in Britain / Roger E. Backhouse

Economics as history of economics : the Italian case in retrospect / Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli

The present situation of the history of economic thought in France / Ghislain Deleplace

Reflections on the past and current state of the history of economic thought in Germany / Bertram Schefold

The history of economic thought in Spain and Portugal : a brief survey / José Luís Cardoso

A brief history of history of economic thought teaching in the Netherlands / Albert Jolink and Mark Blaug

The history of economic thought in Australia and New Zealand / John Lodewijks

History of economics in Japan : a turning point / Aiko Ikeo

Part 3. Publication and research

The future of publication in the history of economic thought : the view from HOPE / Craufurd D. Goodwin

Heaven can wait : gatekeeping in an age of uncertainty, innovation, and commericalization / Steven G. Medema, José Luís Cardoso, and John Lodewijks

Coming together : history of economics as history of science / Margaret Schabas

A hunger for narrative : writing lives in the history of economic thought / Evelyn L. Forget

Surfing the past : the role of the internet in the future of the history of economics / Ross Emmett

Part 4. The next generation

Confusion and "interstanding" : a figured account of hope / Matthias Klaes

The interesting narrative of a Duke-trained historian of economics, from prospectus to Ph.D. to profession ; or How I learned to love Weintraub and start worrying / Stephen Meardon

So you want to be a historian of economics? Reflections of a recent recruit / Esther-Mirjam Sent

Once and future historians : notes from graduate training in economics / Derek S. Brown and Shauna Saunders

Reflections on the tales of the next generation / Evelyn L. Forget

Part 5. Heterodox traditions

History of economic thought in the post-Keynesian tradition / Sheila C. Dow

The use and abuse of the history of economic thought within the Austrian school of economics / Peter J. Boettke

The Marxist tradition in the history of economics / Anthony Brewer

Afterword

A pall along the watchtower : on leaving the HOPE conference / Philip Mirowksi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822365472

OCLC:

51194841