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Economists' lives : biography and autobiography in the history of economics / edited by E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of political economy. Annual supplement ; 2007.
- History of political economy, 0018-2702 ; annual suppl. to v. 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economists--Biography--History and criticism.
- Economists.
- Economists--Biography.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction / E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget
- Pt. 1. Stage setting. Rediscovering intellectual biography
- and its limits / Malachi Hacohen
- Is autobiography anti-academic and uneconomical? Some thoughts on academic autobiography / Jeremy D. Popkin
- Pt. 2. Varieties of economists' biographies. Lives in synopsis: the production and use of short biographies by historians of economics / Roger E. Backhouse
- The creation of heroes and villains as a problem in the history of economics / Robert W. Dimand
- The group life as a genre of economists' life writing / William Coleman
- Pt. 3. Autobiography and identity. The economy of narrative identity / Paul John Eakin
- Using autobiographical statements to investigate the identity of American economists / Mike Reay
- The role of oral history in the historiography of heterodox economics / Tiago Mata and Frederic S. Lee
- Oral history and the historical reconstruction of Chicago economics / Ross Emmett
- Pt. 4. Studies in biography. François Quesnay: a "rural Socrates" in Versailles? / Christine Théré and Loïc Charles
- Some relationships between a scholar's and an entrepreneur's life: the biography of L. Albert Hahn / Jan-Otmar Hesse
- "Between worlds," or an imagined reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about equilibrium and mathematics in the 1920s / Robert Leonard
- Maynard and Virginia: a personal and professional friendship / Craufurd D. Goodwin
- The intimate spaces of community: John Maynard Keynes and the arts / Patricia Laurence
- Pt. 5. The biographer's craft. Biography and autobiography: Harry Johnson / D.E. Moggridge
- Life writings: on-the-job training with F.A. Hayek / Bruce Caldwell
- Reflections of a Marshall biographer / Peter Groenewegen
- A personal afterword / E. Roy Weintraub.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822366835
- 9780822366836
- OCLC:
- 184680289
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