Economics Broadly Considered - Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels (Hardcover)

Contents:
Part I Introduction Jeff Biddle, John B. Davis and Steven G. Medena
Part II The History of Economic Thought
1. The ignored history of the administrative tradition: the "mirror for princes" tradition S. Todd Lowry
2. A quintessential (ahistorical) tableau economique to sum up pre- and post-smith classical paradigms Paul Samuelson
3. Frank Knight as institutional economist Geoffrey Hodgson
4. From divergence to convergence: Irving Fisher and John R. Commons as champions of monetary reforms William J. Barber
5. Chamberlin and oligopoly A.W. Coats
6. The two phases of Kuznets' interest in Schumpeter Mark Perlman
7. The AEA and the radical challenge to American social science A.W. Coats
Part III Aspects of Economic Method
8. On the credentials of methodological pluralism Roger E. Backhouse
9. Some practical aspects of pluralism in economics Thomas Mayer
10. What econometrics can and cannot tell us about historical actors: brewing, betting and rationality in London, 1822-44 Philip Mirowski
Part IV The Legal-Economic Nexus
11. Putting the "political" back into political economy Peter Boettke
12. Output categories for a comparitive institutional economics Nicholas Mercuro
13. On the changing nature of the public utility concept: a study in the exercise of power and the search for reform Harry M. Trebing
Part V Aspects of Institutional and Post-Keynesian Economics
14. the institutional economics of Nobel prize winners A. Allan Schmid
15. The social value theory of J. Fagg Foster Marc R. Tool
16. Monetary policy in the 21st century in light of the debate between charalism and moetarism Paul Davidson
17. 1935 where we were - where we are 2000 Robert Solo