Eurocentrism and Contributions of Medieval Muslims to the History of Economics

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-101
Author(s):  
Hamid Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of

2012 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DOES THE VICTOR ENJOY THE SPOILS? PAUL SAMUELSON AS HISTORIAN OF ECONOMICS

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP MIROWSKI
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This Presidential Address revisits Paul Samuelson’s views on the history of science and history of economics, with the advantage of archival evidence from his papers now deposited at Duke. It suggests he was not impressed with historians in general; but also, that his faith in the orthodox neoclassical profession failed him towards the end of his life, when those in the profession started to treat him the way that he had treated the historians.

Comment: It's the Homogeneity, Stupid!

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craufurd D. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Heterodox Economics ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of

This topic is more in contemporary economics than in the history of economics, but in this case an historical perspective does help us to understand the present day. Roger Backhouse and Sheila Dow have approached the progress of heterodox economics mainly through the philosophy and methodology of the discipline. I take a more sociological approach. I see the issue as external to the discipline at least as much as internal.

Textbooks as Data for the Study of the History of Economics: Lowly Beast or Fruitful Vineyard?

2012 ◽  
pp. 193-207
Author(s):  
Steven G. Medema
Keyword(s):  
Coase Theorem ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Rich Data

Historians of economics have paid minimal attention to the diffusion of economic ideas in the textbook literature. Given the low esteem in which textbooks are held as embodiments of scholarship and the propensity of historians of economics - and intellectual historians generally - to focus on the production of scholarship through more lofty venues such as journal articles and scholarly books, this lack of attention to the textbook literature is in some ways understandable. This article argues that the textbook literature constitutes an incredibly rich data source for the historian of economics. In doing so, it offers illustrations from the treatment of the Coase theorem in the textbooks, with a view both to showing how the textbook literature enhances our understanding of the diffusion of economic ideas and how attempts by authors to grapple with new ideas in the context of the textbook literature can result in divergences between how these ideas are treated in the scholarly and textbook literatures.

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