Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes

Edited by Marcel Boumans, Associate Professor History and Methodology of Economics, Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), the Netherlands and Matthias Klaes, The University of Buckingham, UK

• Contents:ForewordAlan Peacock1. IntroductionMarcel Boumans and Matthias KlaesPART I: PERSONAL APPRECIATIONS2. Memorial AddressJohn Maloney3. Producing Pearls of Wisdom: A Memoir of Mark Blaug’s WorkRuth Towse4. Remembering Mark BlaugBruce Caldwell5. Remembering Mark BlaugThomas MayerPART II: MARK BLAUG’S IDEAS IN RETROSPECT6. Some Contentious Issues in Theory and Policy in Memory of Mark BlaugRichard G. Lipsey7. Mark Blaug on the Quantity Theory: A Skirmish on the Border between Science and Ideology in the History of Economic ThoughtDavid Laidler8. Dr Blaug’s Diagnosis: Is Economics Sick?Geoffrey M. Hodgson9. Competition as an Evolutionary Process: Mark Blaug and Evolutionary EconomicsJack Vromen10. A 2x2=4 Hobby Horse: Mark Blaug on Rational and Historical ReconstructionsHarro Maas11. Understanding Mark Blaug’s Attitude Towards Sraffian Economics Roger E. Backhouse12. Mark Blaug on the Historiography of EconomicsJohn B. Davis13. An Unrepentant LakatosianMarcel Boumans14. Between the Scylla of Whig History and the Charybdis of Methodological VacuumAndrea Salanti15. Mark Blaug and the Economics of the ArtsVictor Ginsburgh16. From Austria to Australia: Mark Blaug and Cultural EconomicsChristian Handke and Erwin Dekker17. GP08 is the New F53: Gul and Pesendorfer’s Methodological Essay from the Viewpoint of Blaug’s Popperian MethodologyD. Wade HandsBibliography of Mark Blaug’s PublicationsIndex

’Blaug was a fierce combatant and relished intellectual disputes. Since he would have found no rhetorical praise in the various contributions of this book, but a frank discussion of his hits and misses, we venture to say that he would have enjoyed the content of this book and not simply its title. We liked it and surely many readers will too.'