State of the History of Economics

Professor James P. Henderson, Valparaiso University, holds degrees from Beloit College and Northern Illinois University. He was President of the History of Economics Society in 1995-96 and is Vice-President of the Association for Social Economics. He is the author of Early Mathematical Economics: William Whewell and the British Case.

• Contributors, INTRODUCTION, 1 THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AND THE HISTORY OF AGENCY, 2 THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL AND FREQUENTIST THEORIES OF PROBABILITY, 3 CYBERPUNK AND CHICAGO, 4 HETEROGENEOUS LABOR IN A SIMPLE RICARDIAN MODEL, 5 INTERNATIONAL TRADE, MACHINERY, AND THE REMUNERATION OF LABOR: A REEXAMINATION OF THE ARGUMENT IN THE THIRD EDITION OF RICARDO’S PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TAXATION, 6 REFLECTIONS ON SCHUMPETER’S HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN LIGHT OF HIS UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, 7 JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASSES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CAPITALISM, 8 HICKS AND LINDAHL ON MONETARY INSTABILITY: ELASTICITY OF PRICE EXPECTATIONS VERSUS ELASTICITY OF INTEREST EXPECTATIONS, 9 (DIS)TRUSTING THE TALE: WERNER SOMBART AND THE NARRATIVE OF ECONOMICS, 10 CROMWELL’S OCCUPATION OF IRELAND AS JUDGED FROM PETTY’S OBSERVATIONS AND MARX’S THEORY OF COLONIALISM, 11 VINCENT DE GOURNAY, OR “LAISSEZ-FAIRE WITHOUT LAISSEZ-PASSER”, 12 STORM OVER ECONOMIC THOUGHT: DEBATES IN FRENCH ECONOMIC JOURNALS, 1750–70, Index