Capitalism and Freedom

The Theory of Monopolistic Competition.

Preface to the Second Edition Part 1: Philosophical Bearings 1. Aims and Strategy 2. The Underlabourer Conception of Philosophy 3. Philosophy and Science 4. The Philosopher's Concern with Language 5. Conceptual and Empirical Enquiries 6. The Pivotal Role of Epistemology in Philosophy 7. Epistemology and the Understanding of Society 8. Rules: Wittgenstein's Analysis 9. Some Misunderstandings of Wittgenstein Part 2: The Nature of Meaningful Behaviour 1. Philosophy and Sociology 2. Meaningful Behaviour 3. Activities and Precepts 4. Rules and Habits 5. Reflectiveness Part 3: The Social Studies as Science 1. J.S. Mill's 'Logic of the Moral Sciences' 2. Differences in Degree and Differences in Kind 3. Motives and Causes 4. Motives, Dispositions and Reasons 5. The Investigation of Regularities 6. Understanding Social Institutions 7. Prediction in the Social Studies Part 4: The Mind and Society 1. Pareto: Logical and Non-Logical Conduct 2. Pareto: Residues and Derivations 3. Max Weber: Verstehen and Causal Explanation 4. Max Weber: Meaningful Action and Social Action Part 5: Concepts and Actions 1. The Internality of Social Relations 2. Discursive and Non-Discursive 'Ideas' 3. The Social Sciences and History 4. Concluding Remark

The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.

The History of Economic Analysis

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A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 2000{2009

More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics

Contributors: Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham Terence Hutchison, University of Birmingham David Colander, Middlebury College Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame D. Wade Hands, University of Puget Sound Mark Blaug, University of London Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Lawrence A. Boland, Simon Frazer University Daniel M. Hausman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alex Rosenberg, University of California at Riverside Uskali Maki, Academy of Finland Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge Kevin Hoover, University of California at Davis Donald N. McCloskey, University of Iowa Willie Henderson, University of Birmingham Vivienne Brown, The Open University

New Directions in Economic Methodology

Modern economists do not subscribe to a homogeneous definition of their subject. Surveying definitions of economics from contemporary principles of economics textbooks, we find that economics is the study of the economy, the study of the coordination process, the study of the effects of scarcity, the science of choice, and the study of human behavior. At a time when economists are tackling subjects as diverse as growth, auctions, crime, and religion with a methodological toolkit that includes real analysis, econometrics, laboratory experiments, and historical case studies, and when they are debating the explanatory roles of rationality and behavioral norms, any concise definition of economics is likely to be inadequate. This lack of agreement on a definition does not necessarily pose a problem for the subject. Economists are generally guided by pragmatic considerations of what works or by methodological views emanating from various sources, not by formal definitions: to repeat the comment attributed to Jacob Viner, economics is what economists do. However, the way the definition of economics has evolved is more than a historical curiosity. At times, definitions are used to justify what economists are doing. Definitions can also reflect the direction in which their authors want to see the subject move and can even influence practice.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/jep.23.1.221

Retrospectives : On the Definition of Economics

A History of Modern Economic Analysis

Part 1 The ancient world: Homer and Hesiod estate management - Xenophon's "Oikonomikos" Plato's ideal state Aristotle on justice and exchange Aristotle and the acquisition of wealth Rome conclusions. Part 2 The Middle Ages: the decline of Rome Judaism early Christianity Islam from Charles Martel to the Black Death the 12th-century Renaissance and economics in the universities Nicole Oresme and the theory of money conclusions. Part 3 The emergence of the modern world view - the 16th century: the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science the Reformation the rise of the European nation state mercantilism Machiavelli the school of Salamanca and American treasure England under the Tudors economics in the 16th century. Part 4 Science, politics and trade in 17th-century England: background science and the scientists of the Royal Society political ferment economic problems -Dutch commercial power and the crisis of the 1620s the balance-of-trade doctrine the rate of interest and the case for free trade the recoinage crisis of the 1690s economics in 17th-century England. Part 5 Absolutism and Enlightenment in 18th-century France: problems of the absolute state early-18th-century critics of mercantilism Cantillon on the nature of commerce in general the Enlightenment physiocracy Turgot economic thought under the "ancien regime". Part 6 The Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century: background Hutcheson Hume Sir James Steuart Adam Smith division of labour and the market capital accumulation Smith and laissez-faire economic thought at the end of the 18th century. Part 7 Classical political economy, 1790-1870: from moral philosophy to political economy utilitarianism and the philosophical radicals Ricardian economics alternatives to Ricardian economics government policy and the role of the state money John Stuart Mill Karl Marx conclusions. Part 8 The split between history and theory in Europe, 1870-1914: the professionalization of economics Jevons, Walras and mathematical economics economics in Germany and Austria historical economics and the Marshallian School in Britain European economic theory, 1900-1914. Part 9 The rise of American economics, 1870-1939: US economics in the late 19th century John Bates Clark mathematical economics Thorstein Veblen John R. Commons inter-war pluralism inter-war studies of competition the migration of European academics US economics in the mid-20th century. Part 10 Money and the business cycle, 1898-1939: Wicksell's cumulative process the changed economic environment Austrian and Swedish theories of the business cycle Britain - from Marshall to Keynes the American tradition Keynes's "general theory" the Keynsian revolution the transition from inter-war to post-Second World War macroeconomics. Part 11 Econometrics and mathematical economics, 1930 to the present: the mathematization of economics. (Part Contents).

Roger E. Backhouse

Papers

More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics

New Directions in Economic Methodology

Retrospectives : On the Definition of Economics

A History of Modern Economic Analysis

The Penguin History of Economics