Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-wtssw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-16T08:13:07.688Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Does Scholarship in the History of Economics Have a Useful Future?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

William J. Barber
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Presidential addresses tend to fall into one of two broad categories. Category I speeches-which I shall refer to as the pastoral style speak to the condition of our sub-discipline. Their central themes typically survey the state of the art offer commentary on promising further directions for fruitful research, and provide arguments useful in justifying our existence to skeptics who doubt the utility of studying the works of dead economists.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1990 , pp. 110 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barber, William J. 1985. From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, The Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933, Cambridge University Press, New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barber, William J.. Ed. 1988. Breaking the Academic Mould: Economists and American Higher Learning in the Nineteenth Century, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT.Google Scholar
Coats, A. W. 1988., “The Educational Revolution and the Professionalization of American Economics,” in Barber, 1988.Google Scholar
Ely, Richard T. 1932. “Depression and the 150-year Plan,” in Congressional Record, 05 16.Google Scholar
Ely, Richard T.. 1938. Ground Under Our Feet, Macmillan, New York.Google Scholar
Engels, Frederick. 1885. Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Düring), International Publishers, New York, 1939.Google Scholar
Fukuyama, Francis. 1989. “The End of History?” The National Interest, Summer.Google Scholar
Furner, Mary O. 1975. Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865–1905, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.Google Scholar
Laughlin, J. Laurence. Ed. 1887. Principles of Political Economy By John Stuart Mill, Abridged, with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes and A Sketch of the History of Political Economy, D. Appleton and Co., New York.Google Scholar
Marx, Karl. 1867. Capital, 1, International Publishers, New York, 1967.Google Scholar
Mill, John Stuart. 1848. Principles of Political Economy, edited by W.J. Ashley, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1926.Google Scholar
Stein, Herbert. 1969. The Fiscal Revolution in America, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.Google Scholar
Teilhac, Ernest. 1936. Pioneers of American Economic Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Macmillan, New York.Google Scholar
Tugwell, Rexford Guy. 1932. “The Principle of Planning and the Institution of Laissez-Faire, ” American Economic Review (Supplement), 22, 03, 75–92.Google Scholar
Tugwell, Rexford Guy. 1933. The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts, Columbia University Press, New York.CrossRefGoogle Scholar