Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology

摘要

Considers the importance of the study of the history of ideas in the context of the writings of economists. Discusses the history of economic thought as an intellectual discipline; five methodological detours; information and investment in a wider context; classical economics—an overview; Alfred Marshall's world in his correspondence; Edwin Cannan—theory and the history of economic thought; Friedrich August von Hayek; Hayek—the union of law and economics; Hayek in the history of economic thought; John Ramsay McCulloch and the literature of economics; and Paul Samuelson—the theorist as historian of economic thought.