On the Methodology and History of Economics

The following are assorted links on the history and methodology of economics.

Tracts on the "Scope and Method" of Economics (in chronological order)

• Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, by John Stuart Mill, 1844
• The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy, by John E. Cairnes, 1857.
• "The Method and Province of Political Economy", by Simon Newcomb, 1875, North American Review 
• "Political Economy a Science -- of What?" by Lyman Atwater, 1880, Princeton Review
• "The Method of Political Economy", by D. McG. Means, 1883, New Englander and Yale review
• The Scope and Method of Political Economy, by John Neville Keynes, 1891
• "Economic Theorizing and Scientific Progress" by Jacob Hollander, 1916, AER
• "Tendencies in Economic Theory - Discussion", 1916 AER 
• "The Historical Approach to Economics", by Isaac A. Loos, 1918, AER
• "The Psychological Basis for the Economic Interpretation of History" by William F. Ogburn, 1919, AER
• "The Psychological Basis for the Economic Interpretation of History: Comment" by Frank A. Fetter, 1919, AER
• "The Institutional Approach to Economic Theory" by Walton H. Hamilton, 1919, AER
• "Economic Theory--Discussion", 1919, AER
• "Price Economics Versus Welfare Economics", by Frank A. Fetter,1920, AER
• "Price Economics Versus Welfare Economics: Contemporary Opinion", by Frank A. Fetter, 1920, AER
• "A Revaluation of Traditional Economic Theory", Carl E. Parry, 1921, AER
• "Soundings in Non-Euclidian Economics", by John Maurice Clark, 1921, AER 
• "Traditional Economic Theory - Discussion", 1921, AER
• "Measurement without Theory", by Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1947, REStat.(PDF)
• "A Reply to Vining", by Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1949, REStat.(PDF)
• .A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training, by Jacob Viner, 1950 (PDF version)
• "The Non-Econometrician's Lament" by Dennis H. Robertson
• "Economic Theory and Mathematics: An appraisal", by Paul A. Samuelson, 1952, AER (PDF)
• "Recent Developments in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics: An Expository Session", 1953, American Economic Review(PDF)
• "Selected Topics in Economics Involving Mathematical Reasoning"  by Tjalling C. Koopmans and A.F. Bausch, 1959, SIAM Review(PDF)
• "Is the Theory of Competitive Equilibrium With It?", by Tjalling C. Koopmans, 1974, AER.(PDF)
• "General Economic Equilibrium: Purpose, analytic techniques, collective choice", by Kenneth J. Arrow, 1974, AER.
• "Inflation and Unemployment", by Milton Friedman, 1977, JPE.
• "The Use of Models: Experience and prospects", by Jan Tinbergen, 1981, AER
• "The Constitution of Economic Policy", by James M. Buchanan, 1987, AER
• "Economic Theory in a Mathematical Mode: the Nobel lecture", by Gerard Debreu, 1984, AER.
• "The Mathematization of Economic Theory", by Gerard Debreu, 1991, AER.
• "The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism comes to America", by E.Roy Weintraub and Philip Mirowski, 1994, Science in Context
• "The Irony In/Of Economic Theory" by M. Ali Khan, 1993, MLN
• Critique of Economic Reason by Kenneth M. Stokes (1992)
• A Metatheoretical Discourse by Kenneth M. Stokes 
• "Does Austrian Economics Have a Useful Future?" 1997 Presidential Address to SDAE by Karen I. Vaughn (MS Word)
• "Notes on the Meaning of 'Competition' in Economic Thought" (from lecture by Louis Makowski, 1983) at Co-opetition.
• "The Chicago Counter-Revolution and the Sociology of Knowledge" by Robert Leeson, 1997
• "The State of Modern Economics" by Mark Blaug, 1998, Challenge
• "The Problem with Formalism', by Mark Blaug, 1998, Challenge
• "Economics, Philosophy of" by Daniel Hausman, 1998, from Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Philosophy of Economics" by Daniel Hausman, (for IESS)
• "Modern Economics and its Critics, 1", by Partha S. Dasgupta, 1998
• "Is Macroeconomic Believable?" by Ben Bolch, 1998, Independent Review
• "On the Relationship between History and Economics: the Influence of German Economic Culture in Italy" by Piero Barucci, 1999, SdPE
• "The Use of Mathematics in Economics" by Sheila Dow
• Economic Theory and Methodology - course by Steve Keen at Western Sydney
• Debunking Economics by Steve Keen, 2000/1

On History of Economic Thought as a Discipline

• Guest Editorials at the History of Economics Services (HES)
• "What defines a legitimate contribution to the subdiscipline "The History of Economics"?" by E. Roy Weintraub (September, 1996) - expanded version 
• "Whig History of Economics is Dead -- Now What?" by James P. Henderson (November, 1996)
• "SSK as a Resource for the History of Economic Thought" by D. Wade Hands (January, 1997)
• "The Economics of Scientific Knowledge" by John Davis (February, 1997)
• " History of Thought: In Search of the Missing Adjective" by Tim Alborn, (April, 1997)
• "Societies, Journals and Research in the History of Economics" by John Lodewijks (October, 1997)
• "Taxonomy in History of Economics" by J. Daniel Hammond (May, 1997)
• "Stigler's Gauntlet" by Robert Leeson
• "Preface to Japanese edition of Stabilizing Dynamics", by E. Roy Weintraub, 1994

Some Old Histories of Economic Thought

• Histoire de l'économie politique en Europe (Volume 1, Volume 2) by Adolphe-Jérôme Blanqui, 1837-8
• Les progrès de la science économique depuis Adam Smith : révision des doctrines économiques  (Vol. 1, Vol. 2) by Maurice Block
• Dictionnaire de l'économie politique (Volume 1, Volume 2 ) of Charles Coquelin, 1852.
• Nouveau dictionnaire d'économie politique (Volume1, Volume 2, Suppl.) by  Léon Say and Joseph Chailley, 1900
• The British Economists by John Shield Nicholson, 1907.

On Economics in the "Real World"

• "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" by Robert H. Frank, Thomas Gilovich, and Dennis T. Regan, J of Econ Perspectives 
• "What Do Economists Contribute?" by Daniel Klein, 1999
• "Can Economists Save Economics?" by Richard Parker, 1993, American Prospect
• "Beware of Economists Bearing Advice" by Daniel Hausman, 1997, Policy Options (PDF)
• "The Surrender of Economic Policy" by James K. Galbraith, 1996, American Prospect
• "Summers's Day: Should an economist be in charge of the economy? " by John B. Judis, 2000, New Republic
• Political Origins of Neoclassical Economics by Carl Ciappora
• "Les économistes ont-ils une aversion pour la démocratie ?" by Gilles St Paul, Catallaxia

Archives of Essays and Editorials on HET and Methodology

• History of Political Economy -- journal as archived on Project Muse
• Storia del pensiero economico - partly archived online.
• Economic Sociology Editorial Series
• Bibliography on the Sorry State of Economics at Center for Advanced Macroeconomic Policy, Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Assorted Links on Economics

• Book review of Kadish and Tribe (eds), The Market for Political Economy.
• "Why Look Under the Hood?" by Daniel Hausman, 1992, from Philosophy of Economics
• "Play it Again, Samuelson", 1997, The Economist
• "What in the world happened to economics?", 1999, Fortune
• "Le capitalisme est-il réformable?" by Bernard Levasseur, 2000, Esprit
• Econoclaste 
  

On Economics Teaching

• "Instauerer le pluralisme dans l'enseignement de l'economie" by Patrick Salin, 200, Le Quebecqois livre 
• World Students' Petition: Open letter from economic students to professors and others responsible for the teaching of this discipline
• World Teachers' Petition: Petition for a Debate on the Teaching of Economics
• "From Textbook to Hypertext in Undergraduate Economics", by Herb Thompson, 1999
• "Course Design for the WWW - Keeping Online Students Onside" by Allison Brown and Herb Thompson, 1997
• "Genesis of an American Image: or Making sense of transatlantic misunderstandings" with M. Crozier and M. Berry, 1994

General Links

• Liberty Fund Contributors Forum
• Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
• Amsterdam Research Group in History and Methodology of Economics
• LSE Center for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences
• Cambridge Realist Workshop
• The Region - Interviews with Economists
• American Prospect - Economic Archives
• Reason Magazine
• Eliohs - Electronic Library of Modern Historiography