Economics Broadly Considered

Introduction: Economics broadly considered: a glance at Warren J. Samuelsâ contributions to economics PART I The history of economic thought 1 The training of the economist in antiquity: the âmirror for princesâ tradition in Alcibiades Major and Aquinasâ On Kingship 2 A quintessential (ahistorical) Tableau conomique: to sum up Pre-and Post-Smith classical paradigms 3 Frank Knight as institutional economist 4 From divergence to convergence: Irving Fisher and John R. Commons as champions of monetary reforms 5 E.H. Chamberlin: oligopoly and oligopolistic interdependence: the issue of space 6 Two phases of Kuznetsâs interest in Schumpeter 7 The AEA and the radical challenge to American social Science PART II Aspects of economic method 8 On the credentials of methodological pluralism 9 Some practical aspects of pluralism in economics 10 What econometrics can and cannot tell us about historical actors: brewing, betting and rationality in London, 1822â"44 PART III The legal-economic nexus 11 Putting the âpoliticalâ back into political economy 12 Output categories for a comparative institutional approach to law and economics 13 On the changing nature of the public utility concept: a retrospective and prospective assessment PART IV Aspects of institutional and Post Keynesian economics 14 The institutional economics of Nobel Prize winners 15 J. Fagg Fosterâs theory of instrumental value 16 Monetary policy in the twenty-first century in the light of the debate between Chartalism and Monetarism 17 1935 where we wereâ"where we are 2000