Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of EconomicsE. Roy Weintraub, Evelyn L. Forget Duke University Press, 2007 - 402 páginas This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. The essays consider both the potential and the limits of life writing, which has traditionally been used sparingly by historians of economics, and examine types of biographies, the relationship between autobiography and identity, and the writing of biography. Contributors to this collection question whether biography is essential to understanding the history of economic ideas and consider how autobiographical materials should be read and interpreted by historians. Articles consider the treatment of autobiographical materials such as conversations and testimonies, the construction of heroes and villains, the relationship between scientific biography and literary biography, and concerns related to living subjects. Several essays address the role of biography and autobiography in the study of economists such as F. A. Hayek, Harry Johnson, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Oskar Morgenstern, and François Quesnay, concluding with several accounts of the interconnection of the historians' projects with their own autobiographies. All 2007 subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of "Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics" as part of their subscription. Contributors |
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... literature , an attempt to pass off words on paper for what they could never be : an accurate representa- tion of truth about the world . And there were those , such as James Olney ( 1972 ) , Philippe Lejeune ( 1989 ) , and Paul John ...
... literature on this issue , the great bulk of which is hostile to the thesis that protection increases real wages , and refer to some previ- ous arguments that have a similarity with Brigden's . The authors do not refer to the Enquiry ...
... literature , in the written record of URPE's Newsletter , most dramatically in its August 1975 issue.23 Elsewhere in the secondary literature these debates are ignored , both in the intellectual his- tories ( Gintis 1980 , 1984 ) and in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Is Autobiography Antiacademic and Uneconomical? | 30 |
The Production and Use | 51 |
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