Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-7
The Scope of Economics Historically Considered....Pages 8-36
The History of Economic Thought as Intellectual History....Pages 37-55
The State, Law, and Economic Organization....Pages 56-94
A Centenary Reconsideration of Bellamy’s Looking Backward....Pages 95-115
Thorstein Veblen, Heterodox Economist, in Retrospect....Pages 116-122
The Firing of E. A. Ross from Stanford University: Injustice Compounded by Deception?....Pages 123-132
Edwin E. Witte’s Concept of the Role of Government in the Economy....Pages 133-154
The Economy as a System of Power and its Legal Bases: The Legal Economics of Robert Lee Hale....Pages 155-276
Legal Realism and the Burden of Symbolism: The Correspondence of Thurman Arnold....Pages 277-292
Galbraith on Economics as a System of Professional Belief....Pages 293-307
Gardiner C. Means’s Institutional and Post-Keynesian Economics....Pages 308-339
In Praise of Joan Robinson: Economics as Social Control....Pages 340-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-351