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Economists' lives : biography and autobiography in the history of economics
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- Creator
- edited by E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- vii, 402 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822366836, 0822366835
- OCLC
- ocn184680289
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget -- pt. 1. Stage setting. Rediscovering intellectual biography--and its limits / Malachi Hacohen -- Is autobiography anti-academic and uneconomical? Some thoughts on academic autobiography / Jeremy D. Popkin -- pt. 2. Varieties of economists' biographies. Lives in synopsis: the production and use of short biographies by historians of economics / Roger E. Backhouse -- The creation of heroes and villains as a problem in the history of economics / Robert W. Dimand -- The group life as a genre of economists' life writing / William Coleman -- pt. 3. Autobiography and identity. The economy of narrative identity / Paul Johnson Eakin -- Using autobiographical statements to investigate the identity of American economists / Mike Reay -- The role of oral history in the historiography of heterodox economics / Tiago Mata and Frederic S. Lee -- Oral history and the historical reconstruction of Chicago economics / Ross Emmett -- pt. 3. Studies in biography. François Quesnay: a "rural Socrates" in Versailles? / Christine Théré and Loïc Charles -- Some relationships between a scholar's and an entrepreneur's life: the biography of L. Albert Hahn / Jan-Otmar Hesse -- "Between worlds," or an imagined reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about equilibrium and mathematics in the 1920s / Robert Leonard -- Maynard and Virginia: a personal and professional friendship / Craufurd D. Goodwin -- The intimate space of community: John Maynard Keynes and the arts / Patricia Laurence -- pt. 5. The biographer's craft. Biography and autobiography: Harry Johnson / D.E. Moggridge -- Life writings: on-the-job training with F.A. Hayek / Bruce Caldwell -- Reflections of a Marshall biographer / Peter Groenewegen -- A personal afterword / E. Roy Weintraub