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History of political economy, annual suppl. to v. 39

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.

Economists > Biography > History and criticism.