Böcker av E. Roy Weintraub

MIT and the Transformation of American Economics seeks to remedy the historians’ neglect of the influential and luminary economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The department, bolstered by an influx of innovative young scholars, was one of the most distinguished research economics departments in North America by the late 1950s. In another decade it would become the most highly regarded economics department in the world. This volume documents the history of this process and the ways in which MIT’s rise to prominence coincided with the remarkable transformation of American economics in the postwar period. Many developments influenced this history: the Keynesian revolution, the emergent technical nature of economics, the Cold War, the international hold of American economics, the GI Bill, and MIT’s openness to Jewish economists.

Brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. This volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics.

Internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline of history of economics.

Discusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches.

This is the first full-length survey of current work which examines the compatibility of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Its particular distinction is that it makes accessible, to non-specialists, those extensive modern refinements of general equilibrium theory which are linked to macroeconomics and monetary theory.