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biography and autobiography in the history of economics

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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham, London
Series
History of political economy -- annual suppl. to v. 39, History of political economy -- 2007.

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vii, 402 p. ;
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OL14565335M
ISBN 10
0822366835
ISBN 13
9780822366836
OCLC/WorldCat
184680289
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5307359
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