Is there progress in economics : knowledge truth and the history of economic thought pt. 1. Progress : a contested concept pt. 2. Progress in the history of ideas : alternative approaches pt. 3. Roundtable : is there progress in economics pt. 4. Normative economics pt. 5. Monetary economics pt. 6. Trade and location pt. 7. Currents of thought pt. 8. Reflections on the classical long period method This thought provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of progress from an epistemological and methodological perspective