Economists' lives
Subtitle: biography and autobiography in the history of economics
By: edited by E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget.
Contributors: Weintraub, E. Roy.; Forget, Evelyn L., 1956-
Series: History of political economy -- annual suppl. to v. 39; History of political economy -- 2007.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780822366836
Subjects: Economists -- Biography -- History and criticism; Biography as a literary form
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget; title: pt. 1. Stage setting. Rediscovering intellectual biography; title: and its limits / Malachi Hacohen; title: Is autobiography anti-academic and uneconomical? Some thoughts on academic autobiography / Jeremy D. Popkin; title: pt. 2. Varieties of economists' biographies. Lives in synopsis: the production and use of short biographies by historians of economics / Roger E. Backhouse; title: The creation of heroes and villains as a problem in the history of economics / Robert W. Dimand; title: The group life as a genre of economists' life writing / William Coleman; title: pt. 3. Autobiography and identity. The economy of narrative identity / Paul Johnson Eakin; title: Using autobiographical statements to investigate the identity of American economists / Mike Reay; title: The role of oral history in the historiography of heterodox economics / Tiago Mata and Frederic S. Lee; title: Oral history and the historical reconstruction of Chicago economics / Ross Emmett; title: pt. 3. Studies in biography. François Quesnay: a "rural Socrates" in Versailles? / Christine Théré and Loïc Charles; title: Some relationships between a scholar's and an entrepreneur's life: the biography of L. Albert Hahn / Jan-Otmar Hesse; title: "Between worlds," or an imagined reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about equilibrium and mathematics in the 1920s / Robert Leonard; title: Maynard and Virginia: a personal and professional friendship / Craufurd D. Goodwin; title: The intimate space of community: John Maynard Keynes and the arts / Patricia Laurence; title: pt. 5. The biographer's craft. Biography and autobiography: Harry Johnson / D.E. Moggridge; title: Life writings: on-the-job training with F.A. Hayek / Bruce Caldwell; title: Reflections of a Marshall biographer / Peter Groenewegen; title: A personal afterword / E. Roy Weintraub.