From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar

From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicismseeks to change assumptions about American economics during the transformative period between the world wars. The twelve essays by respected economists and historians collected here take a precise look at the mechanisms that brought about the shift from pluralism to neoclassicism in American economics. They discuss such topics as the demise of the Social Gospel Movement, the role of general education and graduate study in Chicago economics, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the transformation of economics through a survey of journal articles, and changes in American monetary thought.Contributors.Roger E. Backhouse, Maacute;rcia L. Balisciano, Bradley W. Bateman, Jeff Biddle, Ross B. Emmett, Crauford D. W. Goodwin, D. Wade Hands, Anne Mayhew, Steven G. Medema, Perry Mehrling, Philip Mirowski, Mary S. Morgan, Malcolm Rutherford, E. Roy Weintraub

American Economics: the Character of the Transformation	p. 1
Contexts of Transformation	p. 27
Clearing the Ground: the Demise of the Social Gospel Movement and the Rise of Neoclassicism in American Economics	p. 29
The Patrons of Economics in A Time of Transformation	p. 53
To Be An Economist	p. 83
The Tranformation of U.S. Economics, 1920-1960, VIewed Through A Survey of Journal Articles	p. 85
Institutional Economics: A Case of Reproductive Failure?	p. 108
Entrenching Disciplinary Competence: the Role of General Education and Graduate Study in Chicago Economics	p. 134
"Market Failure" Or "Market Efficiency"	p. 151
Hope for America: American Notions of Economic Planning Between Pluralism and Neoclassicism, 1930-1950	p. 153
How American Economists Came to Love the Sherman Antitrust Act	p. 179
Wandering the Road from Pluralism to Posner: the Transformation of Law and Economics in the Twentieth Century	p. 202
Mathematics, Formalism, and Style	p. 225
From Rigor to Axiomatics: the Marginalization of Griffith C. Evans	p. 227
A Paradox of Budgets: the Postwar Stabilization of American Neoclassical Demand Theory	p. 260
The Money Muddle: the Transformation of American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970	p. 293
Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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