The Sociology and Professionalization of

A. W. Coats has made unique contributions to the history of economic thought, the sociology of economics, and economic methodology. This newest volume in the seriesBritish and American Economic Essaysis the first to draw together a substantial portion of his work on the sociology and professionalization of economics. This volume contains the work for which Coats is perhaps most widely known. It gathers his essays on the social nature of economics as a science, the origin and history of some of the institutions which have done the most to shape the development of the discipline, and the issue of economics as a profession. As with the other volumes in the series, there is a particular emphasis on the similarity and differences between economics and economists in Britain and in North America.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The Sociology of Knowledge and the History of Economics	p. 11
The Sociology of Science: Its Application to Economics	p. 37
Is There a 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' in Economics?	p. 58
The Economic and Social Context of the Marginal Revolution of the 1870s	p. 63
The Role of Authority in the Development of British Economics	p. 82
Sociological Aspects of British Economic Thought (ca. 1880-1930)	p. 105
The Culture and the Economists: Some Reflections on Anglo-American Differences	p. 134
The Role of Scholarly Journals in the History of Economics: An Essay	p. 155
The Learned Journals in the Development of Economics and the Economics Profession: The British Case	p. 176
The First Two Decades of the American Economic Association	p. 205
The Political Economy Club: A Neglected Episode in American Economic Thought	p. 225
The American Economic Association, 1904-29	p. 239
The American Economic Association's Publications: An Historical Perspective	p. 264
The Origins of the 'Chicago School(s)'?	p. 280
John Elliotson Symes, Henry George and Academic Freedom in Nottingham During the 1880s	p. 289
The Origins and Early Development of the Royal Economic Society	p. 313
The Changing Social Composition of the Royal Economic Society 1890-1960 and the Professionalization of British Economics	p. 338
Alfred Marshall and the Early Development of the London School of Economics: Some Unpublished Letters	p. 361
The Distinctive LSE Ethos in the Inter-War Years	p. 372
Economics as a Profession	p. 395
The Development of the Agricultural Economics Profession in England	p. 419
The American Economic Association and the Economics Profession	p. 433
The Market for Economists in Britain, 1945-75: A Preliminary Survey	p. 474
Introduction to Economists in Government: An International Comparative Study	p. 496
Britain: The Rise of the Specialists	p. 519
Some Wartime Observations on the Role of the Economist in Government	p. 556
The Changing Role of Economists in Scottish Government Since 1960	p. 580
Economists in Government: An Historical and Comparative Perspective	p. 606
Index	p. 630
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