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  • 1. Introduction–E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget

    Part 1. Stage Setting Back

    2. Rediscovering Intellectual Biography—and Its Limits –Malachi Hacohen

    3. Is Autobiography Anti-academic and Uneconomical? Some Thoughts on Academic Autobiography¬-Jeremy D. Popkin

    Part 2. Varieties of Economists' Biographies Back

    4. Lives in Synopsis: The Production and Use of Short Biographies by Historians of Economics–Roger E. Backhouse

    5. The Creation of Heroes and Villains as a Problem in the History of Economics–Robert W. Dimand

    6. The Group Life as a Genre of Economists' Life Writing–William Coleman

    Part 3. Autobiography and Identity Back

    7. The Economy of Narrative Identity–Paul John Eakin

    8. Using Autobiographical Statements to Investigate the Identity of American Economists–Mike Reay

    9. The Role of Oral History in the Historiography of Heterodox Economics–Tiago Mata and Frederic S. Lee

    10. Oral History and the Historical Reconstruction of Chicago Economics–Ross Emmett

    Part 4. Studies in Biography Back

    11. François Quesnay: A "Rural Socrates" in Versailles?¬–Christine Théré and Loïc Charles

    12. Some Relationships between a Scholar's and an Entrepreneur's Life: The Biography of L. Albert Hahn¬–Jan-Otmar Hesse

    13. "Between Worlds," or an Imagined Reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about Equilibrium and Mathematics in the 1920s–Robert Leonard

    14. Maynard and Virginia: A Personal and Professional Friendship–

    Craufurd D. Goodwin

    15. The Intimate Spaces of Community: John Maynard Keynes and the Arts–Patricia Laurence

    Part 5. The Biographer's Craft Back

    16. Biography and Autobiography: Harry Johnson–D. E. Moggridge

    17. Life Writings: On-the-Job Training with F. A. Hayek–Bruce Caldwell

    18. Reflections of a Marshall Biographer–Peter Groenewegen

    19. A Personal Afterword–E. Roy Weintraub

    20. Contributors

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  • Description

    This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. The essays consider both the potential and the limits of life writing, which has traditionally been used sparingly by historians of economics, and examine types of biographies, the relationship between autobiography and identity, and the writing of biography.

    Contributors to this collection question whether biography is essential to understanding the history of economic ideas and consider how autobiographical materials should be read and interpreted by historians. Articles consider the treatment of autobiographical materials such as conversations and testimonies, the construction of heroes and villains, the relationship between scientific biography and literary biography, and concerns related to living subjects. Several essays address the role of biography and autobiography in the study of economists such as F. A. Hayek, Harry Johnson, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Oskar Morgenstern, and François Quesnay, concluding with several accounts of the interconnection of the historians’ projects with their own autobiographies.

    All 2007 subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of “Economists’ Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics” as part of their subscription.

    Contributors
    Roger E. Backhouse
    Bruce Caldwell
    Loïc Charles
    William Coleman
    Robert W. Dimand
    Paul John Eakin
    Ross B. Emmett
    Evelyn L. Forget
    Craufurd D. Goodwin
    Peter Groenewegen
    Malachi Haim Hacohen
    Jan-Otmar Hesse
    Patricia Laurence
    Frederic S. Lee
    Robert Leonard
    Tiago Mata
    D. E. Moggridge
    Jeremy D. Popkin
    Mike Reay
    Christine Théré
    E. Roy Weintraub

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