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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
“[E]xcellent volume. . .”—Tyler Cowen, Biography
“[E]xcellent volume. . .”—Tyler Cowen, Biography
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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