Finding everything you need? See our Contact/FAQ if you have any questions.
1. Setting the Table—Steven G. Medema
2. The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development Economics—Peter Boettke and Steven Horwitz
3. Benevolence, Sympathy, and Hume's Model of Government: How Different Is New Political Economy from Classical Political Economy?—Alain Marciano
4. Are Two Knaves Better Than One? Hume, Buchanan, and Musgrave on Economics and Government—Andrew Farrant and Maria Pia Paganelli
5. Unintended Order and Intervention: Adam Smith's Theory of the Role of the State—Jeffrey T. Young
6. The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading—David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
7. How TRIPs Got Legs: Copyright, Trade Policy, and the Role of Government in Nineteenth-Century American Economic Thought—Stephen Meardon
8. Bringing in the State? The Life and Times of Laissez-Faire in the Nineteenth-Century United States—Bradley W. Bateman
9. Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics—Thomas C. Leonard
10. Walton H. Hamilton and the Public Control of Business—Malcolm Rutherford
11. From Muddling Through to the Economics of Control: Views of Applied Policy from J. N. Keynes to Abba Lerner—David Colander
12. Economists, Government, and Economic Policymaking in Israel: From "Crawling Peg" to "Cold Turkey"—Yakir Plessner and Warren Young
13. From Continental Public Finance to Public Choice: Mapping Continuity—Jürgen G. Backhaus and Richard E. Wagner
14. Corporatism and the Economic Role of Government—António Almodovar and José Luís Cardoso
15. The Rise of Free Market Economics: Economists and the Role of the State since 1970—Roger E. Backhouse
16. The Role of Government in the History of Political Economy: The 2004 HOPE Conference Interpreted and Critiqued by the General Discussant—Warren J. Samuels
17. Contributors
If you are requesting permission to photocopy material for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at copyright.com;
If the Copyright Clearance Center cannot grant permission, you may request permission from our Copyrights & Permissions Manager (use Contact Information listed below).
If you are requesting permission to reprint DUP material (journal or book selection) in another book or in any other format, contact our Copyrights & Permissions Manager (use Contact Information listed below).
Many images/art used in material copyrighted by Duke University Press are controlled, not by the Press, but by the owner of the image. Please check the credit line adjacent to the illustration, as well as the front and back matter of the book for a list of credits. You must obtain permission directly from the owner of the image. Occasionally, Duke University Press controls the rights to maps or other drawings. Please direct permission requests for these images to permissions@dukeupress.edu.
For book covers to accompany reviews, please contact the publicity department.
If you're interested in a Duke University Press book for subsidiary rights/translations, please contact permissions@dukeupress.edu. Include the book title/author, rights sought, and estimated print run.
Instructions for requesting an electronic text on behalf of a student with disabilities are available here.
The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought examines a controversial area of economic analysis: the appropriate role of government within the economic system. If the first two-thirds of the twentieth century were dominated by the active involvement of economists in government policymaking, blurring the lines between the spheres of economics and politics, then the last several decades have witnessed something of a reversion to the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. This volume offers a comprehensive and integrated history of the evolution of the relationship between governments and economies, examining the British classical tradition, the American progressive movement, and corporatist ideology.