"I define the subject matter of the history of economics to be economics which is not read to master present-day econo…"

"Economics, I thus believe, has a useful past, a past that is useful in dealing with the future."

"The giants of economic science during the past two hundred years have been men concerned with the critical policy iss…"

"Well, I'd say, and this is probably a change from what I would have said when I was younger: Have a very healthy resp…"

"While it is tempting to think of the history of economics as the history of a succession of great thinkers who advanc…"

"The writer of a history of economic thought must have, above all else, some principles of selectivity...The contempor…"

"History affects the present – not simply because it is what came before the present but also because it (or, rather, …"

"To find a substitute for laboratory experiments, economists pay close attention to the natural experiments offered by…"

"Currency devaluations stimulated recovery in two ways: allowing nominal interest rates to fall and, so long as people…"

"This ground-plan, conceived by a great architect, exhibits a fundamental metaphysical dualism in Plato’s thought. ...…"