Based on meticulous analysis and material that has not been available to non-German reading economists, Stephen Boehm has written a long-overdue assessment of an encyclopedic thinker whose work defies simple categorisation – hard though some may try to enlist his support in partisan...

This thought-provoking book discusses the concept of progress in economics and investigates whether any advance has been made in its different spheres of research. The authors look back at the history, successes and failures of their respective fields and thoroughly examine the notion of...