This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new … understanding of the nature of applied work and hence of economics itself. …

informed in Japan’s economics and economy. This paper aims to examine how he managed to communicate with Japanese economists … modern economists and try to communicate with them on economic issues based on a common knowledge of economics. By sharing …

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an … attempts to define economics and its method from John Stuart Mill's economics as the science of wealth through Lionel Robbins …

research, public choice theory and new institutional economics. Due to its ample nature, different economists have different …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …