In this paper I analyse how I became an economist and at the same time a democratic socialist and a Christian. I also explain how I became politically involved after my graduate studies at Cambridge in the late 1950s and started lecturing at Adelaide. When back in Cambridge in the 1960s,...

In this paper I analyse how I became an economist and at the same time a democratic socialist and a Christian. I also explained how I became politically involved after my graduate studies at Cambridge in the late 1950s and started lecturing at Adelaide. When back in Cambridge, teaching in the...

Over the past twenty-five years the Duke history of economics faculty, together with the collection development librarians in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been gathering the papers of notable (mostly) twentieth century economists in what is now called The...

No longer does society consider the full extent of the argument and consequences or benefits of a system change. All the record-breaking economic success of the last few decades simply furthers a divide between people/organizations that have money and people/organizations that need money....

This draft chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics is intended to give advice to instructors who might be teaching a history of economic thought course to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps been teaching for a while but would like to...

The current crisis has triggered significant debate concerning economic theory and policy. Largely absent from this debate is an informed discussion of the methods used by economists in analysing the economy and formulating their proposals. But method matters. Here I argue that current academic...

In this presidential address published in 1902, Edwin Cannan affirms political economy as a vital cultural project. The central lessons to be imparted to society at large concern the principles upon which millions cooperate in creating wealth. He touches on international trade, housing, urban...

While the most recent financial crisis highlighted a myriad of problems within mainstream economics, the call for reform has been widespread, long-standing, and deep-seated. This paper reaffirms this call from a historical perspective, with accelerating climate change adding a sense of urgency....

There are some common laws in the universe. Economists widely accept the principles of Newton's laws of motion. Specific theorems of physics are more eligible analogues to the expressions of economics. Equation of momentum can be the best analogue of equation of exchanges. The virgin form...

CAPITAL is a work of logic; but the conclusions of Capital keep a great distance from that of the reality. However, the academic circles have not yet discovered the real origin of the logical defect in CAPITAL, which has been a logical puzzle perplexing the academic circles for more than a...