The social science of economics / Brian J. Loasby -- Economics and literature / Bruna Ingrao -- Happiness : what Kahneman could have learnt from Pietro Verri / Pier Luigi Porta -- Newtonian physics, experimental moral philosophy and the shaping of political economy / Sergio Volodia Cremaschi --...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the methodological role of the history of thought in economic theorizing. The connection is drawn between Adam Smith's use of the history of ideas for his own theorizing on the one hand and his espousal of the Newtonian experimental method on the other....