Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly considered: the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics.The annual A-volume contains peer-reviewed articles comparable to other...

Two central figures of the defense of classical liberalism against the onslaught of socialism in the mid-twentieth century were F.A. Hayek and Frank H. Knight. Despite their shared purpose and intellectual common ground, Knight criticized Hayek's understanding of liberalism severely. The paper...

Introduction to the publication of the previously unpublished essay "Institutional History and the Classical Economics," by Frank H. Knight. Discusses what the essay tells us about Knight's views about institutionalism and economics around 1930. The proper science of economics, Knight argues in...

Weber's approach to social scientific methodology and his comparative historical sociology were important resources that Knight drew upon in his efforts to create a social science that transcended the terms of the neoclassical-institutionalist debate during the 1920s and 1930s. The paper...