This paper is an introduction to a volume commemorating the life and work of Mark Blaug, a famous historian of economics.

This paper is an introduction to a volume commemorating the life and work of Mark Blaug, a famous historian of economics.

'This is a wonderful book to read that analyzes an idiosyncratic and polymath economist that hardly left his audiences or his readers indifferent. Those who knew Mark Blaug will recognize the man, the intellectual, the economist, and the historian of ideas in the chapters included in the volume....