The sociology and professionalization of economics /
[Book]
A.W. Bob Coats.
New York :
Routledge,
1993.
xii, 642 pages ;
24 cm.
British and American economic essays ;
v. 2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Sociology of Knowledge and the History of Economics -- 3. The Sociology of Science: Its Application to Economics -- 4. Is There a 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' in Economics? -- 5. The Economic and Social Context of the Marginal Revolution of the 1870s -- 6. The Role of Authority in the Development of British Economics -- 7. Sociological Aspects of British Economic Thought (ca. 1880-1930) -- 8. The Culture and the Economists: Some Reflections on Anglo-American Differences -- 9. The Role of Scholarly Journals in the History of Economics: An Essay -- 10. The Learned Journals in the Development of Economics and the Economics Profession: The British Case -- 11. The First Two Decades of the American Economic Association -- 12. The Political Economy Club: A Neglected Episode in American Economic Thought -- 13. The American Economic Association, 1904-29 -- 14. The American Economic Association's Publications: An Historical Perspective -- 15. The Origins of the 'Chicago School(s)'? -- 16. John Elliotson Symes, Henry George and Academic Freedom in Nottingham During the 1880s -- 17. The Origins and Early Development of the Royal Economic Society -- 18. The Changing Social Composition of the Royal Economic Society 1890-1960 and the Professionalization of British Economics / A.W. Coats and Sonia E. Coats -- 19. Alfred Marshall and the Early Development of the London School of Economics: Some Unpublished Letters.
20. The Distinctive LSE Ethos in the Inter-War Years -- 21. Economics as a Profession -- 22. The Development of the Agricultural Economics Profession in England -- 23. The American Economic Association and the Economics Profession -- 24. The Market for Economists in Britain, 1945-75: A Preliminary Survey / A.W. Coats and Alan Booth -- 25. Introduction to Economists in Government: An International Comparative Study -- 26. Britain: The Rise of the Specialists -- 27. Some Wartime Observations on the Role of the Economist in Government / A.W. Coats and Alan Booth -- 28. The Changing Role of Economists in Scottish Government Since 1960 -- 29. Economists in Government: An Historical and Comparative Perspective.