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Working Papers

2023

1. Review of “Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy” by Elizabeth Popp Berman
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
2. SMITH AT 300: SMITH ON EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2020

3. Introduction: Whose Social Problems?
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2006

4. From philanthropy to "altruism": incorporating unselfish behavior into economics, 1961-1975
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article From Philanthropy to Altruism: Incorporating Unselfish Behavior into Economics, 1961-1975, History of Political Economy, Duke University Press (2007) View citations (10) (2007)

Journal Articles

2024

1. THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY AT FIFTY: WHAT KIND OF DIVERSITY?
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2024, 46, (4), 535-543

2023

2. Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. x, 329, $35 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691167381. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1vtz8n7
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 45, (3), 520-523
3. SMITH AT 300: EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY: LESSONS FOR OUR TIME
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 45, (2), 217-219

2018

4. Economics and Other Social Sciences: A Historical Perspective
   Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 2018, 52, (2), 7-44 View citations (2)

2016

5. Jamie Cohen-Cole, The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. viii, 397, $45 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-226-09216-4
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2016, 38, (1), 113-116
6. Other Histories of Recent Economics: A Survey
   History of Political Economy, 2016, 48, (3), 373-421 View citations (1)

2014

7. FREE RIDING
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2014, 36, (3), 359-376 View citations (2)

2013

8. Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, eds., Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xviii, 270, hardback, $90. ISBN: 978-0-230-34050-3
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2013, 35, (1), 115-119

2012

9. Beyond Altruism? Economics and the Minimization of Unselfish Behavior, 1975-93
   History of Political Economy, 2012, 44, (2), 195-233 View citations (6)

2010

10. Conclusions: The Identity of Economics—Image and Reality
    History of Political Economy, 2010, 42, (5), 343-351
11. Introduction: History of Economics as History of Social Science
    History of Political Economy, 2010, 42, (5), 1-21 View citations (2)
12. Marion Fourcade: Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2010, 21, (2), 202-205
13. THE HOMELESS OBSERVER: JOHN HARSANYI ON INTERPERSONAL UTILITY COMPARISONS AND BARGAINING, 1950–1964
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, 32, (2), 145-173

2008

14. Luigino Bruni, Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective. (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. xvi, 169, $140. ISBN 0-415-32628-1
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2008, 30, (3), 410-413

2007

15. From Philanthropy to Altruism: Incorporating Unselfish Behavior into Economics, 1961-1975
    History of Political Economy, 2007, 39, (1), 1-46 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper From philanthropy to "altruism": incorporating unselfish behavior into economics, 1961-1975, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2006) View citations (1) (2006)
16. HARSANYI BEFORE ECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTION*
    Economics and Philosophy, 2007, 23, (3), 343-348
17. The Political Element in Economic Thought
    History of Political Economy, 2007, 39, (4), 567-570 View citations (1)

2004

18. Richard Titmuss on social cohesion: a comment
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 20, (3), 795-797 View citations (1)

2001

19. The Changing Place of Empathy in Welfare Economics
    History of Political Economy, 2001, 33, (3), 387-410 View citations (4)

2000

20. Making use of the past: theorists and historians on the economics of altruism
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2000, 7, (3), 407-422 View citations (12)

1999

21. Book Reviews
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 1999, 6, (2), 297-303
22. Classical Political Economy between Two Fires: Jean-Baptiste Say and Frank H. Knight on the Enterprise Economy
    History of Political Economy, 1999, 31, (1), 1-28 View citations (3)

1998

23. The Metaphoric Entrepreneur: A Comment on CoÅŸgel
    History of Political Economy, 1998, 30, (2), 277-283

1997

24. Book Reviews
    History of Economics Review, 1997, 26, (1), 146-190
25. Identification and Economic Behavior Sympathy and Empathy in Historical Perspective
    Economics and Philosophy, 1997, 13, (2), 261-280 View citations (17)
26. Turgot's “Institutional Individualismâ€
    History of Political Economy, 1997, 29, (1), 1-20

1996

27. The French Economists and Politics, 1750-1850: The Science and Art of Political Economy
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (2), 379-93 View citations (3)

1995

28. « Stock » et « Capital » dans The Wealth of Nations: traduire pour comprendre
    L'Actualité Economique, 1995, 71, (4), 498-506

1993

29. La Pensée économique pendant la Révolution française, edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Philippe Steiner. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble, 1990. Pp. 659. FF165.00. ISBN 2-7061-0397-3
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1993, 15, (1), 150-153
30. The Capitalist Entrepreneur In Eighteenth-Century Economic Literature
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1993, 15, (1), 72-89 View citations (2)
31. The Concept of Industrie from the Physiocrats to J.-B. Say
    Contributions to Political Economy, 1993, 12, 89-97
32. The Lost Art of Economics: Correspondence
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (3), 209-11 View citations (1)

1992

33. La théorie de l’entrepreneur de Turgot: commentaire
    L'Actualité Economique, 1992, 68, (3), 515-523

Books

2010

1. The History of the Social Sciences since 1945
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (12)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2010) View citations (12)

Edited books

2020

1. Society on the Edge
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (2)
2. Society on the Edge
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (2)

2018

3. A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2014

4. A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (5)