The economist as preacher

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Author(s): George Joseph Stigler
Publisher: Blackwell
Year: 1982

Language: English
City: Oxford

Contents
Part One Economics or Ethics?
1 The Economist as Preacher
2 The Ethics of Competition:
The Friendly Economists
3 The Ethics of Competition:
The Unfriendly Critics
4 The Economists and the Problem of Monopoly
Part Two The Sociology of the History of Science
5 Do Economists Matter?
6 Textual Exegesis as a
Scientific Problem
7 The Adoption of the Marginal Utility Theory
8
The Scientific Uses of Scientific Biography, with Special Reference to J. S. Mill
9 .Merton on Multiples, Denied and Affirmed
Part Three History of Economic Thought
10 Does Economics Have a Useful Past?
11 The Economist and the State
12 Smith's Travels on the Ship of State
13 The Successes and Failures of
Professor Smith
14 Mill on Econo
mics and Society
15 Henry Calvert Simons
Part Four Quantitative Studies
16 The Pattern of Citation Practices
in Economics
17 The Citation Practices of Doctorates in Economics
18 The Literature of Economics: The Case of the Kinked Oligopoly Demand Curve
References
Bibliography of Works by George J. Stigler