Note: This history of economics at William & Mary is taken from a paper published in Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. 6 (1988), pp. 110-123. Since that time other works on the early ...

Danielle Dreilinger's "The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live" is a fascinating history of the field and of the ...

The study of the History of Economic Thought traces the evolution of economic ideas across centuries, from classical analyses of market dynamics and moral philosophy to contemporary methodological ...

Steven Medema, author of The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics, reveals the very first of those milestones: Works and Days, an 8th century B.C ...

What do you picture when you hear the phrase “home economics?” Do you think of a high school classroom full of sewing machines, pots and pans, mops and brooms — in other words, a vestige of our sexist ...

Vol. 24, No. 3, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: Economics in the Crisis and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity: STOREP 2015: Special Issue (2016), pp. 29-46 (18 pages) This paper presents a quantitative ...

Those readers whose memories of home economics class are dominated by muffin tins and sewing machines might be surprised to learn about Caroline Hunt, an early innovator in the field. Hunt had no ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Virginia Postrel THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power ...

The great Canadian economist Reuven Brenner once referred to macroeconomics as “a tautology and a myth, a dangerous one at that, sustaining the illusion that prosperity is necessarily linked with ...

Tim Sullivan, co-author with Ray Fisman of “The Inner Lives of Markets,” on how we shape economic theory — and how it shapes us. Tim Sullivan, co-author with Ray Fisman of “The Inner Lives of Markets, ...

Editor’s note: Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a professor of community and social economic development at John Jay College (CUNY), and the author of “Collective Courage: A History of African American ...