Research in the history of economic thought and methodology : a research annual. Volume 19-A / edited by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle.

Includes bibliographical references.

Method choice in the history of econometrics : a decision criteria taxonomy and analysis of the report of econometricians' decision making across source materials / Kirsten K. Madden -- The ship of state in stormy waters / Y.S. Brenner -- A pied piper theory of the rise and fall of states / S. Todd Lowry -- Van Crevald mythhistoricus / Kenneth Mischel -- Van Creveld's analysis of the state : a note / Warren J. Samuels -- Mediating models / Ross B. Emmett -- What are models for? / Stephen Thomas Ziliak -- Political economy of the disaster / Soltan Dzarasov -- Szostak's Econ-art : divorcing art from science in modern economics / Murray Wolfson -- Barber's the works of Irving Fisher / Mark Blaug -- Blaug's third edition of who's who in economics / Warren J. Samuels -- Pasinetti and Schefold's the impact of keynes on economics in the 20th century / Melvin W. Reder -- Legacies and traditions in economics : a review essay / Anthony Brewer -- Martin's Verstehen : the uses of understanding in social science / Tyler Cowen -- Philosophy and economics : separate or connected? / Paul Diesing -- Academic economists and the rest of the world : mostly postmodernist essays / Thomas Mayer -- Patristic persuasion? / Glenn Hueckel -- Henderson and Davis's the life and thought of David Ricardo / Samuel Hollander, Warren J. Samuels, Gilbert B. Davis -- Hollander's the economics of Thomas Robert Malthus / Jeffrey T. Young -- Unpacking Adam Smith : critical theorist? / Spencer J. Pack -- Love and death : the wealth of Irving Fisher / Perry Mehrling -- The economy of James Branch Cabell / Warren J. Samuels -- Wesley Clair Mitchell's money economy and economic efficiency / Jeff Biddle, Luca Fiorito -- Wesley Clair Mitchell's money economy and economic efficiency / Luca Fiorito.

In addition to two sets of multiple reviews plus thirteen single reviews, this work includes three articles on the history of economic thought and one on methodology. The former are articles on the interpretation of Adam Smith, on Irving Fisher, and on certain economic aspects of the work of a literary figure, James Branch Cabell. The former is an article on econometricians' decision making as to choice of method. In addition, an important paper by Wesley Clair Mitchell on the money economy and economic efficiency is published with an interpretive introduction.