Instead, many notable thinkers and societies throughout history have contributed to the field of economics. When Did Economic History Start? Modern economics is attributed to Adam Smith, who ...

So economic history further retreated to economics departments, where many self-described economic historians had already been gathering under the banner of the “new economic history.” ...

GUY ROUTH, THE ORIGIN OF ECONOMIC IDEAS, N.Y.: VINTAGE BOOKS, 1975 In writing this book Guy Routh has done a service to those who feel they ought to study economics but never got around to it, and to ...

That youngster was Robert A. Mundell, the 1999 economics Nobelist and founder and first articulator, with his University of Chicago colleague Arthur B. Laffer, of supply-side economics.

The creators of home economics believed that science would free women from drudgery—and open the door to professional opportunities.

Dr. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford who studies American politics, economic thought and capitalism. She is the author of the forthcoming book “Milton Friedman: The Last ...