ABSTRACT
Economists have not always been on friendly terms with scientists from other fields. More than once, economists have been accused of 'imperialism' or criticized for neglecting the insights obtained in other fields. The history of economics, however, yields manifold examples of interdisciplinary 'borrowing' where economists have adapted concepts and
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
Notes
chapter 1|3 pages
Economic life in nineteenth-century novels
What economists might learn from literature
part |2 pages
The magical mirror: reality and imagination in novels
part |2 pages
Fraud and waste in economic life
chapter 2|11 pages
The beginning of ‘boundaries’: the sudden separation of economics from Christian theology A . M . C . WAT ERMAN
The sudden separation of economics from Christian theology
part 5|1 pages
Economists as demographers
part |2 pages
Sella’s main ideas on what remains to be studied
chapter 7|5 pages
Particles or humans?
Econometric quarrels on Newtonian mechanics and the social realm
part 8|1 pages
Disciplinary developments in Dutch economics and the emergence of the Dutch welfare state (1930–1960)
