ABSTRACT
Fifteen years ago Mark Perlman delivered his Presidential address to the History of Economics Society on: “Perceptions of our Discipline: Three Magisterial Treatments of the Evolution of Economic Thought.” 1 Now, after decades of work on the project “in embryo,” he has completed (in cooperation with Charles R. McCann, Jr.) the first installment of his own potentially magisterial opus: The Pillars of Economic Understanding: Ideas and Traditions. 2 The question whether this work in fact achieves magisterial status must, however, be deferred, for an additional “companion” volume, subtitled Factors and Markets, 3 has yet to appear.
