TY - JOUR
AU - Kayatekin, Serap
AB - Cambridge Journal of Economics 2014, 38, 519–529 doi:10.1093/cje/beu017 Advance Access publication 22 April 2014 Samuelson’s ghosts: Whig history and the reinterpretation of economic theory Alan Freeman, Victoria Chick and Serap Kayatekin* The ghost of economics past Over a quarter of a century has passed since the 1987 publication of Paul A. Samuelson’s historiographical manifesto ‘Out of the closet: A program for the Whig history of eco- nomic science’, summarising arguments that had developed during a 16-year debate provoked by his 1971 Jour nal of Economic Literature article on the Marxian transforma- tion problem. Samuelson’s intervention marked a defining turning point in the evolu- tion of contemporary economic thought. In the wake of the economic turmoil that opened with the 2007 financial crash, 20  years after Samuelson’s manifesto, criticisms of the quality of economic thought have multiplied. This special issue of Cambridge Journal of Economics offers a timely re-appraisal of the impact of the Whig-historical programme on the economic thinking and practices that have become the target of today’s critics. The term ‘Whig history’ was originally coined by the English historian Herbert Butterfield (1981 [1931]) to refer to what Peter Boettke (2005) describe as ‘history as written by those perceived to have been the intellectual victors 
TI - Samuelson’s ghosts: Whig history and the reinterpretation of economic theory
JO - Cambridge Journal of Economics
DO - 10.1093/cje/beu017
DA - 2014-05-22
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/samuelson-s-ghosts-whig-history-and-the-reinterpretation-of-economic-mtVxSi038M
SP - 519
EP - 529
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -