...E. Roy Weintraub In this review essay of Steven G. Medema and Anthony M. C. Waterman's collection of some of Paul Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written “Whig history” is spurious. Moreover, the author argues that Samuelson's own...

... . 2 : 127 -68. Peltzman , S. 1991 . The Handbook of Industrial Organization: A Review Article. Journal of Political Economy 99 ( February ): 201 -17. Samuelson , P. A. 1987 . Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Economic Science. History of Economics Society...

... questions. That certainly is true in the subfield that I try to stay abreast of, that of labor economics. ’ I think that she is also right to observe that most mainstream economists are unlikely to be inter- ested in anything other than a Whig history of economics. Indeed, one could probably go...

...: Vintage Books. Samuelson, Paul A. 1987 . Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Economic Science. History of Economics Society Bulletin 9.1 : 51 -60. Smith, Adam. [1759] 1976 . The Theory of Moral Sentiments . Edited by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie. Oxford: Oxford University...

... . What Classical and Neoclassical Monetary Theory Really Was Canadian Journal of Economics 1 . 1 : 1 -15. Samuelson , Paul A. 1987 . Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Economic Science History of Economics Society Bulletin 9 . 1 : 51 -60. Samuelson , Paul A. 1988...

... captured the very essence of those ideas better than even their inventors them- selves understood them. In short, they claim to have eaten their cake and to have had it too. They practice what is otherwise known as the “Whig history of sci- ence” and they do so in all innocence. Since Sraffa has...

... for current economics as con- trasted to antiquarianism-is important. She is inclined to grant that economists will pay attention to studies of the history of economics that are relevant for their concerns, but she does not want us to pander to that taste. She calls Whig history of science ‘‘pa~sC...

... on the Possibilities. In New Directions in Economic Methodology , edited by Roger Backhouse. London:Routledge. Henderson, James P. 1996. Whig History of Economices Is Dead. R.I.P—Now What? www2.eh.net/HE/hes_list/Editorials/Henderson.php . Hollander, Sam. 1979 . The Economics of David Ricardo . Toronto...

... – 49 . Samuelson , P. 1978 . “ The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy .” Journal of Economic Literature 16 : 1415 – 34 . Samuelson , P. 2014 . “ Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Economic Science .” In Paul Samuelson on the History of Economic...

.... HOPE 6 : 243 -45. Samuels , Warren J. . 1974b . The History of Economic Thought as Intellectual History. HOPE 6 : 305 -23. Samuelson , Paul . 1987 . Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Economic Science. History of Economics Society Bulletin 9 : 51 -60...

... formalizations of old ideas. Since the vast majority of contemporary economists show little awareness of the history of their field, when they turn to current history as they regularly and perhaps increasingly now do in the form of survey articles, it seems almost inevitably to generate whig history...

..., 1993. 426 pp. 59DM. This book, a rare blend of economic history and history of economic thought, is an antithesis to the Whig histories of economic theory. Burgin’s account of the genesis of economic ideas in specific political and social contexts is framed in opposition to those who write...

...: The Invention of a Discipline, 1850–1950 . New York : Oxford University Press . Weintraub , E. Roy . 2002 . How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Wilson , Adrian , and T. G. Ashplant . 1988 . “ Whig History and Present-Centred...

... that appear . . . are not assigned to particu- lar schools of thought (ix). Instead of Whig history, we examine the manner in which changes in human activity directed to sustaining life and wealth have been for- mulated. It is historical not only in dealing with past ideas and policies but in seeking...

... Classical Economists: A Reply. Journal of Economic Literature 18 . 2 : 575 -78. Samuelson , Paul A. 1987 . Out of the Closet: A Program for the Whig History of Science. History of Economics Society Bulletin 9 . 1 : 51 -60. Reprinted in Blaug 1991 . Samuelson , Paul A. 1988 . Keeping...

.... The various texts and writers that appear . . . are not assigned to particu- lar schools of thought (ix). Instead of Whig history, we examine the manner in which changes in human activity directed to sustaining life and wealth have been for- mulated. It is historical not only in dealing with past ideas...

... Mendel (indeed the dates of their respective writings and posthumous resurrections were almost the same). Marx has much to offer any histo- rian of economics interested in more than Whig history. To suggest that we should not bother, because time is scarce (as Brewer suggests), is just to remind...

... Discourse. This echoes Schum- peter s conception of discontinuous progress exacerbated by two special properties of economics, both at odds with a Whig history of progress: Schumpeter (1954: 6) con- siders (i) the subject matter of economics a unique historical process. Moreover, (ii) the filiation...

... At the time, I saw my own motivations as being very different from those who created these Whig histories. I was not yet sure of my own theoretical commitments, but it seemed that it ought to be possible to get a clear fix on Keynes’s ideas on probability, and that the proper in- terpretation...

... of economic thought, Austrian economists have tended to apply intellectual history in an instrumental, rather than an antiquarian manner.15 Furthermore, they have tended to waffle be- tween Whig and contra-Whig perspectives depending on where they 15. The terms instrumental and antiquarian are used...