Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy

This is a collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

The principal topics are the nature and scope of economics as an intellectual venture, realistic theories of the economic role of government, including the economy as a system of power and its legal bases, and economics as "psychic balm", professionalized discourse and social control.

Among the individuals whose work is singled-out are Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, Edwin E.

Witte, Robert Lee Hale, John Kenneth Galbraith, Thurman Arnold, Gardiner Means and Joan Robinson.