Historiography of Economics

A.W. Bob Coats, who died in 2007, was formerly Head of the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Nottingham, UK. Volume I of his collected papers was published in 1992, and Volume II in 1993.Roger Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham, UK.Bruce Caldwell is Director of the Centre for Political Economy, Duke University, USA.

"Bob Coats’s colleagues have already said goodbye and thank you to him in various obituaries, conference sessions, and biographical articles. But this concluding monument to his extraordinarily wide career is an occasion to do so again. By coincidence, the post that brought this volume to your reviewer also brought him a postcard from Bob’s wife (and collaborator) Sonia and his daughter Louise announcing ‘now volume 3 is out. Yippee!!’ There was always a slight fear that Bob would have already picked out his best work for the first two volumes and that the series would end on a disappointing diminuendo. Not so. Yippee is the word." - John Maloney, University of Exeter Business School, UK, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

• Introduction ‘A. W. (Bob) Coats, 1924-2007’ (with B. Caldwell, C. D. W. Goodwin and M. Rutherford), History of Political Economy 40(3):421-446 Part I: Articles 1. Memoirs of an Economist Watcher, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 2. Interview with Grant Fleming History of Economic Ideas 3. T.W. Hutchison as an Historian of Economics, in Warren Samuels, ed., The Craft of the Historian of Economics 4. Half a Century of Methodological Controversy in Economics: as Reflected in the Writings of T.W. Hutchison, in A. W. Coats, ed., Methodological Controversy in Economics: Historical Essays in Honor of T.W. Hutchison 5. What Mirowski's History Leaves Out,, in Neil de Marchi ed., Non-Natural Social Science: Reflections on the Enterprise of More Heat than Light, History of Political Economy 6. The Pillars of Economic Understanding: A New Magisterial History of Economic Thought?, Journal on the History of Economic Thought 7. History of Political Economy: The AEA and the History of Economics (a review essay), Bulletin of the History of Economics Society 8. Explanations in History and Economics, Social Research 9. Comments on Schabas: The Nature and Significance of the New Economic History ‘Parmenides and the Cliometricians’,' in Daniel Little, ed. On the Reliability of Economic Models 10. What Is American about American Economics?, in Malcolm Rutherford, ed. The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics 11. Research Priorities in the History of Economics, History of Political Economy 12. The First Decade of HOPE (1968-79), History of Political Economy 13. Economics, History and HOPE, Bulletin of the History of Economics Society 14. Situational Determinism in Economics: The Implications of Lastis’s Argument for the Historian of Economics, British Journal of the Ph