Language of Economics

Robert E. Mitchell is a retired Foreign Service Officer and former Professor of urban and regional studies at Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Florida State University. He also directed two survey research centers, served as executive director of two state-level task forces, and headed a national task force on family policy. He served as a Behavioral Science Adviser for the Near East Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development, followed by long-term Foreign Service posts in Egypt, Yemen, and Guinea-Bissau.

• 1 Economists' Epistemological Challenges.- 2 The Trajectory of the First Social Science.- 3 An Overview of Socially Constructed Mental Models and Vocabularies.- 4 From Metaphor to Fact: The Early History of Creating a New Language of Markets & Economies.- 5 Value Judgments Regarding the Meaning of Wealth.- 6 Alternative Values and Mental Models: The Recurring Challenge of Inequality.- 7 The Long-Standing Interest in the Meanings, Causes, and Consequences of Inequality.-8 Is the Past a Reliable Prologue for the Future of Economics?.