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British economist and historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alfred William "Bob" Coats was a British economist, economic historian and historian of economic thought. He made important contributions to the study of the history, methodology, sociology, professionalisation and internationalisation of economics, and was for many decades a central figure in professional societies in these specialised fields.
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- The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. (1935) (1275)
- The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. (1982) (682)
- The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority (1979) (134)
- Long Waves of Capitalist Development: The Marxist Interpretation. (1981) (131)
- Retrospect and Prospect (1972) (86)
- The post-1945 internationalization of economics (1996) (82)
- Is There a "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in Economics? (1969) (76)
- Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. (1993) (72)
- CHANGING ATTITUDES TO LABOUR IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1958) (72)
- The Role of Scholarly Journals in the History of Economics: An Essay (1971) (59)
- The American Economic Association and the Economics Profession (1985) (57)
- Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society: The Edinburgh Review, 1802-1832. (1987) (56)
- Welfare Policy and Industrialization in Europe, America, and Russia (1974) (54)
- Sociological Aspects of British Economic Thought (ca. 1880-1930) (1967) (53)
- The sociology and professionalization of economics (1993) (50)
- The development of economics in Western Europe since 1945 (2000) (46)
- Political Economy and the Tariff Reform Campaign of 1903 (1968) (43)
- Economists in Government: An International Comparative Study. (1983) (39)
- Method and Appraisal in Economics: Economics and psychology: the death and resurrection of a research programme (1976) (38)
- The classical economists and economic policy (1971) (37)
- Contemporary Economic thought. The Contribution of Neo-Institutional Economics (1974) (36)
- The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics: British and American Economic Essays, Volume II. (1995) (36)
- The Historist Reaction in English Political Economy 1870-90 (1954) (35)
- The American Intellectual ∗∗∗Elite (1977) (32)
- The Influence of Veblen's Methodology (1954) (30)
- Rubbernecking or Rejuvenation: Post Earthquake Perceptions and the Implications for Business Practice in a Dark Tourism Context (2013) (28)
- The historiography of economics (2014) (28)
- The American Economic Association's Publications: An Historical Perspective (1969) (27)
- Research Priorities in the History of Economics (1969) (27)
- The Economic and Social Context of the Marginal Revolution of the 1870's (1972) (26)
- Prophets of Prosperity: America's First Political Economists (1982) (25)
- Some Wartime Observations on the Role of the Economist in Government (1980) (22)
- The Origins and Early Development of The Royal Economic Society (1968) (22)
- Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics: A Statistical Approach. (1983) (22)
- Economists in International Agencies: An Exploratory Study (1986) (21)
- The Role of Authority in the Development of British Economics (1964) (20)
- The cost of the war, 1914-1919 : British economic war aims and the origins of reparation (1977) (20)
- Economic Thought And Poor Law Policy In The Eighteenth Century (1960) (20)
- The Appointment of Pigou as Marshall's Successor: Comment (1972) (20)
- From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D.P. O'Brien (review) (2002) (19)
- On the history of economic thought (1992) (18)
- Economic Doctrine and Tory Liberalism, 1824-30. (1979) (17)
- The distinctive LSE ethos in the inter-war years (1982) (17)
- Explanation in social history (1988) (17)
- The Rhetoric of Economists: A Comment (1984) (16)
- The Historical Context of the "New" Economic History. (1980) (15)
- Samuel Hollander's Mill: A Review Article (1987) (15)
- The Discovery of Abundance, Simon N. Patten and the Transformation of Social Theory. (1971) (15)
- Roundtable: The Progress of Heterodox Economics (2000) (15)
- The Relief of Poverty, Attitudes to Labour, and Economic Change in England, 1660–1782 (1976) (13)
- CONTRARY MORALITIES:PLEBS, PATERNALISTS AND POLITICAL ECONOMISTS (1972) (13)
- The Politics of Political Economists: Comment (1960) (13)
- VALUE JUDGMENTS IN ECONOMICS1 (1964) (13)
- Henry Carter Adams: A Case Study in the Emergence of the Social Sciences in the United States, 1850–1900 (1968) (13)
- The Culture and the Economists: Some Reflections on Anglo-American Differences (1980) (12)
- The Market for Economists in Britain, 1945-75: A Preliminary Survey (1978) (11)
- The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal. (1958) (11)
- Alfred Marshall and the Early Development of the London School of Economics: Some Unpublished Letters (1967) (11)
- John Bates Clark: The Making of a Neoclassical Economist (1999) (11)
- Economists in Government (1982) (10)
- The Origins of the "Chicago School(s)"? (1963) (9)
- The Interpretation of Mercantilist Economics: Some Historiographical Problems; with a Rearguard Response (1973) (9)
- Changing Perceptions of American Graduate Education in Economics, 1953–1991 (1992) (9)
- Economics and Psychology: A Resurrection Story (1988) (8)
- Economists in Government: A Research Field for the Historian of Economics (1978) (8)
- Adam Smith's Conception of Self-Interest in Economic and Political Affairs (1975) (8)
- The Role of Economists in Government and International Agencies: A Fresh Look at the Field (2001) (8)
- American Scholarship Comes of Age: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904 (1961) (8)
- In defence of Heckscher and the idea of Mercantilism (1957) (8)
- The Changing Social Composition of the Royal Economic Society 1890-1960 and the Professionalization of British Economics (1973) (8)
- The Long debate on poverty : eight essays on industrialisation and "the condition of England" (1974) (8)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS PROFESSION IN ENGLAND (1976) (7)
- The consequences of economic rhetoric: Economic rhetoric: The social and historical context (1989) (7)
- The First Decade of HOPE (1968–79) (1983) (7)
- Economic Methodology: Theory, Practice, and the Current State of Economics (1986) (6)
- Clarence Ayres's Place in the History of American Economics: An Interim Assessment (1976) (6)
- Methodological controversy in economics : historical essays in honor of T.W. Hutchison (1983) (6)
- The Social Composition of the Royal Economic Society and the Beginnings of the British Economics 'Profession', 1890-1915 (1970) (6)
- The Changing Role of Economists in Scottish Government Since 19601 (1978) (6)
- The Last Half-Century, Societal Change and Politics in America (1981) (5)
- National Styles in Contemporary Economics: Some Introductory Remarks (1988) (5)
- Adam Smith: The modern re‐appraisal (1962) (5)
- The Professionalization of American Social Science (1978) (4)
- Economic Thought and Discourse in the Twentieth Century (1995) (4)
- Essays in American economic history (1969) (4)
- Economics, History and HOPE (1987) (4)
- Economists In Government—An Historical And Comparative Perspective (1988) (3)
- The Revival of Subjectivism in Economics (1983) (3)
- Disciplinary self-examination, departments, and research traditions in economic history: The Anglo-American story (1990) (3)
- The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics, 2: British and American Essays. (1995) (3)
- What is American about American Economics (1998) (3)
- SITUATIONAL DETERMINISM IN ECONOMICS: THE IMPLICATIONS OF LASTIS'S ARGUMENT FOR THE HISTORIAN OF ECONOMICS (1974) (3)
- Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (review) (2003) (3)
- Where is economics going? : historical viewpoints (1994) (3)
- Economics and the world around it. Papers delivered at the Centennial Symposium of the Department of Economics, University of Michigan, April 11-12, 1980 (1986) (3)
- THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMICS: SOME RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS (1982) (3)
- John Elliotson Symes, Henry George and academic freedom in Nottingham during the 1880's (1963) (2)
- Conforontation in Toronto: reactions to the ‘old’ versus ‘new’ institutionalism sessions (1990) (2)
- What Mirowski’s History Leaves Out (1993) (2)
- Review Essay: History of Political Economy: The AEA and the History of Economics (1987) (2)
- BEYOND ADAM SMITH'S ECONOMICS (1979) (2)
- The Internationalization of Economic Policy Reform: Some Recent Literature (1996) (2)
- The rhetoric of economists: A comment on McCloskey (with Bruce J. Caldwell) (2013) (2)
- ADAM SMITH: REFLECTIONS ON THE BICENTENNIAL REAPPRAISAL (1979) (1)
- The Historiography of Economics: British and American Economic Essays, Volume III (2013) (1)
- The Economics of Francis Amasa Walker: American Economics in Transition. By Bernard Newton. With an Introduction by Joseph Dorfman. New York,: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. Pp. x, 208 (1969) (1)
- The Making of Economic Policy: Theory and Evidence from Britain and the U. S. since 1945 (1986) (1)
- Political Economists and the English Poor Laws: A Historical Study of the Influence of Classical Economics on the Formation of Social Welfare Policy. By Raymond G. Cowherd. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977. Pp. xvii, 300 (1978) (1)
- Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought 1865-1901. (1958) (1)
- Political economy;: A historical perspective (1973) (1)
- Economics - Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?Rosenberg Alexander. University of Chicago Press, 1992, xvii + 266 pages (1995) (1)
- Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Sir Alec Cairncross. Edited by Frances Cairncross. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. Pp. xii, 276. $25.00. (1983) (1)
- Alfred Marshall and Richard T. Ely: Some Unpublished Letters (1961) (1)
- The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 2: 1777-80. (1969) (1)
- Einleitung zur "Political Arithmetick" von William Petty . Sir William Petty . Einführung zu Sir William Pettys "Political Arithmetick" (1992) (1)
- Memoirs of an Economist Watcher (1996) (1)
- Explanations in history and economics (2013) (0)
- Against 'Against Convergence.' (1981) (0)
- The Pillars of Economic Understanding: A New Magisterial History of Economic Thought? (2000) (0)
- Economic Thought and Modernization in Japan (review) (2000) (0)
- J. A. Hobson's “Veblen” in the light of recent research (1959) (0)
- The Shadow of Keynes: Understanding Keynes, Cambridge, and Keynesian. Economics. Elizabeth S. Johnson and Harry G. Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 253, $15.00 (1979) (0)
- The VALUE OF BUSINESS ARCHIVES TO The ECONOMIC HISTORIAN (1961) (0)
- The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest (review) (2003) (0)
- Economic History and the History of Economics . By Mark Blaug. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Pp. xx, 284. $40.00. (1987) (0)
- Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, I: Classical and Neoclassical Economic Thought.@@@Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, II: Twentieth Century Economic Thought.@@@Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought, III: Classicals, Marxists and Neo-Classicals.@@@Perspectives (1994) (0)
- Kent and Gretchen Kreuter, An American Dissenter: The Life of Algie Marton Simons, 1870–1950 (University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 1969, $7.50). Pp. xii, 236. (1970) (0)
- The Urbana Conference: Addendum (1979) (0)
- Economists and the economy: the evolution of economic ideas, 1600 to the present day. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. x, 224 pp (1990) (0)
- The intellectual and social organisation of the sciences. * From knowledge to wisdom: a revolution in the aims and methods of science (1986) (0)
- Against ê Against convergence9 (1981) (0)
- Mark Perlman and Charles R. McCann Jr., The Pillars of Economic Understanding: Factors and Markets (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000) pp. xvii, 362, $79.50. ISBN 0 472 11110 8 (2002) (0)
- Roundtable: Concluding Reflections (2000) (0)
- History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain . By D. C. Coleman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Pp. 150. $38.00. (1988) (0)
- Academic Freedom in England: The Case of University College, Nottingham, in the 1880's (1963) (0)
- The Social Thought of Bernard Mandeville. Virtue and Commerce in Early Eighteenth-Century England . By Thomas A. Horne. London: Macmillan, 1978. Pp. xii + 123. £10. (1978) (0)
- The structure of classical economic theory by Robert V. Eagly and The classical economists by D. P. O’Brien (2013) (0)
- The Rhetoric of Economics: Further Comments (1987) (0)
- The Role of Economic Advisers in Developing Countries. By Lauchlin Currie. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 270. $27.50 (1983) (0)
- Economic History and the Modern Economist (1988) (0)
- Economic Theory and Policy in Context: The Selected Essays of R.D. Collison Black (review) (2000) (0)
- Ethics and Society in England. The Revolution in the Social Sciences 1870- 1914. (1980) (0)
- The Economist in Parliament: 1780-1868.@@@Economic Doctrine and Tory Liberalism, 1824-30. (1980) (0)
- Education and Democracy: Reflections on the American Experience (1962) (0)
- Jacob Viner. The Role of Providence in the Social Order: An Essay in Intellectual History. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, volume 90. Jayne Lectures for 1966.) Philadelphia: the Society. 1972. Pp. viii, 113. $2.00 (1973) (0)
- Report on Seventh International Economic History Association Congress, Edinburgh, 13–19 August, 1978 (1979) (0)
- Joseph Dorfman, The Economic Mind in American Civilization , Volumes IV and V, 1928–1933 (New York: Viking Press, 1959 $12.50. pp. lxxxviii, 776). (1961) (0)
- Book Review:Fact and Theory in Economics--the Testament of an Institutionalist: Collected Papers of Morris A. Copeland Chandler Morse (1960) (0)
- Michael Harrington, The Twilight of Capitalism (London: Macmillan, 1977, £8·95). Pp. 446. (1978) (0)
- Report of Discussions (1996) (0)
- Economic Thought (1990) (0)
- Book Review:The Economic Mind in American Civilization Joseph Dorfman (1960) (0)
- The Literature of Political Economy (review) (2000) (0)
- Jim Potter, The American Economy Between the World Wars (London: Macmillan, 1974, £1·75 paperback, £3·50 hardback). Pp. 184. (1975) (0)
- Book Review:Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Samuel Haber (1965) (0)
- Adam Smith's Science of Morals. (1972) (0)
- Classical Theories of Value: From Smith to Sraffa. By Jeffrey T. Young. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 129. $15.00 (1979) (0)
- Pier Francesco Asso, ed., From Economists to Economists: The International Spread of Italian Economic Thought, 1750–1850 (Firenze, Italy: Edizioni Polistampa), pp. 7–367, $19.00 ISBN 88-8304-352-9. (2004) (0)
- Political Economy and Laissez Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era. By Rajani K. Kanth. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986. Pp. 200. $34.50 (1987) (0)
- On the History of Economic Thought, I: British and American Essays. (1994) (0)
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