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Includes bibliographical references.

Western economic advisers in China, 1900-1949 / Paul B. Trescott -- Monsignor John Ryan on the ethics and economics of minimum wage legislation / Robert E. Prasch -- History of economics and history of science: a comparative look at recent work in both fields / Ross B. Emmett -- Clément Juglar on commercial crises: the dictionary articles / Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer -- Commercial crises (1863/1873) / Clément Juglar, translated by Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer -- Commercial crises (1891) / Clément Juglar, translated by Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer -- "Periodic crises": Clément Juglar between theories of crises and theories of business cycles / Daniele Besomi -- David Hume's Political economy / Willie Henderson -- Econometrics and the philosophy of economics: worlds apart? / Kevin D. Hoover -- Marx's general: Friedrich Engels resuscitated / John F. Henry -- America's economic moralists: two schools, one thesis, still no clear answer / Stewart Davenport -- The living wage: the living wage and the history of economics / Thomas A. Stapleford -- Liberalism, conservatism, and Hayek's idea of spontaneous order: spontaneous order and the limits of reason and tradition / Steven Horwitz -- Firms, strategies and economic change: Austrian economics meets comparative institutional analysis by way of Frank Knight / Giampaolo Garzarelli -- The Austrian School: historical perspective and role of entrepreneurship in Austrian economics / Subbu Kumarappan -- Are economists basically immoral? A defense of ethical economics / Joe Blosser -- Hunting causes and using them: causal pluralism and the limits of causal analysis / Kevin D. Hoover -- The hesitant hand swinging to and fro: government and market, Pigou and Coase / Humberto Barreto -- How the Chicago School overshot the mark: antitrust law and policy in terms of the legal-economic nexus / Nicholas Mercuro.

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent work in the history of economics and the history of science. Review essays on new publications examine a range of subjects, including: David Hume's political economy; conceptions of economic morality in American thought; Frank Knight and the Austrians on institutions; Friedrich Engels; Austrian views on entrepreneurship; Coase and Pigou on government intervention; Hayek and conservatism; the history of the "living wage" notion; methodological consideration of economics and econometrics; and Paul Heyne's essays on economic and ethics.