Dynamics, trade and money in the correspondence between Roy Harrod and Dennis Robertson / Daniele Besomi -- Catalysing growth? : Mendeleev and the 1891 tariff / Vincent Barnett -- Veblen in Chicago : the winds of creativity / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- John Maurice Clark and the multiplier : a note / Luca Fiorito -- Introduction and summary / J. Daniel Hammond, Warren J. Samuels -- Institutional economics : the term and its meanings / Malcolm Rutherford -- Is institutionalism still a useful category? / Ross B. Emmett -- Institutional economics as a category for historical analysis / Warren J. Samuels -- Why institutional economics matters as a category of historical analysis / Bradley W. Bateman -- J. Daniel Hammond, Norma Jeane Mortenson, and American institutionalism : a view from the top row / Steven G. Medema -- Reflections on institutional and Chicago economics / J. Daniel Hammond -- The status of the status quo : the Buchanan colloquium / Warren J. Samuels -- The problem of the status of the status quo : some comments / Warren J. Samuels -- Equilibriumwalkers / Glenn Hueckel -- Burk's Troublemaker : the life and history of A.J.P. Taylor and Haslam's The vices of integrity : E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 / Warren J. Samuels -- Socialism lost? / Rod Cross -- Cullenberg, Amariglio and Ruccio's Postmodernism, economics and knowledge / W.D. Sockwell -- Reflection without ruleshands / Ana Maria Bianchi -- Fligstein's The architecture of markets / A. Allan Schmid -- Resnick's and Wolff's Class theory and history / Simon Clarke -- Churchman's David Ricardo on public debt / Denis P. O'Brien -- Economics, biology, and culture : Hodgson on history / Alexander J. Field -- The German historical approach to economics / Harald Hagemann -- Carpenter's The dissemination of the wealth of nations in French and in France, 1776-1843 / Robert F. Hebert -- Strathern's A brief history of economic genius / Edith Kuiper -- Findlay, Jonung and Lundahl's Bertil Ohlin : a centennial celebration / Lars Magnusson -- Keynes, uncertainty and the competitive process / Stephen P. Dunn -- The prudence of projectors : Adam Smith's premonition of financial fragility and the origins of monetary policy / Jan Toporowski.

Contains four sets of refereed essays. One group includes papers on Harrod and Robertson; Adam Smith; Keynes; Mendeleev; Veblen; and J. M. Clark. The second group has six papers on the historiography of institutional economics during the inter-war period. The third group has two papers on a conference on the status of the status quo. The fourth group has thirteen essays each reviewing one or more recent works.