E. Roy Weintraub, Professor

Roy Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been as an economist. In recent years his research and teaching activities have focused upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the twentieth century. This work, in the history of economics, has helped shape the understanding of economists and historians: his General Equilibrium Theory (1985), Stabilizing Dynamics (1991), Toward a History of Game Theory (ed.) (1992) and How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002) have charted the transformation of economics from a historical to a mathematical discipline. A former President of the History of Economics Society, he is the author of seven books, editor of three others, and has published numerous articles in professional journals and edited volumes. His books have been variously translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Greek, Spanish, Hungarian, and Italian. Currently he is Associate Editor of the journals History of Political Economy and the Economics Bulletin, and Co-Editor of the book series Science and Cultural Theory. He has held visiting positions at the University of Hawaii, UCLA, the University of Rome, the University of Bristol, and the University of Venice. He has been one of the few economists honored by a fellowship year at the National Humanities Center. At Duke he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics from 1972 to 1983, Chair of that department from 1983 to 1987, Acting Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences in 1987, Director of the Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science from 1995-1999, and has twice chaired the Academic Council. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has served terms on the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure, the Academics Priorities Committee, the Faculty Compensation Committee, and has chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Resources. He served for many years as a pre-major advisor and a teacher of first-year seminars, and has been Director of the Honors Program for the Department of Economics, and Faculty Fellow in the former Edens Federation for Residential Life. In 1992 he won the Howard Johnson Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. A native of the Philadelphia area, Professor Weintraub received his A.B. degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Duke University faculty in 1970 following a first academic position at Rutgers University. He lives with his family in Durham.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	007D Social Sciences
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1838
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.econ.duke.edu/~erw/erw.homepage.html

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ECON 99FCS.36, FOCUS PROGRAM TOPICS IN ECON

  Social Sciences 327, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• ECON 190S.01, HISTORY OF MODERN ECONOMICS Synopsis

  Social Sciences 327, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• ECON 290S.01, DEV OF MODERN ECON THOUGHT

  Social Sciences 327, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• ECON 380.06, ECONOMICS WORKSHOPS

  Social Sciences 327, F 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

• ECON 197S.01, ECONOMIC SCIENCE STUDIES Synopsis

  Social Sciences 327, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

• ECON 297S.01, ECONOMIC SCIENCE STUDIES

  Social Sciences 327, Tu 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

Education:

Ph. D. (Applied Mathematics)	University of Pennsylvania	1969
M.S. (Applied Mathematics)	University of Pennsylvania	1968
A.B. (Mathematics)	Swarthmore College	1964

Specialties:

History of Economic Thought
Economic Theory

Research Interests:

Professor Weintraub's current research interests include, and his current projects involve, issues in the historiography of economics particularly the role of biography, autobiography, and letters, and the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics in the 20th century.

Areas of Interest:

Life writing and the history of economics
Historiography of economics
History of the mathematization of economics

Keywords:

History of Modern Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Pedro Duarte  

Postdocs Mentored

• Yann Giraud (2008-2009)  
• Tiago Mata (2007-2008)  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. E. R. Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget (eds.), Autobiographical Memory and the Historiography of Economics (2007), pp. vii + 402, Duke University Press, Durham and London
2. E. R. Weintraub, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science, Science and Cultural Theory (2002), Duke University Press, xiii + 313 pages
3. E. R. Weintraub (ed.), The Future of the History of Economics (2002), Duke University Press, vii + 422 pages
4. E. R. Weintraub (ed.), Toward a History of Game Theory (1992), Duke University Press, vi + 306 pages
5. E. R. Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge, Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics (1991), Cambridge University Press, x + 178 pages (Translation: Japanese. Teruo Kojima (trans.) Bunka Shobo Hakubun sha Publishing, Ltd., Tokyo, 1994. Translation (Chapter 6): Hungarian. Madarász Aladár (trans.) in Madarász Aladár (ed.), Közgazaságtani Eszmetötrénet. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2000.)
6. E. R. Weintraub, General Equilibrium Analysis: Studies in Appraisal, Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics (1985), Cambridge University Press, ix + 191 pages (Paperback edition: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.)
7. E. R. Weintraub, Mathematics for Economists: An Integrated Approach (1982), Cambridge University Press, , xiii + 181 pages (Chinese translation: Publishing House of Economic Science. Series: The Treasure House of Foreign Economics Textbook, 1998.)
8. E. R. Weintraub, Microfoundations: The Compatibility of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature (1979), Cambridge University Press, viii + 175 pages (Translations: French, Fondements Microeconomiques, Paris: Economica, 1980; Spanish, Microfundamentos, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1985.)
9. E. R. Weintraub, Conflict and Cooperation in Economics, Macmillan Studies in Economics (1975), Macmillan
10. E. R. Weintraub, General Equilibrium Theory, Macmillan Studies in Economics (1974), Macmillan, i + 64 (Translations: Spanish, Teoria del equilibrio general, Barcelona: Vicens-Vives, 1978; Italian, La Teoria dell'equilibrio generale, Napoli: Liguori Editore, 1978; Greek, Θεωρία Γενικηζ Ίσορροπίαζ, 1978.)

Conferences Organized

• History of Economics Society Meetings 2003, President and Director, July 4-7, 2003  
• HOPE 2006, Life Writing in Economics, Co-director, April 14 - 16, 2006  
• HOPE 2001, The Future of the History of Economics, Director, April, 2001  
• HOPE 1991,Toward a History of Game Theory, Director, April, 1991