Research Interests for E. Roy Weintraub

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.

Keywords:

History of Modern Economics

Areas of Interest:

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

Representative 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.)