Research Interests for E. Roy Weintraub

Research Interests:

Histories of the postwar transformation of economics from a rhetorically discursive discipline to a technically scientific one.

Keywords:
Credit, Economics, Equilibrium, History, History of Modern Economics, Mathematics
Current projects:
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

Representative Publications
  1. Weintraub, ER; Forget, EL, Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics, edited by Weintraub, ER; Forget, E (2007), pp. 402 pages, Duke University Press [abs]
  2. Weintraub, ER, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science, Science and Cultural Theory (May, 2002), pp. 313 pages, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822328711 [abs]
  3. Weintraub, ER, The Future of the History of Economics, edited by Weintraub, ER (2002), pp. 422 pages, Duke University Press [abs]
  4. Weintraub, ER, Toward a History of Game Theory, edited by Weintraub, ER (1992), pp. 306 pages, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822312536 [abs]
  5. Weintraub, ER, Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge, Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics (1991), Cambridge University Press (Translation: Japanese. Teruo Kojima (trans.) Bunka Shobo Hakubun sha Publishing, Ltd., Tokyo, 1994. Translation (Chapter 6): Hungarian. Aladár Madarász (trans.) in Aladár Madarász (ed.), Közgazaságtani Eszmetötrénet. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2000.)
  6. Weintraub, ER, General Equilibrium Analysis: Studies in Appraisal, Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics (1985), Cambridge University Press (Paperback edition: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.)
  7. Weintraub, ER, Mathematics for Economists An Integrated Approach (1982), pp. 180 pages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521287692 (Chinese translation: Publishing House of Economic Science. Series: The Treasure House of Foreign Economics Textbook, 1998.)
  8. Weintraub, ER, Microfoundations The Compatibility of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature (February, 1979), pp. 175 pages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521294454 (Translations: French, Fondements Microeconomiques, Paris: Economica, 1980; Spanish, Microfundamentos, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1985.) [abs]
  9. Weintraub, ER, Conflict and Cooperation in Economics,, Macmillan Studies in Economics (1975), pp. iii + 93, Macmillian Studies in Economics
  10. Weintraub, ER, General Equilibrium Theory, Macmillan Studies in Economics (1974), Macmillan Studies in Economics (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.)