This article surveys histories of recent economics told mainly from the perspective of
outsiders to the discipline. As we see, the work of historians of science, intellectual historians …

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact
than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as …

By the late 1950s, Harry Frank Guggenheim was concerned with understanding why some
charismatic leaders fought for freedom, while others sought power and domination. He …

Research in the social sciences received generous patronage in the late 1960s and early
1970s. Research was widely perceived as providing solutions to emerging social problems …

This essay investigates a hitherto-unexamined collaboration between two of the founders of
modern history of science, Henry Guerlac and I. Bernard Cohen, and two economists, Paul …

Between the seventeenth and early nineteenth century, various European scholars
introduced a distinction between a pure and a practical or applied part of their respective …

Wie viele Bomben braucht es, bis eine Gesellschaft zusammenbricht? Sophia Dafinger
untersucht eine Gruppe sozialwissenschaftlicher Experten in den USA, für die der Zweite …

This dissertation investigates the history of Science Studies (or Science and Technology
Studies, STS) as it became a distinct area of expertise and academic inquiry during the Cold …

This article explores how linguistic categories affect boundary work in scholarly knowledge
production. Whereas the German language knows the unified concept of Wissenschaft for all …

You are looking at a challenge to the power that, after World War II, unseated American
archaeology's basic science. Through National Science Foundation funding, mainstream …