This year’s volume includes an obituary for and a symposium on Warren J. Samuels, reviews of M. Rutherford’s 2011 The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947, six other
review articles, and two research articles with responses. Among the topics are the methodology of Islamic economic and socio-scientific inquiry, Samuels on methodological pluralism in
economics, a detailed and accurate picture of American institutionalism, what the First World War did and did not do to American economics, Keppler’s Adam Smith and the Economy of the Passions,
and Finn’s The True Wealth of Nations. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
