Ideas in History Vol. 6.2

Ideas in History is the result of collaborative efforts among nearly a dozen universities and colleges throughout the Nordic countries. The purpose of these initiatives is to further awareness of research, resources and activities in the field of intellectual history in the Nordic countries as well as internationally. The journal aims to create a meeting ground for the study of ideas in historical context across disciplinary, geographical and institutional boundaries. Ideas in History welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual history at the same time it acknowledges specific traditions in the field. Ideas in History seeks a pluralism of methodological approaches to intellectual history: reflections on the field, historical contexts studied, subject matter for intellectual-historical investigation, critical understandings of relations between the intellectual past and present as well as the comprehension of culturally, politically and geographically diverse intellectual traditions. Contents in Vol. 6:2: Special Issue on the History of Economic Thought Jakob Bek-Thomsen, Mikkel Thorup, Christian Olaf Christiansen and Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Introduction: The Intellectual History of Economic Thought; Christian Olaf Christiansen, From the "The History of Economic Thought" to "Economic Intellectual History"; Stefan Gaardsman Jacobsen, Perfect Liberty or Natural Liberty? Adam Smith, François Quesnay and the Problem of Ordering Eighteenth-Century Economies; Joseph Malherek, Qualitative Capitalism and Continental Critique: Émigré Social Scientists Encounter the American Consumer, 1933-45; Open Article: Eivind Engbretsen, Darnton's Cats: Text or Reality?