With contributions from leading historians of economics from six countries, this work analyses Schumpeter's contribution to the history of economics and uses it as a benchmark to assess the current state of the field.

Part I: Methods of Scholarship 1. Assessing the Reprinting of Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis Mark Perlman 2. Vision and Progress in Economic Thought: Schumpeter after Kuhn Roger E. Backhouse 3. Schumpeter's Treatment of Nonmainstream American Economics William Barber 4. Popularizers as Contributors to Economics: The Unappreciated Tribe Bette Polkinghorn 5. The Historiography of Economics: A Methodological Approach Annie L. Cot and Jerome Lallement Part II: The 'Great Gap' Thesis Revisited 6. The Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis: Economic Thought in Medieval Iran (Persia) Hamid Hosseini 7. Ibn Khaldun's Political and Economic Realism Louis Baeck 8. Maimonides on Property: Its Accumulation and Its Distribution Nelson P. Lande 9. Al-Maqrizi's Book of Aiding the Nation by Investigating the Depression of 1403-6: Translation and Commentary Mark Tomass Part III: Thoughts About Money, Credit, and Finance 10. A Test of Schumpeter's Approach to Money: The Case of the Sixteenth-Century French Monetary Debate Ghislain Deleplace 11. Banks, Credit, and the Financial System in Schumpeter: An Interpretation Richard Arena and Agnes Festre Part IV: Themes of the Classical School 12. Adam Smith's Invisible/Visible Hand/Chain/Chaos Spencer J. Pack 13. Jeremy Bentham on Private and Public Wages and Employment: The Civil Servants, the Poor, and the Indigent Nathalie Sigot 14. What Schumpeter Saw in Quesnay's Model: How the Tableau Economique Is Not a General Equilibrium or Input-Output Model Steven Pressman Part V: Expanding the Frontiers 15. Commons and Veblen: Contrasting Ideas About Evolution, Philippe Broda 16. Mr. Boulding and the Austrians: Boulding's Contribution to Subjectivist Economics Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko 17. Economics as a Patriarchal Discourse Antonio Callari Part VI: The Synthesis 18. The Sociology of Science and Schumpeter's Ideology Yuichi Shionoya