Pat Gunning wrote: > Out go the invisible hand comparative advantage, demand and supply, and the quantity theory of money. > How can these perspectives on the history of economics be adopted without destroying the subject > matter? ---------------------- To answer this question, I would suggest beginning with the works of Jason Potts and Kurt Dopfer and the works of Brian Loasby. Kurt Dopfer & Jason Potts, The General Theory of Economic Evolution, Routledge, 2007 Kurt Dopfer & John Foster & Jason Potts, 2004. "Micro-meso-macro," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 14(3), pages 263-279. Brian Loasby, Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics, Routledge, 1999 Kurt Dopfer, ed., The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2006 Brian J. Loasby, The Evolution of Knowledge, October 2003 http://www.compilerpress.atfreeweb.com/Anno%20Loasby%20Evolution%20of%20Knowledge%20DRUID%202001.htm Michael Nuwer