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A Companion to the History of Economic Thought - Chapter 35

C H A P T E R T H I R T Y - F I V E Biography and the History of Economics Biographies of economists are as old as the genre, which dates from Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, the first four volumes of which appeared in 1779, and James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, which appeared in 1791. | CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Biography and the History of Economics D. E. Moggridge 35.1 Introduction Biographies of economists are as old as the genre which dates from Samuel Johnson s Lives of the Poets the first four volumes of which appeared in 1779 and James Boswell s Life of Johnson which appeared in 1791. One need only think of Dugald Stewart s Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith 1980 1793 . Economists autobiographies date from about the same time - from Hume 1980 1777 which is important historically as one of the first extended accounts by a writer of his literary progress Pascal 1960 p. 15 . The flow has continued in the case of Smith four members of the editorial team of the Glasgow edition of the Works and Correspondence have contributed to new lives Campbell and Skinner 1982 Raphael 1985 Ross 1995 . Autobiography also continues apace the Journal of the History of Economic Thought the organ of the History of Economics Society recently commissioned a number of autobiographical essays as have the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review some of which were collected in book form by Jan Kregel 1988 1989 and the American Economist some of which appear in Szenberg 1992 1998 and individual editors have compiled collections Breit and Spencer 1986 Heertje 1993 1995 1997 1999 . Still more recently Roger Backhouse and Roger Middleton have collected together with additions the autobiographical introductions to the publisher Edward Elgar s series Economists of the Twentieth Century as Exemplary Economists 2000 . There are also collections of autobiographical interviews such as Hayek on Hayek Kresge and Wenar 1994 and Keith Tribe s Economic Careers Economics and Economists in Britain 1930-1970 1997 . There is also a literature of interviews with practicing economists on the state of particular sub-disciplines Ibanez 1999 Snowden and Vane 1999 or on their development see the interviews with the founders of cliometrics in the Newsletter of the Cliometric Society .