Economics for the twenty-first century: A celebration of John B. Davis's conribution to economics

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is concerned with topics in the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. It discusses John Davis’s work in history of economic thought and economic philosophy and describes his work in social economics and related topics. The book examines aspects of Davis’s approach to “seeking justice: the promotion of care and capabilities”. It explores the impact that computer simulation has had on economic methodology. Davis’s roots in political economy and social economics suggest that as with other social sciences and science generally, economics is unavoidably value-laden. All in all, Davis has generated an extraordinarily prodigious scholarly output on an extremely wide range of important topics, and this only takes into account his work directly related to the history of economic thought and economic philosophy.