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A home economics class at Howard University in Washington, circa 1920. Early African American educators developed domestic science as a means of “educating moral leaders who would lift up their ...

This course is available on the MA in Modern History, MRes/PhD in Accounting (AOI) (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track), MSc in Economic History, MSc in Economic History (Research), MSc ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Winter 2025/26 issue of The Independent Review. What if economics were a material science? In Economics as Science: A Critical History of Economic Thought, ...

The best book to read if you are interested in the history of economic ideas. First published in 1953, it covers some of the most consequential early economists, from Adam Smith to Thomas Malthus to ...

Those readers whose memories of home economics class are dominated by muffin tins and sewing machines might be surprised to learn about Caroline Hunt, an early innovator in the field. Hunt had no ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Fall 2026 issue of The Independent Review. In lauding economist Joseph Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, 1954), Richard ...

Economics shapes many aspects of our daily lives, from the prices we pay to the policies governments adopt. Yet many of the ideas taught as universal principles of economics emerged from a narrow ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on May 3, 2021. Find that audio here. Host Robin Young speaks with Danielle Dreilinger, author of the new book "The Secret History of Home Economics: How ...

The history of economic thought traces the evolution of ideas about production, distribution and exchange from antiquity to the present. Its narrative begins with early reflections on wealth in ...