Terence Wilmot Hutchison

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Hutchison, Terence W. (1938). The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory. Macmillan via Internet Archive. This work established his credentials as an economic methodologist. [5]
  • _____, "The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory: A Reply to Professor Knight". Journal of Political Economy. 49 (5): 732–750. 1941. JSTOR   1824616.
  • Eucken, Walter (1950). The Foundations of Economics. Translated by Hutchinson, Terence Wilmot. London: William Hodge and Company via Internet Archive.
  • _____, 1953. A Review of Economic Doctrines 1870-1929, Oxford
  • _____, 2000. On the Methodology of Economics and the Formalist Revolution, Edward Elgar. Description and preview.
  • Knight, F.H. (1940). "'What is Truth' in Economics," [article review of Hutchison, 1938]". Journal of Political Economy. 48 (1): 1–32. JSTOR   1825908. Reprinted in Knight, F.H. (1956). On the History and Method of Economics: Selected essays . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.  151-178. ISBN   978-0226446899.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help). See also Knight, F.H. (October 1941). "The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory: A Rejoinder". Journal of Political Economy. 49 (5): 750–753. JSTOR   1824617.
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    Papers related to Hutchison's career are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. [6]

    References

    1. "Professor Terence Hutchison: Economist who criticised his discipline's focus on abstract models and wrote provocatively on the history of economics" . The Times: 71. 5 December 2007.
    2. Blaug, Mark (22 October 2007). "Professor T. W. Hutchison: Historian of economic thought". The Independent. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
    3. 1 2 3 Backhouse, Roger E., "Hutchison, Terence Wilmot (1912–2007)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2013; online edition, January 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2022 (subscription required)
    4. Hutchison, Terence W. (1988). Before Adam Smith: The Emergence of Political Economy 1662-1776 . Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell via Internet Archive.
    5. See for instance: Mark Blaug, 1987. "Hutchison, Terence Wilmot," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics , v. 2, p. 703. Link, Roger E. Backhouse, 2008. "Hutchison, Terence Wilmot (1912–2007)," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , 2nd Edition. Link, R. N. Ghosh, 2007. "Terence Wilmot Hutchison: My Reminiscences," Communications and Notes, 46(Summer), History of Economics Review, pp. 162-69 and Google Scholar searches of "The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory" and "Terence W. Hutchison" OR "T. W. Hutchison".
    6. "UoB Calmview5: Search results". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
    Terence Wilmot Huchinson
    Terence Wilmot Hutchinson in 1951.jpg
    Hutchinson in 1951
    Born13 August 1912
    Bournemouth, England
    Died6 October 2007(2007-10-06) (aged 95)
    Winchester, England
    Spouse(s)
    Loretta Hack
    (m. 19351981)

    Christine Donaldson
    (m. 19832003)
    Children3
    Parent(s)Grace Hutchison (mother)
    Robert Langton Douglas (father)
    Academic background
    Alma mater Peterhouse, Cambridge
    London School of Economics