This volume focuses on the contributions of Sheila Dow to economic methodology, pluralism and the history of economic thought. These explorations serve to underpin her ideas and theories on macroeconomics, banking, and money.

Ioana Negru is a Reader in Economics at 'Lucian Blaga' University of Sibiu. She is the co-editor of The Ethical Formation of Economists (2019, with Wilfred Dolfsma) and of The Gift in the Economy and Society: Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences (2020, with Stefan Kesting and Paolo Silvestri). She has been a member of the Skidelsky Committee for improving the economics curriculum worldwide.

Penelope Hawkins is Senior Economist in the Debt and Development Finance Branch, within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Her research focusses on public and private country debt, development finance, illicit financial flows and financial inclusion. Previously, as the founder and Managing Director of Feasibility (Pty) Ltd, she undertook leading research projects in the financial sector in South Africa and advised policy makers and regulators in southern and eastern Africa.

Foreword Introduction: Sheila Dow as a Visionary Economics Scholar Chapter 1: The Relation of Neoclassical Economics to other Disciplines: the case of Physics and Psychology Chapter 2: Sheila Dow's Open Systems Methodology Chapter 3: Categorisation, Criticism and Pluralism in Context: Open and Closed Systems And the Project of Mathematical Modelling in Modern Economics Chapter 4: Dualism Revisited Chapter 5: Naturalism and the new challenge to Sheila Dow's schools-of-thought approach to economics Chapter 6: Infinite Regress Problems and the Methodologies of Behavioural Economics Chapter 7: Should equilibrium be abandoned by heterodox economists? Chapter 8: Dow, Keynes and the Pragmatic Tradition: More in Common? Chapter 9: Keynes in transition: 'The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren' Chapter 10: Ethical Practice in Economics: Research, Policy Advice and Education Chapter 11: Sheila Dow as historian of economic thought: The Scottish political economy tradition Chapter 12: The conditions under which Adam Smith's invisible hand operate Chapter 13: Mary Theresa Rankin: A Monetary Economist in the Scottish Tradition of Political Economy Chapter 14: David Hume as a Scottish Political Economist Chapter 15: Sheila Dow's body of work - Publications from 1980 to 2022