The scope of economics historically considered; the history of economic thought as intellectual history; the state, law and economic organization; a centenary reconsideration of Bellamy's "Looking Backward"; thorstein veblen, heterodox economist, in retrospect; the firing of E.A. Ross from Stanford University - injustice compounded by deception?; Edwin E. Witte's concept of the role of government in the economy; the economy as a system of power and its legal bases - the legal economics of Robert Lee Hale; legal realism and the burden of symbolism - the correspondence of Thurman Arnold Galbraith on economics as a system of professional belief; Gardiner C means's institutional and post Keynesian economics; in praise of Joan Robinson - economics as social control.