The following survey has one central theme, which is that HOPE has always been more pluralistic than current members of the profession, who often see the journal as a stronghold for the historical reconstruction method, seem to acknowledge: while some individuals or groups of individuals have suggested bolder inflections for the field over the years, their attempts, while sparking debates and, at times, controversies, have had limited effect on a vast portion of the journal’s content, hinting at the inability to engage the larger community of historians of economics in...

This paper aims to better understand the interdisciplinary collaboration between economics and the behavioral sciences during the early Cold War era in the United States. I focus on the relationship between mathematical economists and the behavioral sciences movement during the early Cold War era in the United States. I offer a portrait of circumstances under which mathematical economists were willing to engage in collaboration with behavioral scientists, how this collaboration was tentatively hinted at, and how it ultimately materialized. I argue that the process in which...