The wealth of nations and the smithian revolution; James Mill and richardian economics - a methodological revolution?; the decline and fall of English classical political economy and the Jevonian revolution; the Jevonian revolution and economic policy in Britain; the Keynesian revolution and the history of economic thought; demythologizing the Keynesian revolution - Pigou, wage-cuts, and the general theory; the Keynesian revolution, uncertainty, and deductive general theory; economists and the history of economics - revolutionary and traditional versions; on recent revolutionary versions of hte history of economics; on the influence and effects on poloicies of economic ideas and theories; on revolutions and progress in economic knowledge - definitions and conclusions.