consensus, quasi-resolved their conflicts, or just stared at each other in mutual incomprehension. Economics is a social science discipline, carved out of an intellectual space that used to include sociology, political science, anthropology, and their forebears. Given its concerns with public policy, economics necessarily also engages law and jurisprudence. Fourcade clearly recognizes these disci- plinary interactions, and appreciates the contested nature of jurisdictional set- tlements, but I would have liked a more systematic analysis of how economics managed its boundaries with adjacent social sciences, and vice versa. How did disciplinary ecologies vary across the three cases, and over time? Professions, as Andrew Abbott famously put it, form a system, and so however valuable it is to focus on a single discipline, one risks overlooking larger patterns of inter- dependence. I hope she (or a student) will scale up her analysis and provide an even more panoptic view. Fourcade musters an impressive amount of evidence gathered in a variety of ways, and her arguments are well organized and presented. In addition to her historical analysis, she interviewed a large number of economists, and is even married to one (an innovative research method that is useful but not easy to replicate). Among many other insights, Fourcade’s study reveals a deli- ciously large irony: while economics has focused on the market as its chief object of study, the discipline of economics has been deeply affected by its relations to the state. Even in the United States, with its powerful market sec- tor and equally robust economics profession, government actions and public imperatives have strongly shaped the development of economics. Market forces alone cannot explain the rise of economics. Evaluation, Culture, and the World of the American Professor Neil McLaughlin 1 How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Miche`le, Lamont. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. There has recently been an explosion of high-quality work in the sociol- ogy of ideas, from Randall Collins’s (1998) magisterial The Sociology of Philosophies to Neil Gross’s (2008) Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. Miche`le Lamont has been a pioneer in this renaissance; beginning with her provocative 1987 American Journal of Sociology article ‘‘How to 1 McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S4L8; e-mail: nmclaugh@mcmaster.ca. 538 McLaughlin