HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THEORY AND METHOD (6TH EDITION) FORTHCOMING, Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Robert F. Hebert, 2013, Chicago, Waveland Press. The new edition of the History of Economic Theory and Method constitutes a re-working and judicious expansion upon a text that has been in print and use since 1976. That core established almost 4 decades ago remains with the object of presenting a readable and instructive survey of the development of economics from the earliest of times to the present. As in the past we have tried to present a survey without being an encyclopedic in scope. The new edition, as all past, presents the substance of those ideas that have contributed to what we now call mainstream economics and those ideas that were tried and rejected or remain out of modern traditional economics. We hope that mastery of this book will provide a reasonably good idea of how, historically, we "got where we are" in economics. We again try to impart the international character and scope of major contributions to economic analysis. Earlier books in this field all too often focused exclusively on the Anglo-Saxon tradition in economic thought to the exclusion