This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration into the influential work of Wade Hands, examining the changing relationship between methodology and the history of economics in connection with contemporary developments in economics.

Introduction: Wade Hands as an Historian and Philosopher of Economics Part 1: Reflection with and without Rules 1. Insider, Outsider, Stranger, Resident Field-Worker? Reflections on Wade Hands' Authorial Stance in Reflection without Rules 2. Reflections without Rules: Reflections about Rules after Twenty Years 3. Social Aspects of Economics Modelling: Disciplinary Norms and Performativity Part 2: The methodological dimensions and implications of Paul Samuelson's economics 4. Unification and Pluralism in Economics 5. In Search of Santa Claus: Samuelson, Stigler, and Coase Theorem Worlds 6. Neo-Samuelsonian Methodology, Normative Economics, and the Quantitative Intentional Stance Part 3: Pragmatism 7. Models, Truth, and Analytic Inference in Economics 8. Institutional Economics and John Dewey's Instrumentalism 9. E. F. Schumacher's Metanoia: Rejecting Homo Oeconomicus, 1950-1977 Part 4: Behavioral Economics 10. Hands on Nudging 11. Does the Inclusion of Social Preferences in Economic Models Challenge the Positive-Normative Distinction?