What is American about American economics? -- Remarks on "American-ness" in American economic thought -- What is "American" about U.S. economics -- Comment on "what is American about American economics?" -- Irving Fisher as a policy advocate -- Social science and the making of social policy : Wesley Mitchell's vision -- Vision accomplished : Harold Moulton and Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings Institution as champions of a new world order -- Herbert J. Davenport's transformation of the Austrian theory of value and cost -- The quest for an ideal index : Irving Fisher and The Making of Index Numbers -- Frank Knight's position on capital and interest : Foundations of the Knight/Hayek/Kaldor debate -- Europe in America : Veblen and his Canadian connections.