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... Ownership and Business Enterprise . New York: Huebsch. Veblen , T. 1932 . The Place of Science in Modern Civilization . New York: Viking Press. Veblen , T. 1945 Essays in Our Changing Order . New York: Viking Press. American Institutionalism and Durkheimian Positive Economics...

... Knight's “recantation” and his attack on behavioristic social science; the third section analyzes Knight's discussion of the nature and limitations of scientific economics; the fourth section offers a brief digression on Knight's relationship with American institutionalism; the fifth section deals...

... references to Percy Bridgman's operationalism. Applying this new viewpoint, this essay also joins the general topic of this volume by exploring early American institutionalism and recent behavioral economics as specific instances in which psychology and economics meet (or do not). Correspondence may...

..., according to which “only explicit price fixing and very large hori- zontal mergers (mergers to monopoly) were worthy of serious concern” (Posner 1979, 933; also see Nik-Khah 2011). Perhaps the most visible consequence of the institutionalization of a powerful economics core within American business...

... analysis in a way consistent with Manne's vision. Though the committee's effective life was very short and its direct influence negligible, the lessons learned informed Manne's subsequent efforts to institutionalize law and economics within the legal academy. law and economics Henry Manne American...

... economics. It is made clear by a study of this series that American institutionalism did not begin with Thorstein Veblen. On the contrary, Veblen was the beneficiary of much of the unorthodox economic theorizing that was carried on in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century...

...Marianne Johnson This article examines the institutionalization of public finance as a subfield of economics in American universities from the founding of professional academic economics departments in the 1880s through the eve of the Great Depression. It is argued that what became identified...

...Lachezar Grudev Abstract This article reconstructs the path of the German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901–75) to American economics. The correspondence with his former teacher Walter Eucken, the founder of the Freiburg school, constitutes a crucial yet unexplored source for the article. Through...

... to the point if he had explained how this school was in many ways a forerunner of American institutionalism. A more detailed analysis of the reasons for this neglect could very well stimulate a reevaluation of the work of the early American school, and a rewriting of the history of nineteenth...

... Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Evolution of American Institutionalism. Journal of the History of Economic Thought . Ayres, Clarence E. 1942 . Economic Value and Scientific Synthesis. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 1.4 : 343 -60. Ayres, Clarence. E. 1944...

... concerning the economic feasibility of market socialism carried on by Taylor, Barone, Lange, Mises, and Hayek. The only real heroes in Mulberg’s generally depressing story are in Chapter 4, “American Institutionalism,” in which he gives brief, sympathetic...

... Nicholas Mercuro (chapter 12) reminds us that interwar institutionalism emerged from the confluence of three intellectual influences: the German historical school, American pragmatic philosophy (John Dewey), and Veblen’s social interpretation of the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin (218). Readers...

.... The first period also includes Myrdal’s first, disappointing contact with American institutionalism. “Gunnar Myrdal II” appears in 1929–38 as a “political and social economist.” (The first two periods overlap.) During this period he published a number...

... University Press. Ross , D 1991 . The Origins of American Social Science . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rutherford , M 1997 . American Institutionalism and the History of Economics. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 19 . 2 : 178 -95. Samuels , W. Forthcoming...

... of several schools, but its roots are in American institutionalism and in Keynes himself-as opposed to Samuelson’s neoclassical synthesis or Hicks’s IS-LM analysis. PKI methodology, as expounded by Wilber and Jameson, is strongly reminiscent of the German Historical School. They characterize...

... concerning the economic feasibility of market socialism carried on by Taylor, Barone, Lange, Mises, and Hayek. The only real heroes in Mulberg’s generally depressing story are in Chapter 4, “American Institutionalism,” in which he gives brief, sympathetic...

... formulation of economic policy in the United States in the 1940s, and the importance of American institutionalism, especially the National Bureau of Economic Research). The development of macroeconometric models from Klein I to Brookings is the main topic in chapter 4, but Friedman’s empirical...

... The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv; 283 pp. $45.00. The title of this penetrating study reflects one of the major concerns of American institutionalism and the Progressive...

...., and John R. Commons. 1916 . Principles of Labor Legislation . New York: Harper. Asso, Pier Francesco, and Luca Fiorito. 2004 . Human Nature and Economic Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Development of American Institutionalism. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 26.4...

... of the City University of New York The Money Interest and the Public Interest: American Monetary Thought, 1920-1970. By Perry G. Mehrling. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv; 283 pp. $45.00. The title of this penetrating study reflects one of the major concerns of American...