... in the Organization of Industrial Control . New York : Harper . White H. G. Jr. 1936 . A Review of Monopolistic and Imperfect Competition Theories . American Economic Review 26.4 : 637 – 49 . Hostage to Fortune: Edward Chamberlin and the Reception of The Theory of Monopolistic...

... .” Journal of Business Inquiry 9 ( 1 ): 56 – 64 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters . By Friedman Walter A. . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2014 . xi ; 273 pp. Hardcover $29.95 . Book...

... CCC 00 18-2702/88/$1.50 The market for fame and fortune David M.Levy The Problem The modem discussion of the economics of fame treats fame as an instru- ment to material income. This view I should like to contrast with the classical Greek...

...” and the Fortunes of Physiocracy Jessica Riskin 1. Physiocracy and Teleology While debating the epistemological limits of mechanics,A. R. J.Turgot— philosophe, political economist, and finance minister to Louis XVI— wrote to the marquis de Condorcet, in a letter dated 18 May 1774, that impulsion could...

... as well as a private fortune in the booms of the 1920s and subsequent crash. Fisher’s high-profile use of his authority as a recognized academic expert to intervene in public discourse, both on subjects within his professional competence (e.g., price-level stabilization) and on unrelated subjects (e.g...

...Tiago Mata Abstract John D. McDonald was a writer and editor best known for his work at Fortune magazine in the 1950s and 1960s and as the ghostwriter of the memoirs of Alfred P. Sloan. McDonald was also the first person to popularize game theory. In this article I argue that game theory played...

... to hurt them. Somewhere in the middle is a viable, yet not so happy, state, where interest in others is confined to how they serve one’s own interests. On the opposite end of the spectrum is the most happy of states, where an individual has a genuine positive interest in the fortune of others.3...

...Byrd L. Jones Robert M. Collins New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. 209. $24.00. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 References Despres , Emile 1959 . Class notes by author (Jan. 30). Editorial 1942 . ‘Freedom from want.’ Fortune 26 ( Oct. ): 126...

... that the required changes would flow from an improvement in the education of the people of rank and fortune and from an extension of educational facilities to the common man. This requires spelling out. The details of Smith’s discussion of education need not concern us at this juncture : it is his...

...’ corporate liberals and their chosen experts wanted to apply. Today neither economists nor politicians seem much concerned with the rele- vance of Keynes’ insights into earlier debates over economic security and income distribution. In its October 1942 editorial on ‘Freedom from want,’ Fortune urged...

... as to compensate it completely The adventurer, Smith adds, “may sometimes acquire a considerable fortune by two or three successful speculations; but is just as likely to lose one by two or three unsuccessful ones.”9 The second type of entrepreneur described in the WN is the projector. Hoselitz has...

... individuals should be compensated for their fate, that is, their genes, their parents, and the like; their fortune, that is, acquired advantages due either to effort or circumstances; and/or luck proper, that is, pure chance.5 In the extreme, luck egalitarians emphasize only the importance...

... against those who have none at all.”29 But it is not force alone that creates civil society. “Civil government,” says Smith, “suppose[s] a certain ~ubordinationThe principles of this subordination are four: the superiority of personal qualifications, of age, of fortune, and of birth. “Birth...

... programming of music videos, as the economic magazine offered the channel much-needed prestige, and it was even profitable. I tell another organizational story of invention in my contribution to this volume, albeit one focused on the career of a journalist. When John McDonald joined Fortune magazine...

... that a “secret concatenation” links the fortunes of the “great and the mean,” “the illus- trious and the obscure,” or more bluntly, the rich and the poor. Many an eighteenth- century thinker in Britain and elsewhere wrestled with the wide disparities of eco- nomic fortune that characterized commercial...

... business magazines were all fathered in the booming twenties: Busi- ness Week in 1929, Fortune in 1930 but conceived earlier, Forbes as early as 1917. 382  History of Political Economy 43:2 (2011) voice of political reporting. This coincided with the canonization of Wood- ward-Bernstein in journalism...

... the pursuit of self-interest by such classes is broadly congruent with behavior that Smith regards as moral, just, and honest. In the middling and inferior stations of life, the road to virtue and that to fortune, to such fortune, at least, as men in such stations can reasonably expect...

... , A. [1899] 1992 . The Folly of Amateur Speculators Makes the Fortunes of Professionals: The Wiles of Some Professionals. In Marshall on Speculation, by M. Dardi and M. Gallegati. HOPE 23.3 : 571 -93. Skidelsky , R. 1992 . John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 . London...

... interest in London. His chief supporters in his campaign for sheriff were Alder- man Harvey Conibe and Alderman Thomas Skinner, who had made immense fortunes, the one as a brewer and the other as an auctioneer. Both were members of Parliament and served as mayors of London. 356 HISTORY...

... of mathematical expectation and moral expectation, which Laplace picked up as “physical fortune” and “moral fortune.”22 The reason for this distinction was identified in 22. Daniel Bernoulli’s original essay is in the Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Im- perialis Petropolitanae with the title “Specimen...