... funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that enabled Arrow to develop a theoretical and macroeconomic theory of increasing returns. We then examine the influence of John Dewey's experiential approach to education on Arrow's use of the notion of “learning by doing” and its approximation...

... . Economic Theory and the Natural Science Point of View. American Economic Review 21.1 : 67 -79. Dewey, John. [1896] 1972 . The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology. In vol. 5 of John Dewey: The Early Works, 1882-1898 , edited by J. A. Boydston, 96 -109. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press...

... in mind. The working title was "The Relevance of Economic Analysis to Prediction and Policy." Hirsch and de Marchi are aware that Friedman was more interested in doing economics and could have had only a superficial knowledge of Karl Popper's and John Dewey's works, which enter...

....’ In Breit and Culbertson. Daugert , Stanley 1950 . The philosophy of Thorstein Veblen . New York Dewey , John 1930 . Human nature and conduct (1922). Reprint, New York. Dewey , John 1939 . Theory of valuation. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (Chicago), 2.4...

... contributions. In five of the remaining essays, Tilman explores the sources of Veblen’s genius by describing his relationships to Darwin and biology, to psychological theories, to American Pragmatism and John Dewey, to Kant, and to modern industrialism...

.... It contributed towards moving him away in methodology--from John Dewey, a teacher whom he much admired, and helped to confirm his a posteriori position at a time when he might have begun to have doubts. This important chapter in Mitchell’s early career will be examined in this article. MR...

..., particularly those studying the currently dominant neo-Walrasian theoretic paradigm. Yet even these chapters contain the book’s chief fault: contemporary institu- tional economics is narrowed largely to the John Dewey-Clarence Ayres line of development, and its epigones. Dewey’s concepts...

... and John Dewey’s pragmatic 770 History of Political Economy 23:4 (1991) philosophy of science, as well as comparisons of Friedman’s methodology with these. Part 2 is a critique of Friedman’s positive economics in light of his meth- odology. This includes chapters on Friedman’s work on modeling...

... a Concept of Workable Competition. American Economic Review 30 (June): 241 -56. Commons, John R. 1934 . Institutional Economics . New York: Macmillan. Cookingham, Mary E. 1987 . Social Economists and Reform: Berkeley, 1906-1961. HOPE 19.1 : 47 -65. Dewey, John. 1926 . The Historic...

... which Waller might have noted, one overlooked by Gruchy in his recent Reconstruction of economics (I 987) and the essential possibility of which is denied, is that Veblen in his last book, Absentee ownership, favorably footnotes John Dewey on page 16. Footnotes with Veblen, as every scholar...

...- sionalization process can be grasped is the concept of “interdependence” which, according to Haskell, represented for John Dewey and his generation an intellectualization of the objective conditions of their society-or, more accurately, an intellectualization of the direction in which objective...

...,” and therefore “bad,” in place of any proper analysis of functions, dys- functions, alternatives, and trade-offs. A pragmatic or instrumental value theory need not be constructed like this. John Dewey’s instrumentalism was much more a matter of valuation emerging through an informed and democratic discourse...

...- tional economics is narrowed largely to the John Dewey-Clarence Ayres line of development, and its epigones. Dewey’s concepts of instrumental logic and social value are important elements in institutionalist theory, as are Ayres’ analyses of the economic-technological foundations of belief systems...

... 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...

... taught economic history to MIT graduate students in economics for forty-five years during this long decline, and my account consequently contains an autobiographical bias. The story begins with Davis Rich Dewey, older brother of John Dewey and professor of economics at MIT until 1940. He was one...

... philosophy (John Dewey), and Veblen’s social interpretation of the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin (218). Readers will have their own views on the extent to which these three persist today, but even if they all did, an evolution- ary perspective would lead one to expect that the open-ended future...

... as microeconomic diversity and the role of knowledge in generating growth. In chapter6, Bush and Tool place normative issues of evaluation at the cen- ter, proposing “instrumental” valuation principles owing much to the work of John Dewey. In the following chapterLanglois and Sabooglu discuss...

... qualifications included an undergraduate degree from Michigan, where he first came into contact with the inductive approach championed by the philosopher of American pragmatism, John Dewey, and twelve years of postgraduate study in Germany. The most formative years of this German period Gay spent...

... and a national dis- ’ grace. Ayres was the greatest philosopher of the institutional school of economic thought. His supreme achievement was to create a valid synthesis of Thorstein Veblen’s flamboyant socioeconomic criticism with John Dewey’s intricate and sophisticated instrumental...

... Commission and became deeply involved in issues of railway accounting and regulation. Cooley had been a graduate student of John Dewey’s, when Dewey was at Michigan, and he maintained a Deweyan emphasis on society as an organism and on the social construction of the mind. Cooley be- gan teaching...