...Sebastian Berger This article deals with the theory of social costs by K. William Kapp, as outlined in his book The Social Costs of Private Enterprise (1950). This work is a continuation of the socialist calculation debate, in which Kapp defended the possibility of rational planning...

... potential and actual outcomes in terms of what Weber called “substantive rationality.” It will then be argued that, while Neurath’s proposals for marketless socialism fell by the wayside, the point of implicit agreement between Neurath and Weber was recognized by K. William Kapp and made a central element...

... of Thorstein Veblen, Walton Hamilton, J. M. Clark, and K. William Kapp. It is seen that the main lines of the institutionalist critique of markets have been remarkably consistent over time and clearly allow for much room for government intervention, particularly in the form of administrative departments...

... perplexed and polarized econo- mists, it is the failure of economics to come to grips with present and po- tential pollution and environmental disruption attributable to runaway, un- monitored economic development. K. William Kapp accuses economic theory of irrelevance: “[It] has been made...

... of Political Economy 47 (annual suppl.)  DOI 10.1215/00182702-3130547 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 268 Contributors of K. William Kapp’s economics, and the economics of scientific knowledge. He has worked as a visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri– Kansas...

... with present and po- tential pollution and environmental disruption attributable to runaway, un- monitored economic development. K. William Kapp accuses economic theory of irrelevance: “[It] has been made increasingly more abstract and fot-ma1 at the price of a loss of relevance...

... . Hewitt Rachel . 2010 . Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey . London : Granta Books . Kapp K. William Kapp Lore L. 1951 . A Graphic Approach to Economics: Selected Principles and Problems . New York : Henry Holt . Kerman Cynthia Earl . 1974 . Creative...

... Enterprise, 238 Kapp, K. William The Social Costs of Private background, 227–29 Enterprise, 79, 227–28, and environmental and 237–40 international focus, support for early work, 231–32 232–34...

... until compara- tively recently, for his approach was going against the tide of an increas- ingly technical profession. But Tiebout is far from being the only economist whose message or larger body of work was minimized or obscured by this technical turn. The same can be said for K. William Kapp...

...,” Journal of the History of Biology 13 (Fall 1980): 195- 289. 17. William Darwin, Recollections of Charles Darwin, Darwin Papers, Cambridge Uni- versity Library, Box I 12, p. 1; Francis Darwin, Life and letters, 1:97. 18. Colp, “Contacts between Darwin and Marx,” p. 334. I thank Philip...

... a model of social pro- ductivity becomes obvious” (211).13 13. External economies as an important phenomenon at the level of the industrial sector as a whole (not just at the microeconomic level assumed, e.g., by Gudin) were also stressed by development economist K. William Kapp ([1962] 1963...