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... . Weintraub E. Roy . 2002 . How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . Durham, N. C. : Duke University Press . Institutionalism in Action: Balancing the Substantive Imbalances of the Economy through the Veil of Money Onur Özgöde Historians of economics and social scientists working...

... Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 poverty theory in action travel writing India Romesh Chunder Dutt Traveling opens up our mind, broadens our ideas, enlarges our sympathies, and makes us better fitted to receive new impressions and new incentives to work. —Romesh Chunder Dutt...

... stories are told, historians have lost sight of the travels of knowledge beyond lecture halls and scholarly journal pages. To explore that terrain I propose we reconceive scientific practice as communicative action. By studying the social lives of books, pamphlets, and newsprint that cross back and forth...

... functions. Donald A. Walker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change. By Eduardo Gian- netti Da Fonseca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 256 pp. How important are the ideas created by economists...

... Verallgemeinerung des Brouwerschen Fixpunktsatzes.” In Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums, edited by Karl Menger . Wendler Reinhard . 2013 . Das Modell zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft . Munich : Wilhelm Fink Verlag . A Model to “Make Decisions and Take Actions”: Leif Johansen’s...

...Philippe Fontaine Abstract The concept of commitment has achieved a significant presence across US postwar social science, enjoying increased visibility from the mid-1950s. Economists insist that commitment is the result of a decision to bind oneself to a line of action; they use the concept...

...Kenneth Button This article is concerned with the foresights that Alfred Kahn had when he led the deregulation of the US passenger airline industry, and in particular with the role the ideas in his Economics of Regulation played in his actions. Kahn was a reluctant deregulator of the US interstate...

... on the BIS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision engaged in implementation rationality through simulation in the form of the Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP). The examination of iterative modeling and solving for rules of action at the LSL and in the RCAP suggests that the explicit...

...William Darity, Jr.; Arden Kreeger We examine the history of the entry of black American graduate students into the PhD program in economics at MIT in the 1970s. The deployment of an active and aggressive affirmative action program led to the presence of a critical mass of black doctoral students...

...Vernon L. Smith This report summarizes some of the findings of an experimental investigation motivated by the question, How might exchange, specialization, and property—rules governing actions—emerge jointly in human economic betterment? Sparse experimental instructions in a virtual village...

... in the presence of externalities. We show that, in contrast with what most economists admit, Buchanan argued that, even if externalities are a cause of ``market failures,'' this cannot be used to legitimate the intervention of the state, because individuals tend to pay for the external effects their actions...

... activity as a particular form of market activity. While he extended the logic of market exchange to state activity, he recognized the need to theorize in light of significant differences in institutional arrangements between markets and states. Collective action was guided by tax prices and not market...

...Tiziano Raffaelli Cattaneo’s view of the economy and society is based on the joint action of innate human faculties (Vico’s nativo ), local variety, and outside influences (Romagnosi’s dativo ), which produce as many historical combinations as there are peoples on the earth. Economic activity...

... to turn into action the mediation between the Gospel and history proposed by Catholic social thinking. Economists made that effort under the influence of what could be regarded as the last stage of a tradition that was already present in the culture of economic matters and behavior and had previously been...

.... Practitioners with an allegiance to economic theory took exception to Herskovits's insistence that culture be accepted as a primary determinant of human behavior; those with a commitment to anthropology proved equally resistant to his premise that all economic action be understood as “economizing...

... on economic policy; and we reject Numa’s claims that Dupuit advocated state control of railroads as the optimal course of action. Correspondence may be addressed to Robert B. Ekelund Jr., 404 Blake Street, Auburn, AL 36830 (e-mail: [email protected] ); and to Robert F. Hébert, 998 Stanford Avenue...

..., unintended consequences of our practical actions. My purpose here to explore the relationship between economics and engineering not in analogy but in actuality. The strategy is, first, to set the context for this discussion; second, to look at the nature of science and mathematics in relation to engineering...

... and recombination and that ended up converging more or less coincidentally in some aspects). The agents of enlightened reformism in different European monarchies and in Portugal in particular, collected a wide range of ideas and inspirations for administrative action which included, sometimes consciously, sometimes...

... and prospects for future speculative investments in the mines. However, while political economists blamed the financial crisis on the uncertainty generated by the actions of the Bank of England and private banks, the commercial travelers focused on other sources of observational and representational error...