... of facets to the present volume. Although its prime foci are the bibliographic and the historiographic, the annotations extend the scope of its appeal. University of Newcastle, New South Wales BARRYGORDON Economics and the Truman administration. Edited by Francis H. Heller. Law...

...: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen GmbH. Moss , Laurence S. 1995 . Platonic Deception as a Theme in the History of Economic Thought: The Administration of Monetary Policy. Working Paper, Babson College. Moynihan , Daniel Patrick. 1990 . On the Law of Nations . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

...L. J. Hume Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Charles Davenant on financial administration L. J. Hume Davenant has long been granted a modest but relatively secure place in the history of economic thought, among the founders or precursors of British...

...-reproducing “administrative monsters,” the most powerful being the military industries distorted industrial structure, degraded civilian life, and ultimately made reform impossible. Administrative Monsters: Yurii Yaremenko s Critique of the Late Soviet State Adam E. Leeds Terra Incognita In 1983, speaking...

...Georg Eckert The state of Württemberg provides an interesting example for the evolution of economic doctrines. Between 1781 and 1819, in an age of unrelenting reform, Cameralism was enforced here—as the career of Friedrich List shows: starting as a clerk in the administration of Württemberg, he...

... 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...

... possible by the market itself. Character could replace administrative interventions. Chalmers saw well-intentioned administration, especially with respect to the poor laws, as both crowding out inner motivations and creating a focus for the fermenting of dissent over the terms of “legal charity.” Better...

... system. Integration, unification, and centralization were on the agenda. Viennese government circles relied on Cameralism as the leading theory of state, economy, and society, while Cameralism rose, broadened, and became institutionalized in administration and higher education. The most important works...

...Beatrice Cherrier; Aurélien Saïdi This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick...

...Romain Huret This essay analyzes the network of social experts who launched the War on Poverty in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1963 to 1968. If they are often neglected in historical accounts, which are focused on public intellectuals and presidential advisers, these experts played...

... and political discrimination. The ethics committees dealt with the involvement of association members with nonuniversity patrons, in the wake of revelations about Project Camelot. The committees on political discrimination examined allegations that university administrations were discriminating against radical...

... the Second World War, and the firm support of the MIT administration for Samuelson’s research serves to pinpoint the meaning of being technical for Samuelson, and the relation of the technical economic expert to the realm of politics. Correspondence may be addressed to Harro Maas, Utrecht School...

... the use of visual language in economics textbooks intended for nonspecialists, in periodicals such as the Survey (a monthly magazine intended for an audience of social workers), and by various state departments and agencies during the Roosevelt administration. We focus on two types of visuals...

... eighteenth-century political philosophy, anthropology, and state administration. Far from being merely a celebration of ancient republican virtues, the cult of great men was influenced by the newly discovered, formulated, and popularized scientific laws of nature and by an increasingly systematic interest...

... and political independence. The new visions and representations of the empire were put forward by authors faithful to enlightened mercantilist and cameralist doctrines supporting the reform of colonial administration. However, the most relevant policy measures were implemented under the shadow of Adam Smith...

..., it was reinterpreted and incorporated into the fiscal program of the American political coalition supporting the New Deal, especially by the Committee for Economic Development. In the 1960s, Keynesian economists associated with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations reformulated yet again the notion. Drawing...

...Raphaël Fèvre This article analyzes the ordoliberal discourse in the early postwar period (1946–50) and the way it gained traction on the political stage. My contention is that the ordoliberals sought to establish a continuity between the economic order of the Nazis and the administration...

...Keith Tribe The British Colonial Office was responsible for the administration of all the various elements of the British Empire (except India) from 1854 until its final merger with the Foreign Office in the mid-1960s, but only in the 1940s did it begin to take an active interest in social...

...Donna Zapf As dean of Duke University’s Graduate School, Craufurd Goodwin initiated the foundation of a Graduate Liberal Studies program. This essay pays tribute to his contribution to the program as an administrator and teacher over three decades. It describes Goodwin’s thoughts about graduate...

...E. Roy Weintraub This paper reviews Craufurd Goodwin’s distinctive role as scholar-administrator from his arrival as a student at Duke in 1955 to his move to the Ford Foundation in 1970. Craufurd Goodwin international programs Duke administration Taylor Cole Copyright © 2019 Duke...