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Theorizing Application: The Case of Evolutionary Biology’s Theory of Games
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 58–77.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Paul Erickson This paper makes two related points about the nature of application that are potentially relevant to assessing the recent “applied turn” in economics. First, it draws upon the historiography of the sciences to suggest the kind of rhetorical work performed by distinctions between “pure...
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The Orderly Economists: Transatlantic Reformulations of Twentieth-Century Political Economy
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 687–688.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on the notion of order as the primary element of politico-economic theorizing and the role of the political economist, especially in normative debates about orders of economy and society. The minisymposium also connects to a renewed interest within several communities in the history of the social sciences about...
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Transatlantic Roads to Mont Pèlerin: “Old Chicago” and Freiburg in a World of Disintegrating Orders
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 745–784.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the sociology of science, and literary studies. 1 However, since this renewed interest has been mostly triggered by Germany's peculiar positions on fiscal and monetary policy during the eurozone crisis, the perennial claim that ordoliberalism has been a “German oddity” (Beck and Kotz 2017 ) or even...
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Emigration with a Pulled Handbrake: Friedrich A. Lutz's Internal Methodenstreit
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (1): 41–72.
Published: 01 February 2024
... the methods that should be applied in the explanation of economic phenomena. The roots of his teacher's hostility can be traced back to the Berlin years when in 1923, in the midst of hyperinflation, Eucken published Kritische Betrachtungen zum deutschen Geldproblem ( Critical Considerations of the German...
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The Role of Narratives in Transferring Rational Choice Models into Political Science
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 June 2023
... such that they applied to a specific target system in a new domain. In this article, the argument is that to overcome a set of challenges that hampered the straightforward transfer of game-theoretic models into political science, Riker complemented theoretical and conceptual modifications of von Neumann...
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The Growth and Marcescence of the “System for Optimal Functioning of the Economy” (SOFE)
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 155–179.
Published: 01 December 2019
... difficulties in managing the growing economy, opened the way to new approaches to Soviet economics. Scholars, primarily at a new Academy of Sciences institute for applying mathematics to economic problems—the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute—developed a series of models and policy recommendations...
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Beyond Altruism? Economics and the Minimization of Unselfish Behavior, 1975–93
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (2): 195–233.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., within the discipline itself, to the public policy implications of seemingly unselfish behavior. Then I shall argue that the various efforts to go beyond the self-interest model in economics and political science failed to build a coherent alternative model and produced equally ambiguous policy...
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Cameralism in Practice and Prussian Industrialization Policies
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (5): 963–997.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., was a cameralist who, having been trained in cameral sciences at university, tried to apply what he was taught to his industrial policy; second, Beuth's and Rother's industrialization policies accorded with the cameralist way of thinking in creating and promoting new manufacturing industries. Their ideologies were...
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Staatswissenschaften and the Mathematical Policy Science of Jan Tinbergen
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 489–512.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... The policy-oriented nature of Tinbergen's mathematical models appears to be closely in line with a more recent strand of literature that has studied economics as an applied or engineering science (Backhouse and Cherrier 2017 ; Duarte and Giraud 2020 ; Morgan 2020 ). This literature has rightly emphasized...
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Marginalism and the Boundaries of Economic Science
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History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (2): 325–343.
Published: 01 June 1972
..., first as applied to consumer
evaluations of economic goods and subsequently developed to cover
a wider range of economic quantities, marks a kind of coming of
age, when “economic theory was transformed from an art, in many
DONALDWINCH is Dem of the School of Social Sciences at the University...
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Better Living through Political Engineering
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (5): 909–935.
Published: 01 October 2024
... for economics: It is the duty, and it should be the delight, of the economists of our time to purge their science of the archaic dogmas of Adam Smith, and to found it directly upon the foundation of ethics itself—namely, utility—the only sound foundation for any applied science. In so doing they will have...
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Should Economists Abandon HOPE?
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History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (2): 252–260.
Published: 01 June 1975
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influence on the methodological backup to current orthodoxy.
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of payoff in economics compared with, e.g., the applied sciences is
simply due to (a) the late date of starting-hence the integral knowl-
edge is low12-and (b) the fact that resources devoted...
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The Old Economics of Science and the Nonlinear Model of Innovation: The Case of Richard Nelson
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (1): 119–154.
Published: 01 March 2018
... ‘Techonology’ as ‘Applied Science’: Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, 1880–1945 .” Isis 86 ( 2 ): 194 – 221 . Kreilkamp Karl . 1971 . “ Hindsight and the Real World of Science Policy .” Science Studies 1 ( 1 ): 43 – 66 . Kuhn Thomas . 1962a...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... London:Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1997 . van Daal, Jan, and Albert Jolink. 1993 . The Equilibrium Economics of Léon Walras . London and New York:Routledge. Weintraub, E. Roy, and Philip Mirowski. 1994 . The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical Economics. Science in Context 7.2 : 245...
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Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 21–49.
Published: 01 March 2001
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attempt to eliminate Hicks’s “glasses” from the mainstream interpreta-
tion of Pareto’s theory of choice and show that a coherent philosophical
standpoint supported his scientific results.
5. Pareto’s Philosophy of Science
5.1. Pure and Applied Science, or
Why Pareto Was Not an Ordinalist...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 10–27.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., he seeks less to de ne engineering than to characterize it in opposition to science: whereas sci- ence is about knowing, engineering is about doing things, that is Introduction 17 5. The notion of applied science has been a controversial one among historians of technol- ogy and on characterizing...
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Social Science under Watch: Following the Money Trail
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (1): 161–168.
Published: 01 February 2022
... to include support for applied science, which meant that social research that promised practical applications potentially fell under the NSF purview. Following debate, Congress passed the Daddario amendment in the summer of 1968, but that was not enough to put an end to controversy regarding the social...
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From Rigor to Axiomatics: The Marginalization of Grif.th C. Evans
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History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (Supplement): 227–259.
Published: 01 December 1998
.... Mirowski 1994 . The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical Economics. Science in Context 7 . 2 : 245 -72. Whittaker , E. T 1959 . Biography of Vito Volterra, 1860–1940. In Theory of Functionals and of Integral and Integro-differential Equations . Edited by V. Volterra. New...
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L. L. Price: Memories and Notes of an Oxford Economist
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (4): 633–640.
Published: 01 November 1996
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as a neutral observer, insisting that the “professor has a claim to take
part in the guidance of economic affairs, which is derived from his sci-
entific study.” For Price, economics was “essentially an applied science”
(1896, 166). Characteristically, however, Price refused to be drawn...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 30–51.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Hungary .” East Central Europe 44 : 309 – 39 . Péteri György . 2018 . “ Applied Science in Stalin’s Time: Hungary, 1945–1953 .” In Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century , edited by Kaldeway David Schauz Désirée , 205 – 27 . New York...
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