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... of empirical work: it involves a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work, which raised the prestige of the latter. The meaning of economic theory and applied work and the boundaries between them changed as theory and empirical work alike became more applied in the sense...

... of development economics theories involved learning in the field and developing new analyses and concepts out of this experience, not just taking ideas from other fields and applying them in a different context. During the 1950s the discipline prospered but, by the 1960s, it faced a crisis, for it came...

..., and equilibrium to generate and test economic hypotheses; and (from the late 1990s) a partial abandonment of economic theory in applied work in the “experimentalist paradigm.” We document these changes by coding the content of all applied micro articles published in the “Top 5 journals” in 1951–55, 1974–75...

...” or “basic” science and applied science, noting how distinctions appear to underwrite particular economies of credit within the scientific community and beyond it. Second, by exploring the relevance of this historiography to the case of evolutionary biology’s theory of games, it demonstrates how one...

... in most disciplines (see Michell 1993, 1999). When applied to utility theory, the representational view associates ordinal utility, cardinal utility, and classically measurable utility with specific scales of measurement, respec- tively, the ordinal scale, the interval scale, and the ratio scale...

... significant changes in economists’ practices, but to explain how and why economics changed, other factors need to be considered. It conjectures that the most profound effect of the increased availability of computers may have been to challenge the boundary between theory and applied work. Correspondence...

...Arie Arnon The Restriction period that began in England in 1797 marked a crucial turning point for monetary theory and policy. The debates during the Restriction concerning the relationship between inflation, the exchanges and monetary aggregates came to be known as the “Bullion Debate...

... Department of the Bank of Spain, applied the theory of disposable funds to interpret a wide range of economic, monetary, and financial events in a series of reports that he drafted for advising the board of the bank during the period 1932–36, in the midst of the Great Depression. Correspondence may...

... Hong, Xu Yunan, Teng Maotong, Wu Qiyuan. Xu Yunan and Wang Chuanlun prepared a translation of the General Theory in the 1940s, but it was not published until 1957. At Harvard, Keynes's ideas were applied in several doctoral dissertations by Chinese students. H. D. Fong, one of the leaders of the Nankai...

... ( March–June ): 307 –17. ———. 2001 Applying Growth Theory across Countries. World Bank Economic Review 15.2 : 283 –88. Temple, J. 1999 . The New Growth Evidence. Journal of Economic Literature 37 ( March ): 112 –56. ———. 2005 . Dual Economy Models: A Primer for Growth Economists...

... for applying economic theory to reveal insights into concrete economic events that have taken place over time. Correspondence may be addressed to Michael McLure, University of Western Australia, Economics M251, 35 Stirling Highway, WA 6009, Australia; e-mail: [email protected] . I would like...

..., industrial society, or Fordism.2 Leif Johansen, the Norwegian economist and com- munist, who is central in the following exposition, for instance, argued the very “necessity of applying economic theory” in his internationally in¯u- ential textbook Public Economics (1965). Given the unprecedented...

...-evidently constructing their observations rather than merely observing them. Apparent anomalies between the constructs and the predictions for economic man led to a fierce debate over the merits of contingent valuation—a debate that hinged on the question of whether economic theory was being “applied...

..., Joseph Schumpeter (although Tobin 1947b, 14, 26, did cite Schumpeter’s and Alvin Hansen’s memorial articles on Keynes in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Schumpeter on Keynes’s consump- tion function as a spectacular example of an unintended contribution by pure theory to applied research...

... and European fiscal debate by showing how physiocratic theories could be applied in this matter.28 It seems that Du Pont conducted a preliminary work for Tur- got in 1768, but it never went beyond that point, likely because of a short- age of funds. At the time Quesnay wrote to Méliand, he was also...

...Verena Halsmayer Combining concrete policy-oriented modeling strategies of World War II with what was received as traditional neoclassical theory, in 1956 Robert Solow constructed a simple, clean, and smooth-functioning “design” model that served many different purposes. As a working object...

...Joan O'Connell In outlining his theory of economic growth and income distribution, Kaldor made a “logical slip”: while in his model, workers might save, workers' assets were accounted for. Kaldor acknowledged the strong influence of Kalecki and Keynes on his work. What is suggested here...

... of economists. It then uses “control as a viewpoint” from which to study the history of the two disciplines. It reveals why behaviorism did not meet consumer demand theory during the “ordinalist / revealed preferences revolution” of the 1930s (i.e., the behaviorist myth), despite common methodological...