...Floyd B. McFarland Dept. of Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 References Averitt , Robert T. 1972 . ‘The liberation of American politics from economy.’ Journal of Economic Issues 6 . 1 . Ayres...

... readers an idea of the wealth of materials to be found in Spanish economic literature and will arouse their interest in this lightly trodden field. JOSEFINACINTRON TIRYAKIAN Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres. Edited...

... edition (paperback). By C. E. Ayres. Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Press, 1978. Pp. xxxix, 324. $6.95. Scholars of the history of economics will be interested in the new edition of this provocative and profound book both as a primary source and as a sec- ondary source. Primarily...

... Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Evolution of American Institutionalism. Journal of the History of Economic Thought . Ayres, Clarence E. 1942 . Economic Value and Scientific Synthesis. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 1.4 : 343 -60. Ayres, Clarence. E. 1944...

... of Ayres’ disciples have done him a disservice by taking and advocating such extreme positions that they have tended to discredit the Ayresian system of philosophy and economics. In the process, they have converted Ayres’ theories into economic dogmas and his insights into trite platitudes...

..., particularly those studying the currently dominant neo-Walrasian theoretic paradigm. Yet even these chapters contain the book’s chief fault: contemporary institu- tional economics is narrowed largely to the John Dewey-Clarence Ayres line of development, and its epigones. Dewey’s concepts...

... of Economics 49 (May): 414 -53. ____. 1959 . A Short Account of My Intellectual Development. Alpha Kappa Delta 29 (winter): 3 -12. ____. 1976 . Clarence Ayres's Economics and Sociology. In Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres , edited by William Breit and William...

... assistance was provided by JoAnn Waller. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Allen , Garland E. 1969 . Hugo de Vries and the Reception of the “Mutation Theory.” Journal of the History of Biology 2 . 1 : 55 -87. Ayres , C. E. 1921a . Instinct and Capacity—I...

... that LW did not consider, and as an independent creation it will influence the future course of economic theory. Indiana University of Pennsylvania DONALDA. WALKER The Theory of Economic Progress. Third edition (paperback). By C. E. Ayres. Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues...

... in this lightly trodden field. JOSEFINACINTRON TIRYAKIAN Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres. Edited by William Breit and William Patton Culbertson, Jr. Austin: The Univer- sity of Texas Press, 1976, Pp. xvii + 210. $14.95...

... argument concerning the schizophrenic condi- tion of Veblen’s methodology, Seckler briefly reviews the major in- stitutionalists who followed one or the other doctrine. Ayres and Copeland represent the extreme cases of explicit behaviorism. Mitchell and Commons are viewed as pursuing...

...- tional economics is narrowed largely to the John Dewey-Clarence Ayres line of development, and its epigones. Dewey’s concepts of instrumental logic and social value are important elements in institutionalist theory, as are Ayres’ analyses of the economic-technological foundations of belief systems...

.... Breit, W., and W. P. Culbertson Jr., eds. 1976 . Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres . Austin: University of Texas Press. Caldwell, B., and A. W. Coats. 1984 . Comment on McCloskey: The Rhetoric of Economics. Journal of Economic Literature 22 : 575 -78. Coleman...

... C. E. Ayres who emphasized other aspects of the economic system. But when Pareto came to analyze the forces governing the distribution of power which had impact on the framework within which market activity took place, he left neo-Classical economics miles behind. The work of Veblen...

... University Press. Ayres, Clarence. n.d. Robert Brady Folder and Walton Hamilton Folder . Clarence Ayres Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin. Barber, William J. 1985 . From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921-1933...

.... Quarterly Journal of Economics 36 : 545 -80. Ayres , L. 1927 . The Dilemma of the New Statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association 22 : 1 -8. Bean , L. H. 1929 . The Farmer's Response to Price. Journal of Farm Economics 11 : 368 -85. Bence-Jones , H. 1900...

... , and Patton Culbertson William Jr 1976 . Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres . Austin: University of Texas Press. Brookings Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Buckley Jr. William F. [1951] 1986. God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom...

... sketches of the work of Veblen, Mitchell, Ayres, and Commons. Chapter 5, “New Institutionalism,” argues that the new institutionalists are basically complementary BR.Hope32.1.bookreviews 5/4/00 1:45 PM Page 175 Book...

...) and is currently working on Reflection without Rules: Economic Methodology and Contemporary Science Theory. Anne Mayhew is professor of history and associate dean of arts and sciences at the University of Tennessee. Among her current projects are a book on Clarence E. Ayres and his contributions to U.S...

... in that he analyzed an extremely long monthly index of business activ- ity from January 1790 to December 1929 prepared by Leonard Ayres. Despite the unreliability of such a long and comprehensive series, it is by far the largest economic time series subjected to periodogram analysis. Unlike Moore...