...William Darity, Jr. Hans Christoph Binswanger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x, 131 pp. Cloth, $21.50. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews Money and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust. By Hans Christoph...

....” Economics, on the other hand, involves thinking participants, not base metals. There are “easily influenced by theories and therefore highly susceptible to the methods of alchemy.” This statement can virtually be under- stood as a comment on Goethe’s Faust. (ix–x) Binswanger is rather...

...: Metropolis. Binswanger, H. C. 1985 . Geld und Magie . Stuttgart: Weitbrecht. Böhm, S., et al., eds. 2001 . Is There Progress in Economics? Knowledge, Truth, and the History of Economic Thought . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Bombach, G., et al., eds. 1976 . Der Keynesianismus. Vol. 2 of Die...

... conception of political economy and the Aristotelian household economy. Hans Christoph Binswanger discusses the mercantilists’ conception of the role of money and argues that mercantilistic ideas on banking have ultimately prevailed in practice, although money was regarded as subordinate...

..., John. [1898] 1969 . The History of Gambling in England . Montclair, N.J.: Patterson Smith. Bacon, Francis. [1620] 2000 . The New Organon . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barbon, Nicholas. [ 1690 ]. A Discourse on Trade . London: Milbourn. Binswanger, Hans Christoph. 1994 . Money...

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..., Murray R. 1935. Theodor Brinkmann’s Economics of the Farm Busi- ness, translation series No. 2. Berkeley: Social Science Research Council. Binswanger, Hans F?, Robert E. Evenson, Cecilia A. Florencio, and Benjamin N. White, eds. 1980. Rural Household Studies in Asia. Singapore: Kant Ridge...

... optimization and economic theory . New York. Jaynes , Gerald D. 1984 . ‘Economic theory and land tenure.’ In Hans P. Binswanger and Mark R. Rosenzweig, eds., Contractual arrangements, employment, and wages in rural labor markets in Asia (New Haven), 43 -62. Johnson , D. Gale 1950...