... is borne by land- owners? If this is so, then do the same landowners bear indirect taxes in addition? Canard won the prize. Like the man with forty ecus, he pronounced that this was not true but only by turning the required solution into “one link in a chain of consequences” which Cournot...

...Stephen Littlechild Ronald Coase posed the question, Did Alfred Marshall know where he was born? Coase conjectured that Marshall's changing place of birth as reported in the 1881 and 1891 censuses was due to his vagueness in giving information about it to his wife. This article examines...

... economic development, with a view to addressing some questions about the history of recent development economics. First, in what sense, if any, is it accurate to say that development economics was born after World War II and these thinkers should be seen as precursors? Second, was the development economics...

... economics. While many economists straddled both worlds, Harvard economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron occupied pride of place by virtue of his ideas, his reputation, and his students. Born in Odessa but with his economic education in Vienna, Gerschenkron brought to both enterprises a capacious and wide...

... I argue that Ramsey did have an economics research agenda, born out of his close relationship with Arthur Cecil Pigou. I support my thesis mostly with an archival evidence not explored thus far: some notes deposited at the University of Pittsburgh, here published for the first time. Aldrich, J...

... as an economist, and examines his views on methodology and the influences Pellegino Rossi and Jean-Baptiste Say exerted in his thought and writings. In this context European economic liberalism of the 19 th century is revisited and the question about its relevance for the new-born states of South-Eastern Europe...

...Jonathan B. Wiener How can we explain the emergence of property rights from their absence, in the face of incentives to overuse open-access resources and obstacles to collective agreement on property systems? Blackstone said “necessity begat property,” and Bentham said “property and law were born...

... and development economics were born around the same time span, they evolved in different ways. Full histories of development economics started to appear in the 1980s, produced mostly by development economists and reflecting their experiences. This has changed in the last two decades or so, as historians...

... Bartley on the Turon goldfields, on which Coase based his claims of a deceitful and self-aggrandizing family, did not take place. Alfred did know where he was born and was happy to say so. Alfred’s grandfather, William, was not a forgotten business failure. Alfred’s father, also William, was neither...

... accounting was born out of a governmental project, implemented by institutionalist economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) during the interwar period, to manage “the business cycle.” Bridging the literatures on the history of economic policymaking of the interwar period and the postwar...

... (2001, 207–9) reproductions of the colloquium’s proceedings list him regularly present in 1929 and 1930. 4. Was present from 1918, with no absences. Emigrated in 1938 (Wendland 1999, 38). 5. Born in 1906, Bergmann earned his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1928. While studying, he was asked...

... CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 Alfred Marshall’s mother and father Ronald H. Coase John Maynard Keynes in his famous Memoir on Alfred Marshall opens with an extraordinary sentence. It reads: “Alfred Marshall was born at Clapham on 26 July 1842, the son of William Marshall, a cashier...

... animal whose very individuality is shaped by the cultural milieu and institutional structure into which he or she is born. People are not Robinson Crusoes, free of all social control. So the relevant place to begin the study of social economics is not with the independent individual-a mere...

... at the Turn of the Century. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20.3 : 347 -69. Kuczynski, R. R. 1901 . The Fecundity of the Native and Foreign Born Population in Massachusetts. Quarterly Journal of Economics 16.1 : 1 -36. Leonard, Thomas C. 2000 . The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern...

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...). What Stanfield means by this is simple. A human being is a social animal whose very individuality is shaped by the cultural milieu and institutional structure into which he or she is born. People are not Robinson Crusoes, free of all social control. So the relevant place to begin the study...

... in his concluding overview (see above), how do we define Amer- ican economists: “is it those born in the United States, those who were trained in the United States, or those who reside in the United States?” It would obviously be absurd to exclude any of the three categories, given...

.... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Book Reviews 377 ter is presumably correct, since his consideration of such British-born “Canadian” economists as Robert Gourlay and Edward Gibbon Wakefield is unambiguously fine. I am not comfortable...

... was wrong about economists doing their best work before age thirty. Only four of the 100 economists in the book were born as late as the decade of the 1940’s, and the youngest of these (Thomas Sargent and Michael Spence) were born in 1943 and were thus forty-one or forty-two when the volume...