...Tiago Mata; Francisco Louçã Robert Solow's “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function” (1957) has had an enduring influence on macroeconomics. In this article, we examine the history of fluctuations in growth theory through the story of the “Solow residual” as a “black box.” We show...

... of liberals” (p. 262) seem questionable to say the least. The Queen’s University of Betfast R. D. COLLISONBLACK Inside the black box: technology and economics. By Nathan Rosenberg. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 304. $29.95 hardcover, $12.95 paperback...

... responses by the authors of the two cri­tiques. Hester Correspondence may be addressed to Michael T. Belongia, Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, Box 1848, University, MS 38677 (mvpt@earthlinknet) and Peter N. Ireland, Department of Economics, Bost­on College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue...

... began his tenure in Iowa City in 1919, no dated docu- ments on these topics exist prior to 1922. Box and folder identifi cations are from the Frank H. Knight Papers, University of Chicago Archives. 1921 * “The Religion of a Skeptic.” Philosophical Club, University of Iowa, 10 May...

... it is not overly brittle. Many sheets are crumpled badly, especially at the edges, but little text has been lost. All newspaper clippings have been photocopied on acid-free paper. Description of series Notebooks, ca. 1867-1920 (box nos. 1-3). Contain excerpts from works on political economy, definitions...

...): “as is the case with most concepts, the derivation of the box diagram had its roots in sev- eral innovations, all of which contributed to its development.” I then went on to summarize these innovations in order to give credit where credit is due. Below is my original summary (pp. 195-96): (A) Jevons...

... but to no avail. He then took the project with him when relocating to Vanderbilt one year later. Brans- comb to Borba de Moraes, February 13, 1947, Vanderbilt University Archives (henceforth VUA), RG 300, box 271, folder 19, Institute for Brazilian Studies, 1947 1948. 13. The list includes two of the central...

... to have started twenty-two years ago when I read The Good Society” (Hayek to Lippmann, Decem- ber 18, 1959, Hayek Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, box 62, folder 7; I thank Bruce Caldwell for permission to quote this and other short fragments of unpublished material from the Hayek Papers...

... to as PASP box, folder, item, or PASP box, item, if folder and item are the same. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Backhouse Roger . 2012 . “Paul Samuelson, RAND, and the Cowles Commission Activity Analysis Conference, 1947-1949.” Mimeo, version 2 . Balisciano...

... of his death in their cor­ 1. Simons’s pamphlet sold nearly twenty-four thousand copies by November 1949. Univer­ sity of Chicago Press Papers, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, “Stock Short Report,” November 1, 1949, box 422, folder 1. About the significance and influence of Simons’s...

.... The entertainment 2. The biographical material is taken from Hagemann 1997, the most exhaustive biograph- ical article available on Marschak; Marschak’s own memories of his youth in Russia gathered for the UCLA Oral History Project (Marschak 1971); and archival material (boxes 143, 144, and 148...

... Economics 7 ( September ): 221 -29. Bladen, Vincent. 1958 . Letter to H. G. Johnson , 17 February . Box 31, Correspondence to 1963, unsorted. Buchanan, James M. 1992 . Better Than Ploughing and Other Personal Essays . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Cairncross, Alec. 1998...

...). 8. Klein to Samuelson, April 9, 1945, PASP, box 45, folder “Klein, Lawrence R.” 9. Samuelson to Klein, April 17, 1945, PASP, box 45, folder “Klein, Lawrence R.” 138  Yann Giraud secured a contract with McGraw-Hill in the meantime, he made his intent clearer to his former student: “To my...

... . Focus, August. Box 566, folder “The Age of Uncertainty: BBC program: articles: Focus, August 1976,” Galbraith Papers . Kelley David . 1977 . “ Distorted Picture: A Hard Look at Galbraith’s ‘Age of Uncertainty.’ ” Barron’s , July 18 . Kilborn Peter . 1977 . “ Galbraith on TV...

... of Commerce and Business Administra- tion,” 29 September 1944, SGC, Box 3, Commerce Deanship file; 43d Report, 18, 228). 2. This essay is based primarily on original sources in the university archives, all of which are located in the university library of the University of Illinois at Urbana...

... to as PR and date of issue. 7. Samuelson to Garnsey, December 11, 1943, papers, box 32, folder “general correspon- dence,” Paul Samuelson Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University. The date of this arrangement is not known with certainty. Samuelson wrote...

... and Cultural Imperialisms: The Founda- tions at Home and Abroad. Boston: Hall. Ball, Robert. 1963. Memo to Wilbur Cohen, Proposed Approach to Poverty Prob- lem, 12 December, folder “Poverty-CEA,” box 20. In Merriam Papers. Balogh, Brian. 1991. Reorganizing the Organizational Synthesis: Federal-Profes...

... with particular care through the snow with a box of meticulously arranged punch cards, headed toward the computer center. To her colleagues she “carried her own weight,” even if she did not head her own workshop. Instead, she was a regular at others' workshops in the University of Chicago's vaunted economics...

... . Menger Carl . 1867–68 . “ Geflügelte Worte .” Carl Menger Papers, Box 2: Notebooks . David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University , Durham, North Carolina . Menger Carl . 1875–89 . Tagebuch . Carl Menger Papers, Box 21: Biographical Materials . David M...