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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 315–345.
Published: 01 June 2017
...-mannheim.de . Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Symbolic capital ownership of data expertise scientific credit business consulting science and democracy contingent valuation References Arrow Kenneth . Papers . Rubenstein Library Special Collections . Duke University...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 227–256.
Published: 01 December 2000
...; Kaufman 1993, 2001). The initial writings on personnel management were by management consultants (then called “counselors”) and business practitioners (see Federal Board for Vocational Education 1920). Prominent names among the former were Robert Valentine, Ordway Tead, and Meyer Bloomfield...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 233–265.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of Economic Research (NBER) in its analysis of busi- ness cycles, and consulted with economists when constructing BFDC data series (Alchon 1985; Hawley 1990, 299–307). In Agriculture, Henry Wal- lace had previously approached the pioneering econometrician Henry L. Moore for help in constructing demand...
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History of Political Economy (1981) 13 (3): 629–655.
Published: 01 September 1981
... relationships with clients, regulating admission to mem- bership, controlling members’ behavior, and defending their common interests towards society at large, whereas accountants, bookkeepers, and business consultants are all represented by professional associa- tions carrying some weight...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (suppl_1): 272–294.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Section, which was responsible for reporting on business trends, science activities, and economics and government (Clawson 1981, 50). This section fell under Oscar L. Altman’s responsibilities. The contract was for fifteen days a month of consulting work at a maximum.23 In a meeting chaired...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 165–176.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., which then is published under their “brand name” (think again of Irving Fisher, but there are many contemporary examples). In the Netherlands, almost every economics faculty established a consulting firm where they place grad students and permanent staff to forge links with the world of business...
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History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 268–283.
Published: 01 March 1973
... declined as the universal language of Western civiliza- tion and scholarly work began to be conceived and published in the vernacular, a host of translators sprang forth. They made many of Europe’s early writings, including those on economics and business, available outside the country...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 1–55.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in August 1962, I was replaced by Gardner Ackley. But I maintained close consulting relations with the Council for several more years.” 53. Bach was then at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and was asked by the board to organize the academic meetings. This letter was dated 15 November 1953...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 327–342.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Persons, Warren M. See also Harvard narrative making, 119 20, 136 37 narrative reasoning, 116, 119. Committee on Economic Research; Harvard Index of See also Malthus, Thomas General Business Conditions Robert; narrative inference consulting work, 155 56 National Bureau of Economic forecasting, 142 47, 156...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (2): 339–341.
Published: 01 June 2014
... works, devised to be consulted rather than read from cover to cover” (6), and the same is true of this monumental study of the treatment of economic crises and cycles in such refer- ence works, produced by a European research network on business cycle and crisis theories. Part 1, four...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (S1): 175–201.
Published: 01 December 2023
... who created the program and hosted it for the first fifteen years of its existence: he was a former business school student, representing a completely new profile of a journalist at the time. The appearance of the program is then shown to be inextricably linked to the emergence of private TV channels...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 220–253.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., Statistics, and Models in the Work of Irving Fisher and Wesley Mitchell .” Theory and Society 32 ( 3 ): 379 – 411 . ———. 2011 . “ What Do Market Designers Do When They Design Markets? Economists as Consultants to the Redesign of Wholesale Electricity Markets in the US .” In Social Knowledge...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (5): 895–924.
Published: 01 October 2020
... (“conversion”) could lead to a serious economic depression. The focus here is on a United Nations Consultative Group which had the remit of estimating the economic and social consequences of global disarmament. Using information from documents of the time, substantially supplemented with personal commentaries...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 163–175.
Published: 01 December 1995
... an international readership, North Americans and the Japanese are partic- ularly well represented. Document consultation is free. The records are stored in two adjacent strong rooms, secured against fire and theft and, for long-term conservation reasons, maintained at a constant temperature and relative...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Laetitia Lenel The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years...
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History of Political Economy (1981) 13 (3): 600–628.
Published: 01 September 1981
...) and is referred to as a graduate of the Economics School or ‘economics grad- uate,’ these graduates cannot be said to constitute a recognized profes- sion. Neither in government nor business employment is a graduate from an Economics School treated as a professional economist, nor, indeed, as one...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 513–535.
Published: 01 June 2024
... academic culture as a science-focused engineering school that fostered a competitive atmosphere and close relations between its economics department and business school was conducive to the development of such theories. After encountering Kendall's work, Samuelson suggested that a PhD student, Richard...
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History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (2): 398–414.
Published: 01 June 1971
...Neil H. Jacoby Mr. Jacoby is Armand Hammer Professor of Business Economics and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The President, the Constitution, and the Economist in Economic...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 163–181.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Association on Its Hundredth Anniversary. Journal of the American Statistical Association 36.215 : 329 -42. Hall, Robert L., and Charles J. Hitch. 1939 . Price Theory and Business Behaviour. Oxford Economic Papers 2 (May): 12 -45. Hirshleifer, Jack. 1977 . Economics from a Biological...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 577–608.
Published: 01 June 2023
... models. And yet, by focusing on the often-futile consultations with the United States, the article also highlights the limits of narrative. The article challenges Robert Shiller's description of the spread of an economic narrative as a “random event,” pointing instead to economists' role as storytellers...
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