...Malcolm Rutherford Book Reviews Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics. By Charles Camic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 492 pp. $39.95. This remarkable book provides what, to date, is by far the most detailed look at the early life, education, and professional...

...Charles Camic This article considers the early intellectual career of Thorstein Veblen through the lens of his hitherto neglected 1895 English translation of System der Finanzwissenschaft (1889), an eight-hundred-page treatise on public finance by Gustav Cohn, a German historical economist of high...

... restricts himself to the history of his discipline in North America and so largely does Robert Adcock on the history of political science; other contributors, including Kevin Passmore on the history of history and Charles Camic on the history of sociology, are wider ranging. The most stimulating...

...): 640 –50. ———, ed. 1959 . The Society of Fellows . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Buxton William . 1985 . Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Camic Charles . 1987 . The Making of a Method: A Historical Reinterpretation...

... introductory chapter by the coeditors, Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson Pooley, the bulk of this book focuses on particular social ills that attracted scholarly and public interest. Individual chapters take up the following topics: the family (Savina Balasubramanian and Charles Camic), education (Andrew Jewett...

... Economics: A Case of Reproductive Failure? In From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism , edited by Mary S. Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford.HOPE 30 (supplement): 108 -33. Camic, Charles. 1991 . Introduction: Talcott Parsons before The Structure of Social Action. In Talcott Parsons:The Early...

... ( supplement ): 131 -56. Camic , Charles , and Yie Xie. 1994 . The Statistical Turn in American Social Science: Columbia University, 1890 to 1915. American Sociological Review 59 : 773 -805. Cargill , Thomas F. 1974 . Early Applications of Spectral Methods to Economic Time Series. HOPE...

... no doubt that had Veblen still been alive that is exactly what he would have been doing (Rutherford 2018). Greater attention to Veblen and his nonproductivity theory of distribution is indicated, and Camic s book is an excellent place to start. Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria 10.1215/00182702...

..., including Kevin Passmore on the history of history and Charles Camic on the history of sociology, are wider ranging. The most stimulating chapter, in this reviewer’s opinion, is that on the history of anthropology by the late Henrika Kuklick, a historian of science who was trained as a sociologist...

... of Political Economy 32 ( supplement ): 1 – 24 . Bastable C. F. 1892 . Public Finance . London : Macmillan . Bullock Charles J. Papers . Harvard University . ———. ( 1906 ) 1920 . Selected Readings in Public Finance . Reprint , Boston : Ginn . Camic Charles . 2010...

...: A Study of the Evolution of American Industry . New York: McGraw-Hill. Burns, Eveline M. 1936 . Toward Social Security: An Explanation of the Social Security Act and a Survey of the Larger Issues . New York: McGraw-Hill. Camic, Charles, and Yu Xie. 1994 . The Statistical Turn in American Social...

...? Economists as Consultants to the Redesign of Wholesale Electricity Markets in the U.S .” In Social Knowledge in the Making , edited by Camic Charles Gross Neil Lamont Michèle , 379 – 403 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Breslau Daniel . 2013...

... in the Making , edited by Camic Charles Gross Neil Lamont Michele , 379 – 404 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bruce-Briggs B. , ed. 1979 . The New Class? New York : McGraw Hill . Bureau of Economic Analysis . 2000 . “ GDP: One of the Great Inventions of the 20th...

... Pier Franceso Fiorito Luca . 2008 . “ Was Frank Knight an Institutionalist? ” Review of Political Economy 20 ( 1 ): 59 – 77 . Camic Charles Hodgson Geoffrey M. , eds. 2011 . Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen . London : Routledge . Hamilton Walton H. 1919...

... Press . Calhoun Craig . 2007 . “Sociology in America: An Introduction.” In Sociology in America: A History , edited by Calhoun C. , 1 – 38 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Callon Michel , ed. 1998 . The Laws of the Markets . Oxford : Blackwell . Camic...

... of the Dar- winian ideas adopted by Veblen by characterizing them as “biological analogies.” But Veblen’s Darwinism was much less about analogy and much more about ontological communality between the social and the biological world (Camic and Hodgson 2011; Hodgson and Knudsen 2010). The promise...

... underemphasizes all this. He diminishes the significance of the Dar- winian ideas adopted by Veblen by characterizing them as “biological analogies.” But Veblen’s Darwinism was much less about analogy and much more about ontological communality between the social and the biological world (Camic...

... by characterizing them as “biological analogies.” But Veblen’s Darwinism was much less about analogy and much more about ontological communality between the social and the biological world (Camic and Hodgson 2011; Hodgson and Knudsen 2010). The promise of the Veblenian program, alas unful- filled...

... by characterizing them as “biological analogies.” But Veblen’s Darwinism was much less about analogy and much more about ontological communality between the social and the biological world (Camic and Hodgson 2011; Hodgson and Knudsen 2010). The promise of the Veblenian program, alas unful- filled...

... underemphasizes all this. He diminishes the significance of the Dar- winian ideas adopted by Veblen by characterizing them as “biological analogies.” But Veblen’s Darwinism was much less about analogy and much more about ontological communality between the social and the biological world (Camic...