..., and Economic Change: The Economic Thought of J. A. Schumpeter (l905–1925). By Nicolo De Vecchi. Translated by Anne Stone. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, l995. 192 pp. $80.00 Here is a reminder that the most interesting economist of the twentieth century...

... 1984 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 Thorstein Veblen and the processes of institutional change Malcolm Ruthe$ord I A number of commentators on Veblen’s work on the processes of institu...

...John E. Elliott Neil J. Smelser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. xli, 206206. $3.25 paper. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 BOOK REVIEWS Karl Marx: On Society and Social Change. Edited by Neil J. Smelser. Chicago: University of Chicago...

...John E. Elliott History of Political Economy I I:3 C 1979 by Duke University Press Continuity and change in the evolution of Marx’s theory of alienation: from the Manuscripts through the Grundrisse to Capital...

.... California State University, Fullerton JAMES L. DIETZ Economic Thought and Social Change. By J. Ron Stanfield. Carbondale, Illi- nois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Pp. xxi, 194. $12.95. Stanfield has written an excellent book, primarily addressed to academic...

... CCC 00 18-2702/85/$1.50 Wicksell on technical change and real wages William Coleman I Will technical progress augment or depress real wages? On a theoretical level this issue over the last 170 years has been tackled by a number of different analytical...

... functions. Donald A. Walker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Beliefs in Action: Economic Philosophy and Social Change. By Eduardo Gian- netti Da Fonseca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 256 pp. How important are the ideas created by economists...

...Alfred F. Chalk Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Mr. Chalk is Professor of Economics at Texas A & M. University. Concepts of Change and the Role of Predictability in Economics Alfred F. Chalk In sum, we have...

... decades, overlooks Schumpeter’s wide- ranging contribution, which can only be grasped as an attempt at economic sociology that challenges the relationship between “economic development and institutional change.” Thus we see the crucial message in the subtitle of this volume. As Richard Swedberg (1991...

...Neil de Marchi; Peter Dohlman League of Nations Economists and the Ideal of Peaceful Change in the Decade of the 'Thirties Neil de Marchi, with the collaboration ofPeter Dohlman In June and July 1933 a World Economic Conference was held in Lon- don to seek ways of correcting the prevailing...

..., 1919-1939 . New York: Oxford University Press. Marschak, J. 1946 . The Economic Aspects of Atomic Power. Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 2.5-6 : 8 -9. May, K. 1946 . The Aggregation Problem for a One-Industry Model. Econometrica 14 (October): 285 -98. ____. 1947 . Technological Change...

...Robert S. Goldfarb; H. O. Stekler Duke University Press 2000 Alexander, Sidney. 1958 . Rate of Change Approaches to Forecasting. The Economic Journal 68.270 : 288 -301. Backhouse, Roger. 1997 . Truth and Progress in Economic Thought . Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar...

.... Aberdeen. Eltis , W. 1984 . The Classical Theory of Economic Growth . London. Heertje , A. [1973] 1977 . Economics and Technical Change . English translation. London. Hollander , S. 1987 . Classical Economics . Oxford. James , R. W. 1965 . John Rae, Political...

... Growth, Stagnation, and Structural Change: New Light on a 55-Year Controversy William Guthrie and Vincent J. Tarascio One unresolved controversy in the history of economic thought is the debate over a crucial, implicit premise of Keynes’s General The- ory, namely: does...

... by sociological and economic scholars interested in structural changes. As high-level advisor for various French governments and a bestselling author, Fourastié remained at the margin of the economic profession. However, an important legacy is the concept of cost disease developed by William Baumol, which is one...

...Giuseppe Freni; Neri Salvadori; Rodolfo Signorino Malthus’s main economic argument against free corn trade in his Essay on Population concerned the issue of structural change triggered by international trade. Malthus claimed that, in the long run, agricultural countries will develop their domestic...

.... . 1961 . International Trade and U.S. Economic Development 1827–1843. Journal of Economic History 21 . 3 : 372 -83. Williamson , Jeffrey G. . 1963 . Real Growth, Monetary Disturbances, and the Transfer Process: The U.S., 1879–1900. Southern Economic Journal 29 . 3 : 167 -80. Changing...

... of the Concept of Empathy. In Empathy and Its Development , edited by Nancy Eisenberg and Janet Strayer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1991 . The Psychology of Sympathy . New York: Plenum Press. The Changing Place of Empathy in Welfare Economics Philippe Fontaine It is somewhat...

.... University of Notre Dame DAVIDF. RUCCIO Changing perceptions of economic policy. Edited by Frances Cairncross. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. Pp. xii, 276. $25 .OO The literature on the formation of economic policy tends to be dominated by two types-works...