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...David Gindis; Steven G. Medema [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 In 1965, Henry Manne convinced the Association of American Law Schools and the American Economic Association to establish an ad hoc joint committee...

... competencies in the faculty and students practicing a social scientific discipline. During the same period, the Committee on Social Thought emerged as an academic interdisciplinary unit in the humanities and social sciences. Ironically, the committee became the place in which one honed the competencies...

... Committee (TECO) operated to provide knowledge and expertise to “intermediate development” Mediterranean countries. TECO, through a network of experts, concentrated and disseminated data, ideas, and economic policy practices to promote the “modernization” of countries not fully integrated...

...Tiago Mata In the 1960s and 1970s, the social science associations (anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and history) were faced by a string of academic freedom controversies. I review debates at association meetings and the reports and policy statements of committees on ethics...

... benefits had accrued primarily to the nation’s elite. Triggered by sharp public and parliamentary criticisms of Nehru’s ambitious, top-down economic planning regime, the committee was the first expert body to examine changes in the distribution of economic opportunities and rewards in postcolonial India. P...

... of committee members, both published and from archives, the paper examines how the committee managed to reconcile very divergent economic views to produce a unanimous report. These basic matters of political economy are as germane today as they were nearly sixty years ago. Indeed, probably more so...

...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...

.... Thornton stressed the discretionary role the Bank played in managing the monetary system under both currency regimes. After 1802 and particularly as a member of the famous Bullion Committee, Thornton played an important role on the side of the Bullionists; later scholars therefore describe him...

... this policy—an issue that affected millions of passengers annually. Caltech economists and experimentalists David Grether, Mark Isaac, and Charles Plott were hired by the Civil Aviation Board to study the existing slot scheduling committees that used unanimity voting rule as well as alternative slot...

..., it was reinterpreted and incorporated into the fiscal program of the American political coalition supporting the New Deal, especially by the Committee for Economic Development. In the 1960s, Keynesian economists associated with the Kennedy and Johnson administrations reformulated yet again the notion. Drawing...

... with William Wilberforce to assemble the “Clapham sect.” This group of evangelical Christians pressed the cause of Christ in all manner of venues, most prominently in seeking to end the slave trade and in working to repatriate freed slaves to Africa. Thornton served on numerous committees working...

... Committee (FOMC) while expressing both in public pronouncements in speeches and in print. Despite possible dissonance, the presidents were able to integrate information emerging from their district constituents with the overall state of the national economy in their input to the FOMC, while explaining...

... for Radical Political Economics and the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, along with the role played by the sessions organized during the ASSA conferences; the tension between the different methodologies used by feminist economists; and the tension surrounding the place of feminist...

... on the BIS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision engaged in implementation rationality through simulation in the form of the Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP). The examination of iterative modeling and solving for rules of action at the LSL and in the RCAP suggests that the explicit...

... theory of market failure in which depression stemmed from the failure of the financial machine to translate saving into investment. The article explores how these two views of market failure came together in the proceedings of the Temporary National Economic Committee, arguing that the ideas about...

...Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche; Beatrice Cherrier; John D. Singleton Abstract This article examines the first gender reckoning in economics, focusing on the establishment and early activities of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). Drawing on materials...

..., 45th Report (1948-50), 46rh Reporr (1950-52). The dates are omitted in the in-text citations. 58 History of Political Economy 29: 1 (1997) Scovill was named chair of the search committee, which considered about a hundred people, including Scovill, who had considerable support as well...

... Journal 4 : 275 -318. Joplin, T. 1828 . Views on the Corn Bill of 1827, and Other Measures of Government . London:Ridgway. ____. 1832 . An Analysis and History of the Currency Question . London: Ridgway. ____. 1833 . A Digest of the Evidence on the Bank Charter Taken before the Committee...

... and New York: de Gruyter. Peden , G. 1993 . Modernisation in the 1950s: The British Experience. In Modernisierung im Wiederaufbau: Die Westdeutsche Gesellschaft in der 50er Jahre . Edited by A. Schudt and A. Sywottek. Bonn: Dietz Naahf. PRO 1952a . CAB 134/845 Economic Policy Committee...

... rates and dampened inflationary pres- 3. Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, May I 3, I 948, p. 93. 4. Ibid. 101. 5. Allan Sproul, “Monetary management and credit control,” Americun Economic Re- view, Dec. 1946, p. 347. 6. Allan Sproul, “Inflation control...