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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to account for its sources. The comparable worth movement of the 1980s explicitly argued that the wage gap resulted from occupational segregation and the devaluation of women's work. As that movement faltered in the late 1980s, the gender wage gap became increasingly understood through the lens of women's...
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in Controlling for What? Movements, Measures, and Meanings in the US Gender Wage Gap Debate
> History of Political Economy
Published: 01 December 2022
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 193–220.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . “ Business and Occupational Crowding: Implications for Female Entrepreneurship Development and Success “ In Women's Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar . Aldrich , Mark , and Robert B. Buchele . 1986 . The Economics of Comparable Worth . Cambridge...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (2): 219–244.
Published: 01 June 1996
... Understanding. Edited by Israel M. Kirzner. New
York: New York University Press.
England, Paula. 1982. The Failure of Human Capital Theory to Explain Sex Segre-
gation. Journal of Human Resources 18:358-70.
. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York Aldine de
Gruyter...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (2): 315–344.
Published: 01 June 2001
... someone has recognized that the fruit has
use value and has understood that it would take an hour of labor to obtain
it, he formulates the judgment that the fruit is worth the pain of labor-
ing to be acquired. Utility is compared with cost: this judgment is about
whether the utility to be gained...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (2): 165–178.
Published: 01 June 1989
... (19 19) had been. Yet he (1954, 1 101) placed Cassel among
the “front-rank economists” of his time and compared him with Fisher.
2. The book
Cassel’s Theoretische Sozialokonomie was our last attempt to review in
one piece and at an advanced level,,as Mill, Marshall, Walras, and Pareto
had...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (2): 337–343.
Published: 01 June 1978
....
Another comparison is between the cost of microfilm and that of a compu-
ter. Not much of a computer can be had for $45,000. But access to a great
many rare books can be. One may go a step further and compare the annual
cost of the two. If we assume a university can borrow over the long term at 6...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 259–282.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence . New York : Routledge . England , Paula . 2001 . “ Gender and Feminist Studies .” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences , edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes , 4 : 5910 – 15 . London : Elsevier...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 711–722.
Published: 01 November 2005
..., 482 n)
inserts a footnote that says comparing profits at home with profits abroad
“distracts considerably from the worth of the statement.” Chipman also
points out that in the third edition of Torrens’s essay, the phrase “excess
of profit” is replaced with “excess of produce,” which shows...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 504–521.
Published: 01 November 1977
...’ of production where
these are weighted by the social estimate of the ‘worth’ of the
lab ore For each occupation in the economy, society establishes a
relative ranking-for example, that a builder is “worth’’ twice as
much as a cobbler. This relative ranking, in conjunction with tech-
nological data...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (4): 709–740.
Published: 01 August 2020
... purpose is to retrace the intellectual struggle of Francis Ysidro Edge- worth, to understand the concept of utility and its measurement, from his first insights in Mathematical Psychics (1881) to his later views of 1922, thus explicating his particular ideas on the topic and their role in the pro...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (1): 173–176.
Published: 01 March 1995
.... Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 4 . 3 : 337 -69. McCloskey , D. N. 1985 . The Rhetoric of Economics . Madison: University of Wisconson Press. North , D. C. 1986 . Is It Worth Making Sense of Marx? Inquiry 29 : 57 -16. North , D. C. 1990 . Institutions...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (2): 293–307.
Published: 01 June 2005
... of Political Economy 37:2 (2005)
Lieben’s Untersuchungen attracted very few readers during the first sev-
eral decades after its publication, he does point out that Francis Edge-
worth both read it and held it in high esteem.
This essay builds on Schmidt’s by showing that Edgeworth did not
just read...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (2): 269–281.
Published: 01 June 2001
... to
the price of the stock, because the purchaser is supposed to compare that
rate with the profits he might make of money, if otherwise employed.”5
Similarly the author of An argument (1720, 19) chastises stockholders
for not recognizing the intrinsic value: “They are all in Haste to sell out,
at more than...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (4): 565–581.
Published: 01 November 1988
... is to compare the Bohm-Bawerk and
the herman-Wicksell models. We shall set them out in the simplest mod-
ern forms which will rigorously deliver their respective conclusions. We
shall use the following notation.
Variables
a, = labor absorbed in constructing one physical unit of producers...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (2): 267–268.
Published: 01 June 1972
... a significant influence on the course of economic
science in the ensuing century. But was this episode really an exception
to the apparent continuity in the development of economics 1 Were
the pioneer marginalists sullicienkly united in purpose and comparable
in performance to justify us...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 291–292.
Published: 01 June 1980
... History of Political Economy 12:2 (1980)
While Part I1 of this work flows rather smoothly, it is, I believe, based upon
an implicit assumption, namely that the reader has a good working knowledge
of the theory of comparative advantage, the theory of factor-price equalization,
and to a certain...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (5): 799–832.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., it was still the foundational one. 3.2. The Cab-Horse and the Thoroughbred : Back to Foundational Differences After carefully specifying two opposite misconceptionsthe one exag- gerating the comparative efficiency of men, the other that of women (Edge- worth 1922a: 442), Edgeworth developed several reasons...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 234–242.
Published: 01 June 1980
... by not having it. In such a case the
estimation of the just price will have to take into account not
merely the commodity to be sold but also the loss which the seller
incurs in selling it. The commodity can here be sold for more than
it is worth in itself though not for more than...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 1975
...) there is a
“socially determined” ranking so that if, let us say, a builder is “worth”
or “esteemed” or “needs” twice as much as a cobbler, then, on the
average over a period of time, the value created by the builder must be
twice the value created by the cobbler. If on the average the builder...
