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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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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
... Capital Theory to Explain Sex Segregation. Journal of Human Resources 18 : 358 -70. England , Paula. 1992 . Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence . New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Esser , Hartmut. 1993 . The Rationality of Everyday Behavior. Rationality and Society 5 . 1 ( January...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 259–282.
Published: 01 December 2022
... for Equal Work .” Economic Journal 32 , no. 128 : 431 . https://doi.org/10.2307/2223426 . England , Paula . 1992 . Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence . New York : Routledge . England , Paula . 2001 . “ Gender and Feminist Studies .” In International Encyclopedia...
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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...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (4): 709–740.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Choice Behaviour .” Unpublished manuscript , 2016 . Word file . The Temperature of the Brain: Edgeworth s Thermodynamic Analogies of Utility Measurement Thomas Michael Mueller My purpose is to retrace the intellectual struggle of Francis Ysidro Edge- worth, to understand the concept of utility...
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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...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (2): 269–281.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., Richard. 1726 . The money'd man's guide: or, the purchaser's pocket-companion. Shewing, at sight, what interest is made by money laid out in the companies stocks, or any other publick funds;and also the present value of any yearly income. With the easiest method to cast up the present worth of lands...
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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...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (2): 379–383.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Hume and Smith, and to show how accumulation allows Smith to avoid the blind alley of “greed.” By the way, it is worth noting that WN 's book II is generally underread by economists or read at most having in view chapter II, on money and paper money, and chapter III, on productive and unproductive...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...