... , A. 1991 . Economic Growth and Technical Change: John Rae's Critique of Adam Smith. HOPE 23 . 1 : 1 -12. Brewer , A. 1995 . The Concept of Growth in Eighteenth-Century Economics. HOPE 27 . 4 : 609 -38. Brewer , A. 1997 . An Eighteenth Century View of Economic Development: Hume...

...Anthony Brewer Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics . By Samuels Warren J. ., with the assistance of Johnson Marianne F. Perry William H. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . xxviii; 329 pp. Hardback $95.00...

... be characterized as Cournotian. Robert Solow s Non-Walrasian Conception of Economics Matthieu Ballandonne and Goulven Rubin I could define macroeconomics as non-Walrasian economics. . . . Perhaps it would be enough to define macroeconomics as applied or at least applicable non-Walrasian economics. Robert Solow...

... The Concept of Applied Economics On the Concept of Applied Economics: Lessons from Cambridge Economics and the History of Growth Theories Flavio Comim This article examines one important episode in the history of applied economics—the history of growth theories—in order to illustrate...

...A. W. Coats Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Adam Smith‘s conception of self-interest in economic and political affairs A. W. Coats In a stimulating recent paper, George Stigler commented on the apparent inconsistency between Adam Smith’s emphasis...

... -72. The Concept of Applied Economics: A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle The Concept of Applied Economics Historically Considered The idea of “applied” economics, that is, the notion that there is a class of activities engaged...

...Ephraim Kleiman History of Political Economy I9:2 0 1987 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/87/$1.50 Opportunity cost, human capital, and some related economic concepts...

... of Concentration of Economic Power: Monograph 12, Profits, Productive Activities, and New Investment . Washington, D.C. : US Government Printing Office . Economic Power and the Financial Machine: Competing Conceptions of Market Failure in the Great Depression Roger E. Backhouse Prior...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Edited by S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. Leiden: Brill , 1998 . 611 pp . 2000 HOPE 32.2-08.BookReviews 5/10/00 12:42 PM Page 404 404 Book Reviews Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice...

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

...Anthony Brewer A. A. Brewer, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, 8 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TN, England ( A.Brewer@bris.ac.uk ). I am grateful to Mark Blaug, Walter Eltis, Geoffrey Harcourt, and Denis O'Brien, and to participants in the History of Economic Thought Conference...

...Philip Mirowski Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. His books include More Heat than Light (1989), Against Mechanism (1988), and an edited volume, Natural Images in Economics: Markets Read...

... 32.2-07.Burkett 5/10/00 12:41 PM Page 381 Marx’s Concept of an Economic Law of Motion John P. Burkett Karl Marx’s ultimate aim in Capital ([1867] 1965, 10) is “to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society.” A reader...

... be explained by distinguishing between their distinct conceptions of economics—economics as statecraft, as science, and as a discipline characterized by its practical pluralism—concerning travelers' ideas of solving China's practical economic problems in different periods. Since a priori knowledge is likened...

... activities and, more generally, their conceptions of economics. Correspondence may be addressed to Virginie Gouverneur, BETA, Office No. 151, Pôle européen de gestion et d’économie, Université de Strasbourg, 61 avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France; email: virginie.gouverneur@uha.fr...

... epistemological commitments shape their different readings of historical concepts and texts. The discussion within this article represents a specific contribution to the contemporary revisionist Smithian literature. The contemporary revisionists are historians of economic thought occupied by the question...

...—managerial and market capitalism, respectively—which arose from differing conceptions of how a modern, industrialized economy functioned, and which evolved with the shifting vocational opportunities presented by recurring crisis. Different visions of the state's role in economic life, in turn, implied...

... principles and concepts, his familiarity with market economics, and his views on the role of theory in ethnographic economics. Malinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy over Economics in Anthropology Scott Cook and Michael W. Young From its inception, knowledge production in economic...

... was that the notion of equilibrium played a significant role in Nikolai Bucharin’s economic writ- ings that suggested a peaceful coexistence and convergence of various economic forms instead of the familiar emphasis on class conflict. This gave the very concept a certain seditious flavor (see a more detailed...

... illustrates how Fisher, as a mathematical economist, privileged a universalist conception of science, while Mitchell, as an institutionalist, understood economics as a contextual and historical discipline, and it illustrates how these preconceptions spilled over to their debates on index numbers...