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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (2): 313–345.
Published: 01 April 2021
... the surrounding political and polemical context of its writing and publication. Our article contributes to recent scholarship on the history of the complex relationships between conservatism and free-market ideas. It also provides a case study in the history of economic thought on discrimination and minorities...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 March 1982
...- not get a revision of the laws of human life.”5 The core of this higher law, ac- cording to Rossiter in his classic review of “laissez-faire conservatism,” the socioeconomic philosophy which “rose to prominence between 1865 and 1885, to ascendancy between 1885 and 1920, to domination-to virtual...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (5): 951–954.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the accumulated wisdom of the ages, and therefore the best guide to an uncertain future. Given that humans are risk-averse and their cognitive powers and knowledge limited, the status quo is not to be squandered away in pursuit of some ideal society. Conservatism gives priority to the whole over the parts...
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History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (3): 460–463.
Published: 01 September 1980
... must never be subordinated to the interests of a political party. In these days the workers’ attitude was described as a mixture of innate conservatism and rugged individualism, together with an antipathy to planning. “The character of postwar trade unionism . . . reinforces the extreme...
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (4): 639–646.
Published: 01 November 1987
... commandments, a knowl- edge of which is requisite for an understanding of his social philosophy and particularly his penchant for conservatism. Knight’s commandments might, in a certain sense, perhaps have been offered as counterpoints to that more famous set of commandments. One of the prominent...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 June 1990
...) Political Economy from the Top [President of the College] Down (Brown) A Quest for National Leadership (Harvard) Academic Conservatism (Yale) From Recitation Room to Research Seminar (Columbia) The Flagship of Postgraduate Studies (Johns Hopkins) The Business Community and Academic...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 408–409.
Published: 01 June 1990
... Book Reviews 409 to economic analysis (“government regulation of economic life-and the re- ciprocal regulation of government by economic groups,” p. 108); affirming economic conservatism; and, above all, lauding the Chicago School. Also pres- ent are accounts of his early years...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (1): 15–44.
Published: 01 March 2006
... principle. It offered a superior moral principle that could determine the limits and exceptions to other principles. The utilitarian principle would also overcome a major problem with intu- itionism: its inherent conservatism and support for the status quo. Sidg- wick also argued that utilitarianism...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (4): 762–764.
Published: 01 November 1990
... at Chicago). His interests were very broad; they evolved from the problem of black poverty in the 1920s to race and class, then to institutional economics, on to Marx, and finally to John Stuart Mill. The movements from Howard to Chicago and from Marx to Mill suggest an increasing conservatism, which...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (4): 764–767.
Published: 01 November 1990
... to John Stuart Mill. The movements from Howard to Chicago and from Marx to Mill suggest an increasing conservatism, which is true although he certainly did not become a Friedmanite Chicago economist. His perspective on the black problem was that it was not exclusively racial; rather he...
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History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (1): 155–164.
Published: 01 March 1994
...: It is easy to imagine Keynes [the Liberal] at home, or as at home as he would ever be, in the Conservative Party of Macmillan and But- ler-both of whom became personal friends, unlike any Labour leaders. He admired Conservatism’s elitism: “the inner ring of the party can almost dictate...
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History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 814–816.
Published: 01 November 2002
... suggests that the lack of any permanent and satisfying sexual re- lationship, along with Robertson’s loss of religious faith, led to personal insecurity, an innate pessimism and conservatism, and a reliance on references to traditions and even to a mythical golden past. Perhaps. But Fletcher then has...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (4): 710–712.
Published: 01 November 1996
... tradition in the United States-modem conservatism. Thus the “Liberal Resurgence” takes account of the influence of Milton Friedman and the Chicago school, the development of monetarism and supply-side economics, and even follows through the Keynesian backlash. “New Macroeconomics” reviews...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 1990
...: Early Flowering in the Old Dominion Faithful Index to the Ambitions and Fortunes of the State (South Carolina) Political Economy from the Top [President of the College] Down (Brown) A Quest for National Leadership (Harvard) Academic Conservatism (Yale) From Recitation Room...
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History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 March 1979
... by order, to change and development by stability, and to initiative and self-expression by a misguided egalitarianism which mistakes identity and conformity for equality. In contrast to much of what passes for “conservatism” these days, the interest groups associated with our corporate...
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History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 811–814.
Published: 01 November 2002
... suggests that the lack of any permanent and satisfying sexual re- lationship, along with Robertson’s loss of religious faith, led to personal insecurity, an innate pessimism and conservatism, and a reliance on references to traditions and even to a mythical golden past. Perhaps. But Fletcher then has...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 1–5.
Published: 01 December 1995
... with the predilections of postwar British conservatism. It rationalized the neglect of industrial policy-a neglect that Tomlinson suggests must bear part of the blame for Britain’s relative economic decline in this period. Special thanks are due to Roy Weintraub, who first suggested the con- ference to us...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 177–181.
Published: 01 December 1995
... that sex is a professionally taboo subject for economists and historians of economics. At least part of this is due to the seemingly inherent social conservatism of the discipline. Also, legitimately, it is often suggested that such per- sonal issues are irrelevant to the scientific validity...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (Supplement): 357–363.
Published: 01 December 1996
... enterprises to be efficient. Still another expla- nation is the fiscal and economic conservatism and antistatism ideology that has taken hold since Margaret Thatcher came into office in 1979 and Ronald Reagan in 198 1. The international economic organizations have also had a role, as conditionality...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 370–374.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to Harvard, like his three brothers, and inherited his father's religious sensibility but not his political conservatism. We are told little about Gregg's time at Harvard, but he eventually graduated from its law school in 1911, emerging into the Progressive Era, with its great social upheaval...