.... 1990 . Invention in the Face of Necessity: Marshallian Rhetoric and the Giffen Good(s). The Economic Record 66 : 1 -11. The Course of Marshall’s Theorizing about Demand John Aldrich Introduction One way of reading Marshall on demand, especially the teasingly elusive book 3...

... by Duke University Press Schumpeter’s 1947 course in the History of Economic Thought Charles E. Staley Professor Edward Ames, who has kept his Harvard Graduate School lec- ture notes, recently loaned me the 41 pages of notes he took in Economics I I 3b, Joseph Schumpeter’s History...

... Hauptmanuskripts zum dritten Buch des Kapital. MEGA-Studien , no.2: 3 -55. “Zirkel vicieux” or Trend Fall? The Course of the Profit Rate in Marx’s Capital III Geert Reuten Karl Marx’s theory of “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall” is one of the most controversial parts of his scientific...

...Avi J. Cohen The History of Economics: A Course for Students and Teachers . By Backhouse Roger E. Tribe Keith . Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing , 2018 . xiii ; 386 pp. $30.00 . Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Book Reviews 797 George, Francesco...

...Irwin L. Collier This paper is concerned with the practical side of establishing a continuous and broad historical record of what has been taught to whom by whom as well as when and where. The archival experience of the author has been that course syllabi and exams appear to be the historical...

... the first program in advanced mathematical and statistical economics at the more local level of Cambridge and Harvard. Wilson offered two courses to economists, mathematical economics and mathematical statistics, in which he respectively taught Gibbs’s thermodynamics systems and numerical mathematics...

... expressed as the preoccupation of Catholic intellectuals and politicians with the novelty of “modern” phenomena. It was a continuation but, of course, a renewed one. This essay—mainly dealing with Vito; Giuseppe Toniolo (1845–1918), one of Vito's key mentors; and Luigi L. Pasinetti (b. 1930), one of Vito's...

... housewives) and the reliability of their testimony. Investigators recognized that both dependencies posed serious problems, and they struggled to devise effective solutions. I argue that over the course of the twentieth century, the methodology of US expenditure surveys evolved in a nonteleological way...

...Susan Howson It is hard to think of a more committed public intellectual in Britain in the twentieth century than Lionel Robbins—except, of course, John Maynard Keynes. For six decades Robbins engaged in public debate on economic policy issues in lectures and talks, contributions to newspapers...

...Lina Weber Dugald Stewart’s contribution to the formation of political economy as a science in the early nineteenth century is ambiguous. The professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh was the first academic to teach an independent course on political economy. However, scholars...

..., exemplified by the French translation by Garnier ( 1802 ), Jean-Baptiste Say's Traité (1803), and of course David Ricardo's Principles (1817). Political economists of the early nineteenth century disregarded most of those features of The Wealth of Nations that have since the later 1970s been reemphasized...

... of public finance as a distinct field within economics. This includes examination of the subject’s definition, its boundaries, and the types of analyses undertaken. Academic training, including courses and readings, at Columbia, Chicago, Harvard, and Wisconsin is compared. Correspondence may...

... the outset his goal had been to secure the survival of the school in Vienna’s increasingly hostile academic environment, in the course of time he invested most of his energies not in his scientific work but in unending conflicts in the realm of academic politics. Thus for Mayer the school’s defense became...

... a significant stage in the transition of economics at MIT from being a department focused exclusively on providing courses for engineers and scientists to one that was to become a major location for research in economics. Through examination of papers held in the Rockefeller archives it documents...

... that are inevitably embedded. These differences notwithstanding, economists and sociologists converged on a definition of commitment as the closing off of particular courses of action and the maintenance of consistent behavior over time, intentionally or unintentionally. As they conceptualized commitment, Thomas...

... on economic policy; and we reject Numa’s claims that Dupuit advocated state control of railroads as the optimal course of action. Correspondence may be addressed to Robert B. Ekelund Jr., 404 Blake Street, Auburn, AL 36830 (e-mail: [email protected] ); and to Robert F. Hébert, 998 Stanford Avenue...

...Kepa Ormazabal The main goal of this article is to identify and critically examine the foundations of the monetary theories to which Lowndes and Locke appealed during their debate around the Great Recoinage of 1696. In the course of the investigation I came by the critical commentaries of Sir James...

...- grams require HET as part of their core curriculum, and a relatively limited number of programs offer field courses (or even electives) in HET. The virtual absence of HET within the Ph.D. core and field cur- riculum should come as little surprise, as a downward trend in interest in doctoral-level HET...

... approaches. This collection of essays, edited by Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia of Queen Mary University in London, proposes one approach the contributors have all found successful at remedying some of these challenges: incorporating historical economic ideas into core contemporary economics courses...

... at Stanford University, Milton Friedman collection, used with permission of Milton Friedman. ____. 1940 . Lecture notes for Economics 176, a course on business cycles , taught by Friedman at the University of Wisconsin, fall semester. In the Hoover Institution archives at Stanford University, Milton...