... the economy. A journalism bubble accompanied the market bubble of the first part of the decade, one that failed to examine prevailing wisdom, discounted dissent, and produced little independent analysis. What have we learned since? Roundtable Presentation When a Crisis in Journalism Meets an Economy...

... corrective to academic and intellec- tual complacency. University of Nottingham and Duke University A. W. COATS The people’s science: the popular political economy of exploitation and crisis 1816-34. By Noel W. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. 252...

...Antoine Missemer [email protected] Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis . By Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2023 . 304 pp. $35.00 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University...

... exception: in response to what he considered was a mounting threat to economic stability caused by the high level of railway investment James Wilson published a series of articles in the Economist between 1845 and 1847 in which he predicted an imminent economic crisis.* Wilson had...

...Philip Mirowski; Edward Nik-Khah We explore recent arguments that economists may not serve to enlighten their publics so much as foster surplus confusion and doubt concerning controversies in their areas of expertise, particularly with regard to the recent worldwide economic crisis. After...

... Beyond the Crisis. Edited by Norman Birnbaum. London, Oxford, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. 232. Hard cover, $1 1.95; paper- back, $3.95. This is a collection of six essays by sociologist-philosophers from both eastern and western Europe and the United States. All...

... , Shigeto . “Keynes vs. Marx: The Methodology of Aggregates.” In Post-Keynesian Economics , edited by Kenneth Kurihara. New Brunswick, N.J., 1954 . Is Marxian Growth Crisis-Ridden? Shlomo Maital The true intellectual challenge to an economist is to make sense...

.... and as Calvin Coolidge described 3 minister's sermon to his wife Grace. "he was agin it." Capitalism. comperitiatt arid economic crisis can provide the student with chal- lenging alternative perspectives to what may be a usual course routine. The bricf and breezy handling of leading paradigms...

...Brian P. Cooper Abstract This article focuses on work published by British travelers to Chile and Rio de la Plata who inspected mining association holdings in the region in the wake of the financial crisis of 1825–26. The travelers sought to determine whether it proved prudent to continue to direct...

...Benjamin Kohlmann This article argues that in the 1870s philosophical, economic, and literary ideas converged on a shared problematic: the perceived crisis of laissez-faire and the emergence of new arguments in favor of state intervention in the economy. George Eliot's last novel, Daniel Deronda...

... of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ROYALLBRANDIS Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan. By Makoto Itoh. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1980. Pp. 192. $13.50. Six chapters make up Professor Itoh’s offering. Three of these (in my opin- ion, the better half) deal...

... University LEWISE. HILL The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority. By Thomas L. Haskell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 276. No price stated...

... shook the political stability, social order, and economic certainty that had characterized the Chilean model for thirty years. Further, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic triggered a triple crisis—socioeconomic, political, and medical—that raised serious questions as to the market model's ability to guarantee...

.... The crisis of structuralism in the latter 1960s, following the exhaustion of “easy” import substitution, ultimately resulted in “neostructuralism” in 1990, a reformed version of the doctrine that emphasized greater equity in income distribution, expansion of export markets, aggressive pursuit...

... into the economic realm, though the major impact came via his influence on A. C. Pigou, whose welfare analysis was very much a restatement of the Sidgwickian view, but undertaken with Marshallian analytical underpinnings. This article discusses Sidgwick's crisis of faith and his subsequent attempt to devise...

... of economists, that is, the encounters between economists and their publics. In the volume we constrain ourselves to the long twentieth century in the United States and the United Kingdom, fenced at one end by the Progressive Era and Fabianism and the ongoing economic crisis at the other. Economists...

... of the quite peculiar economic discourses on pilgrimages, balance-of-payment deficits, and indulgences that were prominent in the early 1520s in the German lands. Martin Luther picked up directly on the economic situation and economic discourses of his day, which were marked by crisis and depression. Debates...

... disciplinary field of development economics and the hegemonic shift between Britain and the United States in the central decades of the twentieth century. Finally, it describes the crisis of the discipline between the 1960s and 1970s. Correspondence may be addressed to Michele Alacevich: michele.alacevich...

... recognition of the tendencies toward overproduction that threatened economic crisis, all contributed to shaping key ideas and themes of Karl Marx's Capital Volumes I and II, leaving a lasting imprint on Marxist political economy. Correspondence may be addressed to Tiago Mata, UCL Department of Science...

..., including the marketability of quasi-experimental methods and the 1980s crisis in econometrics. Correspondence may be addressed to Matthew T. Panhans, Duke University, Department of Economics, 213 Social Sciences, Campus Box 90097, Durham NC 27708; e-mail: [email protected] John D. Singleton...