... of Public Policy, Duke University, Box 90241, Durham, NC 27708-0241; e-mail: phil.bennett@duke.edu . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Roundtable Presentation When a Crisis in Journalism Meets an Economy in Crisis Philip Bennett When journalists and economists gather these days...

... 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...

...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...

... in the Economist between 1845 and 1847 in which he predicted an imminent economic crisis.* Wilson had published earlier works on fluctuation In 1839 he sought to explain fluctuations in grain supply and prices in terms of output in earlier years, developing an early version of the modem cobweb...

... sin of the media. To him. most of what has been transniitted by the media since World War I1 is equivalent to sin. 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...Shlomo Maital Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Mr. Maital is Lecturer in Economics at Tel-Aviv University. Is Marxian Growth Crisis-Ridden? Shlomo Maital The true intellectual challenge to an economist is to make sense of Marx...

...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...

...George S. Tavlas During the early 1930s University of Chicago economists developed a comprehensive set of policy proposals that presaged those proposed by Fed economists and academics in the aftermath of the 2007–8 financial crisis. Using the quantity-theory framework to analyze the business cycle...

... 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...

.... 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...

... and unconvincing. Therefore, it is crucial to understand that it was in the aftermath of the political and economic crisis of the Thirty Years’ War that happiness was established at the core of the foundations of Spanish Imperialism in the 1650s and then again in the 1760s. The text Signs of Happiness by Francesc...

..., 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: mpanhans@gmail.com John D. Singleton...

... of development economics theories involved learning in the field and developing new analyses and concepts out of this experience, not just taking ideas from other fields and applying them in a different context. During the 1950s the discipline prospered but, by the 1960s, it faced a crisis, for it came...

...” research into policy, then it should be evidenced in policy histories that can then serve as a model for influencing reform. The agricultural crisis that followed the First World War serves as an excellent case study through which I explore the role of agricultural economists in the policymaking process...

... 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...

... 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...