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...- sively) Hayek’s time in Britain. Caldwell is also able to counter some of the standard left criticisms of Hayek that seem to require him to prove the unprovable—a social optimum—rather than merely to argue in terms of comparison between alternative systems. Because of the nature of the book, its...

...Jeffrey T. Young Adam Smith in Context: A Critical Reassessment of Some Central Components of His Thought. By Leonidas Montes. Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii; 186 pp. Cloth $69.95. 2006 Smith, Adam. [1776] 1976 . An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth...

... the background to many of his texts. For example, Henry Sidgwick, one of the key fi gures in philosophical ethics, should play a much more signifi cant role, something Bruni almost acknowledges in the single footnote where he is mentioned. But criticizing the book for paying insuffi cient attention...

.... Faccarello. Paris: Editions La Découverte. Bleaney , Michael . 1976 . Underconsumption Theories: A History and Critical Analysis . New York: International Publishers. Cardoso , José Luís 1995 . Introduction to Constâncio 1995. Constâncio , Francisco S. 1820a . Principes...

... Critical Economic Methodology: A Personal Odyssey. By Lawrence A. Boland. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, xi; 307 pp. $65.00. Some readers may be surprised by the tone of this recent collection of Boland’s methodological writings. One is told baldly...

..., and the seminar participants of the 2009 History of Economics Society meeting for helpful questions, discussions, and suggestions. Furthermore, the present version has been immensely improved by the critical comments of two anonymous referees. I would like to thank the archive team of the King's College Modern...

... from the sidelines to the frontlines of American political and economic life. First, the cost of living developed into a critical topic in democratic politics and industrial relations, as inflation accelerated at the turn of the century. Second, the federal government came to be viewed...

...Peter F. Bell E. K. Hunt. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1979. Pp. 478. $14.95. Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOK REVIEWS History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective. By E. K. Hunt. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co...

.... Utiiversit~of lllitiois ut Urbanu-Ciiampciign ROYALLBRANDIS The mukirig of' Murx's critical rlieoty: a bibliographical miulysis. By Allen Oakley. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. 143. $8.95. In this tightly constructed. and admirably brief. work. Allen Oaklcy tells "all you...

...Martin Bronfenbrenner Anthony Brewer. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. xi, 300 pp. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews Mamist Theories of Imperialism, a Critical Survey, 2d ed. By Anthony Brewer. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. xi, 300 pp...

... discovering a Punch and Judy show in Tottenham Court Road. William Coleman, University of Tasmania Schumpeter’s Theory of Capitalist Motion: A Critical Exposition and Reas- sessment. By Allen Oakley. Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vt.: Edward El- gar, 1990. 256...

... assessment that our insistence on viewing eco- nomics as a separate science constitutes an important barrier to progress speaks to this point. Boland pays some attention to macroeconomics, but this is primarily in the context of examining Keynes’s criticism of neoclassical economics. It is ironic...

...Amedeo Fossati On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgments in Economic Sciences: Critical Edition . Edited by Silvestri Paolo . London : Routledge , 2017 . 155 ; $170.00 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Einaudi Luigi . 1938...

... on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands In an earlier paper (Hands 1992) I argued that while there is much to be said in favor of Mirowski’s central thesis in More Heat than Light, there are some questions raised...

... into a Marshallian Economist: A Critical Review of Donald Walker's Walras's Market Models. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 21.4 : 413 –35. ———. 2002 . Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Walrasian and Neo-Walrasian Economics. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24 : 405 –26. ———. 2003...

... in perspective: a critical history. By John Kenneth Galbraith. Bos- ton: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 324 pp. $19.45. This is an ambitious, but mainly unsuccessful, attempt to blend the history of economic thought and economic history. Galbraith’s stand on the relationship between the two is clear...

... Reviews Keynes: A Critical Life. By David Felix. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1999. xvii; 344 pp. $69.95. Any new biography of Maynard Keynes must have a special hook. Recently, we have had Donald Moggridge’s nuanced treatment of Keynes’s life in the policy arena; we have had Robert Skidelsky’s...

.... Mimeo. Raby,Peter. 2001. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. Princeton,N.J.: Princeton Univer- sity Press. The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays. Edited by Michalis Psalidopoulos. London: Routledge,2000. xvi; 224 pp. £55.00. Do economists know what they should know from the past...

... analysis to go unchallenged, making theology “a second-order discourse that utilizes critical modes of rationality to render praxis in- telligible” (154). The thing Long likesbest about thisgroup isitsrefusal to accept the “absurd” classical economic doctrine of scarcity; instead, these theologians...

...Avi J. Cohen Edited by Heinz D. Kurz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv;458 pp. $120.00. 2003 Bharadwaj, Krishna, and Bertram Schefold, eds. 1990 . Essays on Piero Sraffa: Critical Perspectives on the Revival of Classical Theory . London: Unwin Hyman. 164 Book...