...: Economic and Aesthetic Man. Victorian Studies 36 . 2 : 125 -53. Geddes , Patrick . 1884 . John Ruskin: Economist . Edinburgh: William Brown. Golby , J. M. , and A. W. Purdue. 1984 . The Civilisation of the Crowd: Popular Culture in England 1750–1900 . London: Batsford Academic...

... and scholarly book. Tulane University ERSKINEMCKINLEY Work, Culture, and Society in Industrial America. By Herbert G. Gutman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Pp. 343. $12.50.1 The field of American labor history, from its beginnings at the hands...

... continents influenced the moral and social nature of individuals, and have they had an influence in moulding the character and nature of human culture? In his long tenure of the earth, in what manner has man changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition? Glacken proceeds...

...A. W. Coats Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 History of Political Economy 12:4 0 1980 by Duke University Press The culture and the economists: some reflections on Anglo-American...

... later” pile. This is a terrific book, and we very much look forward to the prom- ised continuation of the story. Frank G. Steindl, Oklahoma State University Culture and Currency: Cultural Bias in Monetary Theory and Policy. By John W. Houghton. Boulder, Colo...

...Tiago Mata; Steven G. Medema The essays in this volume examine the economist as public intellectual. Rather than assessing the changing status of the public intellectual in culture or attempting to define the identity of the public intellectual, our approach is to study the public interventions...

.... Porter, R. 1997. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. London: Harper Collins. Romanell, P. 1984. John Locke and Medicine: A New Key to Locke. New York: Prometheus. Piero Sraffa: His Life, Thought, and Cultural Heritage. ByAlessandro Roncaglia. Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. London...

... to conference participants—Craufurd Goodwin, Susan Howson, and Ruth Towse in particular—and also to Kevin Davis, Dina Older-Aguilar, and Roy Weintraub. For our trips to the archives and conversations on cultural economics, this article is dedicated to the memory of Shauna Saunders. © 2005 by Duke University...

...Oliver Bennett Correspondence may be addressed to Oliver Bennett, Center for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom; e-mail: o.bennett@warwick.ac.uk . © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Arnold, M. [1865] 1970 . Essays in Criticism...

.... Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of Specialization: Splenetics versus Economics Edwin G. West 1. Introduction In the mid- 1960s’ the learned journals witnessed a controversy over the meaning of Adam Smith’s “second thoughts” on the virtues of capital- ism’s division of labor (West...

...David Throsby In 1857 in Manchester John Ruskin delivered two public lectures which he titled The Political Economy of Art . Can these lectures be seen in the history of economic thought as prefiguring the contemporary field of cultural economics? This article considers six issues of interest...

.... In Science as Practice and Culture , ed. A. Pickering. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Knorr Cetina , K. , and K. Amann 1988 . Consensus Formation in the Laboratory. Paper prepared for the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta (August). Knorr Cetina , K...

... in Cosmology . Harmondsworth: Penguin. Douglas , M. 1975 . Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Douglas , M. 1978 . Cultural Bias. Royal Anthropological Institute, Occasional Paper no. 35. Douglas , M. , ed. 1982 . Essays in the Sociology...

... as “behavioral” economics. We use recent research to show how a second strand of behavioral economics illuminates the tight interlinkages between preferences, culture, and institutions and brings the discipline almost full circle back to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perspectives. We caution against...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Modern models of economic growth and capitalist modernity rest on capital accumulation, inclusive institutions, and various often unquantifiable aspects of “culture” (to which institutions belong). Scholars have also pinpointed the ability, or rather illusion, of human...

... to turn into action the mediation between the Gospel and history proposed by Catholic social thinking. Economists made that effort under the influence of what could be regarded as the last stage of a tradition that was already present in the culture of economic matters and behavior and had previously been...

... studies, in what different ways it affected economics. The first explores the resonance of the Jansenist culture of several members of the Gournay circle on their methodological approaches and their promotion of agriculture and trade. The second case study focuses on the loan at interest. This article...

... of Pantaleoni, it is not necessary to ask the question of whether and to what extent his anti-Semitism could be defined as “mild” or “ambivalent” and therefore in line with that expressed by a large part of Western culture during the first half of the twentieth century. In this study we document a clear...

...Harro Maas This essay examines the importance of an accounting culture for the rise of marginalism in Victorian England. I trace the use of accounting tools in family and private life to fend off uncertainties in the market and to enhance moral control of the self, examining the use of diaristic...

..., and mounting political instability. Among economists, American institutionalists were most attracted to psychology, notably Wesley Clair Mitchell and John Maurice Clark. Herbert Davenport, Thomas Nixon Carver, and Frank Knight were among the critics. It is suggested that the cultural context of America may...