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... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...: 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...

...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...

...Gregory Besharov The Outbreak of the Cost Disease: Baumol and Bowen’s Founding of Cultural Economics Gregory Besharov There is, however, a branch of human activity where the results are not susceptible of accurate measurement. We may call it “the arts,” though...

...Oliver Bennett Beyond Machinery: The Cultural Policies of Matthew Arnold Oliver Bennett In a collection of papers that looks largely to economists for a historical understanding of why governments have supported the arts, it is per- haps necessary to begin with an explanation of what...

.... 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...

...Philippe Fontaine [email protected] The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History . By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xii ; 220 pp. $18.95 . At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth...

... the technocratic consensus regarding market-led policies. If the aftermath of the social uprising triggered the cultural decline of the Chilean model as a dispositive to justify market-oriented policies, the way in which the economy is publicly discussed also changed radically. [email protected]...

.... 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...

... economy. Jordan J. Ballor, Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy 10.1215/00182702-9548379 The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History. By Massimiliano Vatiero. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii; 92 pp. $128.00. Transactions do not have a natural definition, George Stigler once...

... 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...