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History of Political Economy (2025) 57 (1): 176–179.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Sarah F. Small [email protected] The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement, and Theory . Edited by Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto . New York : Bloomsbury , 2023 . 348 pp. $115.00 . Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 How...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (4): 608.
Published: 01 November 1982
...Royall Brandis Igor Webb. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981. Pp. 219. $17.50. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 BOOK REVIEWS
From custom to capital. By Igor Webb. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
1981. Pp. 219. $17.50.
This work of literary...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (4): 540–563.
Published: 01 November 1976
...Denis O'Brien Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Denis O'Brien is Professor of Economics at The University of Durham. Customs unions: trade creation
and trade diversion in historical perspective
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of human customs did not lend itself to such formulas. In spite of his reluctance Smith eventually agreed to help Windischgrätz, but the prize had no winner. Correspondence may be addressed to José-Manuel Menudo at [email protected] and to Nicolas Rieucau at [email protected] . We would...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 505–522.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Craig Smith In his Life of Adam Smith , Dugald Stewart notes that Smith was “always disposed to ascribe to custom and fashion their full share in regulating the opinions of mankind with respect to beauty.” Indeed, Stewart refers to this as a “collateral” inquiry within The Theory of Moral...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (5): 833–856.
Published: 01 October 2021
... accumulation. In On Liberty and Considerations , Mill explored the reasons for China’s stagnancy in human improvement. He discussed the negative impact of the “despotism of custom” on individual liberty and the defects of a bureaucratic government in nineteenth-century China. Mill thought that a stationary...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (1): 43–50.
Published: 01 March 1998
....
These consumption patterns, institutionalized in customs, can then
serve as a guideline for the individual to allocate his or her income and
therefore meet some of the complexities observed above. In other
words, the individual may be aided by the experiences of his or her fel-
lows, which should...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 June 2006
... (2006)
Clearly for Hume this transition represents an improvement. But what is
it that improves? The answer is not human nature, but customs and man-
ners. A single article precludes any lengthy discussion of the former nega-
tive point;1 accordingly, I here concentrate on the latter positive...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (1): 79–116.
Published: 01 March 1992
... are generally ignored, especially that particular asset which can-
not be sold separately from the business, customer goodwill toward the
firm. As A. M. Endres (1985, 637) notes, economics has “paid little
attention to the functions of goodwill as a form of business property...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 221–244.
Published: 01 December 2020
....
Creighton
T. E.
. 1980 . “ Time-of-Use Rates for Very Large Customers on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company System .” IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems PAS-99 , no. 1 : 147 – 51 .
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. 2002 . “ The Economist...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (4): 637–649.
Published: 01 November 1985
..., University of Auck-
land, Private Bag, Auckland- 1. New Zealand.
1. The genercil case for theoretical convergence is made in Hamilton 1953.
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Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (1): 19–47.
Published: 01 March 1990
... is characterized by what Commons calls
“working rules,” patterns of behavior that are expected of and com-
monly followed by group members. Working rules range from unwritten
customs to procedures defined by the laws of the state and may be
enforced by moral, economic, or physical sanctions...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 745–748.
Published: 01 September 1992
...
observation:
I will tell you a Secret, which I learned many Years ago from the
Commissioners of the Customs in London: They said, when any
Commodity appeared to be taxed above a moderate Rate, the Con-
sequence was to lessen that Branch of the Revenue by one Half; and
one of those...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 June 1987
...
to be mostly off-the-cuff judgments-especially, casual remarks about the
physical and mental capacities of Americans, Englishmen, Scots, Irish-
men, East Indians, and others, and their social customs. I do not recall
seeing a single table of figures. Even the odd numerical fact is casual:
As between...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (4): 617–640.
Published: 01 November 1993
... accepting the value of Montesquieu’s relativist and comparative
methodology, they did not accept the degree of emphasis he placed on
climate and geography as factors explaining social diversity. For Hume
and Smith, the character of a people is formed by custom, with na-
tional customs arising...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (4): 725–732.
Published: 01 November 1994
..., specialization of tasks, qualitative and quantitative effects,
social division versus technical division, and a nature-custom-stipulation trichotomy.
This last distinction is followed into an independent exposition of ideas that would
be of considerable interest to both “old” and “new” institutionalists...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (4): 567–577.
Published: 01 November 1986
... twenty shillings.
In the same market, with the same quantity of fish for sale, and with
customers in number and every other respect the same, the same lot
of fish might fetch two very different price
Mill in 1869 interpreted this example wrongly-that “the demand and
supply are equal...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (2): 215–236.
Published: 01 June 1977
... distribution of decision-making responsibility or
power among the following elements in society: (i) individuals, (ii)
nondeliberative forms of socioeconomic control (for example, morals,
religion, education, values, customs), (iii) voluntary groups or associ-
ations, and (iv) the state...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (2): 345–349.
Published: 01 June 1989
.... After delicate calculations, he reaches the following
conclusion: “Probably the prices which the monopolist will fix in order to
render his profit a maximum are such that the customers will lose through
discrimination” (1925, 2:207).4 But the opposite may occur. Thus, the
welfare effect under...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2025) 57 (1): 79–106.
Published: 01 February 2025
... manner as Adam Ferguson, Edmund Burke, and Adam Smith before him, that is, to refer to a set of institutional features of society that included property, the rule of law, integrated markets, centralized political authority, expansive general education, refined social customs, and formalized obligations...
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