... Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Fourcade Marion . 2009 . Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Freeland Richard M. 1992 . Academia’s Golden Age...

...Keith Tribe Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s . By Fourcade Marion . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2009 . xxi; 386 pp. Cloth $35.00 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book...

... of Political Economy 16:4 0 1984 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/84/$1.50 Reflections on the development of economics as a discipline Geofrey C. Harcourt I 1. The Nobel...

... of measurement in disciplines that bear some relation to utility theory. The review illustrates that in the years 1870-1910, the period in which Jevons, Menger, and Walras were active, the classical understanding of measurement dominated not only utility theory but also all other disciplines surveyed...

... . The Sociology of Science . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. MultiplePriorities inE volvingScholarly Disciplines PaulA. Samuelson In the history of science or ascholarly discipline, singleton discovery is the singular exception. As Robert K. Merton (sociologist, historian, and philosopher...

... A. 1987 . The Decline of Law as an Autonomous Discipline, 1962-1987. Harvard Law Review 100 (February): 761 -80. Reder, Melvin W. 1982 . Chicago Economics: Permanence and Change. Journal of Economic Literature 20 (March): 1 -38. Richenberg, L. J. 1953 . Review of Committee Decisions...

...Jennifer Cohen Abstract Economics reproduces itself as a [white] man's field through resistance to demographic and epistemic diversity. Although some resistance is expressed by anonymous individuals, they are neither the sole nor the primary source. Resistance is internal to the discipline...

... disciplines and over time. The most sustained impact was on the discipline of psychology, where size and the shape of the discipline were radically transformed, beginning with the mental health crisis of the war years. In sociology, the initial cooperation with psychiatry that marked the late 1940s and 1950s...

...Marcel Boumans; Ariane Dupont-Kieffer Econometricians have from the start considered historical knowledge of their own discipline as reflexive knowledge useful for delineating their discipline, that is, for setting its disciplinary boundaries with respect to its aims, its methods, and its...

...Craufurd D. Goodwin This article explores the interactions between the disciplines of economics and psychology as they emerged from the mother discipline of philosophy and moved into the twentieth century. Some of the early contributors who are examined include Simon Nelson Patten, William...

...Daniel Geary This article offers a case study of how social scientific disciplines differentiate themselves from one another, focusing on the relationship of economics to sociology. It presents four categories to describe common ways that economists and sociologists understood the relationship...

...Ross B. Emmett The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract Within the discipline of economics, as within all academic disciplines, scholars produce texts in which they examine, discuss, and sometimes invoke their intellectual predecessors. As historians of economic thought, we are faced with the task of evaluating the readings put...

...Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak; Ramón García Fernández Economics as a scholarly discipline was transformed in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, when many countries in the region received financial and academic support from US institutions ostensibly aimed at “modernizing” the standards...

... to documenting the early life of Rosenstein-Rodan, this article discusses two critical junctures in the history of development economics, namely, the birth of the discipline in the late 1940s and its decline approximately a quarter century later. Rosenstein-Rodan was a fundamental player in both instances...

... theory to cybernetics. As this profusion of analytical technologies gathered pace in the early years of the Cold War, practitioners of economics and cognate disciplines began to register what I term tool shock . Foundational debates about the epistemological properties and scientific legitimacy...

... 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...

... masters of the discipline. Walsh was an adamant defender of a deterministic, test approach to the theory of index numbers, whereas Edgeworth favored probabilistic approaches and thought index-number theorists should not close themselves to alternative methods. Holding contrasting views about the making...

... between different disciplines and that certain individuals assisted this process by acting as intermediaries between domains of knowledge. Correspondence may be addressed to Claire Wright, 18/50 - 52 Keira St., Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2500; e-mail: [email protected] . This article uses UCINET...