... system after 1830 is arguable, but nevertheless, OʼBrien backs up his claim with ample documentation. Ricardo largely employed the method of comparative statics to support his policy recommendations, but even he was more interested in the paths between successive equilibria than...

...Jeremy Shearmur Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and Documents . Edited by Caldwell Bruce . Vol. 13 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . 331 pp. Cloth $60.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Jeremy Shearmur The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents; The Definitive Edition. Vol. 2 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek , edited by Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii; 283 pp. $15.00. 2008 Book Reviews Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods...

... on the theory and methods of econometrics given by Frisch at the Poincaré Institute at the University of Paris in 1933, as well as extensive lecture notes from Yale University in 1930. These largely unknown documents elaborate on Frisch's scientific views, how he aimed at modeling economics on physics...

... there is a limited amount of documentation and firsthand accounts. In this article we examine the case of Maffeo Pantaleoni, one of the most influential Italian economists of the nineteenth century and at the same time an intellectual who was among those most closely involved in anti-Semitic propaganda. In the case...

...Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche; Annie L. Cot This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages...

...David Laidler; Roger Sandilands James Ahiakpor's critique of our 2002 work on the relationship between a certain 1932 Harvard memorandum on antidepression policies and the 1932 Harris Foundation manifesto dealing with the same issues misses the significance of these documents...

...John Pullen The extensive correspondence between T. R. Malthus and David Ricardo has been documented in The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo , edited by P. Sraffa (1951–73). Malthus conducted an even more extensive correspondence with correspondents other than Ricardo. The dates...

... of the Western Allies, and thereby confronted political authorities with the fact that proper denazification could succeed only if Nazi planning methods were rejected. This argument has been constructed around various kinds of documentation, including advisory reports, newspaper/magazine articles, and academic...

... requirements against demand deposits, and the embedding of monetary-policy rules in legislation. This paper assesses departmental memoranda, correspondence, and published material to document the development of core characteristics that left the Chicagoans well-placed to resist the Keynesian revolution...

...François Claveau; Yves Gingras A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments...

... a significant stage in the transition of economics at MIT from being a department focused exclusively on providing courses for engineers and scientists to one that was to become a major location for research in economics. Through examination of papers held in the Rockefeller archives it documents...

...Michael McLure This study reports on the light that documents stored in the Archive Centre at King's College, Cambridge, shed on A. C. Pigou's fellowship theses. Particular consideration is given to Walter Alexander Raleigh's and Brooke Foss Westcott's assessments of Pigou's first, and unsuccessful...

...Paola Tubaro Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen edited the English translation of Hermann Heinrich Gossen’s 1854 book The Laws of Human Relations and wrote a lengthy introduction to it. His highly appreciative, thoroughly documented study has become a major reference on an otherwise little-known early...

... credit to his wife and their two close friends, none received formal recognition or reward for their contribution to the permanent income hypothesis. The article documents this hypothesis as an example in professional economics of the well-known “Matilda effect,” in which women's intellectual...

...Chris Miller This article examines shifts in Soviet ideas about the economic and political role of the state. Drawing on documents from Russian archives as well as published debates, the article traces Soviet ideas about how states operate. Examining the role of writers such as Fedor Burlatsky...

...José Edwards Fifty years past A. W. Coats’s (1969) “Research Priorities in the History of Economics”—the first article in History of Political Economy ( HOPE )—the opportunity arises to check how such priorities have changed over time. Drawing from the 3,084 documents published in HOPE volumes 1–50...

... (“conversion”) could lead to a serious economic depression. The focus here is on a United Nations Consultative Group which had the remit of estimating the economic and social consequences of global disarmament. Using information from documents of the time, substantially supplemented with personal commentaries...

...Beatrice Cherrier; Aurélien Saïdi This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick...

...Franck Jovanovic; Guy Numa To date, little research has documented the international diffusion of financial economics. Financial economics was supposedly “introduced” in France in the 1970s. Some analysts have argued that it is an American author—Leonard J. Savage—who allowed French authors...