... of economic knowledge: two case studies in the recent history of economic thought Douglas W Hands I. Introduction A ‘crucial experiment’ in science is a simple definitive empirical test which either falsifies or corroborates a scientific theory. The ideal crucial...

... of Mississippi . Samuelson Paul A. 1948 . Economics . New York : McGraw-Hill . Secord James A. 2004 . “ Knowledge in Transit .” Isis 95 ( 4 ): 654 – 72 . Seixas Peter . 1987 . “ Lewis Hine: From ‘Social’ to ‘Interpretive’ Photographer .” American Quarterly 39 ( 3...

... between travel and economic knowledge, we, as editors of this special issue, decided in 2019 to organize a conference at the University of Lausanne to contribute to a growing literature in the history and philosophy of economics that examines the manifold relations between economists, their travels...

...Hsiang-Ke Chao Abstract The history of the transmission of Western knowledge to China—Western Learning or Xixue —usually revolves around travelers. What is unmentioned, however, is that the identity of the two types of Chinese travelers of economic knowledge evolved throughout the Western Learning...

...Till Düppe; Ivan Boldyrev Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945 89: Editors Introduction Till Düppe and Ivan Boldyrev One of the strategies of the secret police in the Eastern bloc states, when dealing with ideas deemed potentially dangerous for the power of the Communist Party, was to create...

...D. Wade Hands Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416-0140; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Ashmore , Malcolm . 1989 . The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting the Sociology of Knowledge...

... of knowledge and economic science: Marshall’s interpretation of the classical economists George Argyrous One view of the development of science is that it is a process of accre- tion of proven facts, theories, and methods. This can be termed a “growth of knowledge” (GOK) theory of scientific...

... methodologists largely have ignored the economic dimen- sions of science, knowledge, and epistemology. Nicholas Rescher’s monograph, Cognitive Economy, represents an important attempt to thoroughly integrate eco- nomic considerations within the theory of knowledge. Rescher’s work maintains...

...John Maloney The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge . By Cook Simon J. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xviii ; 331 pp. $90.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews From...

... . 1844 . Statistika . Pozsony : Wigand Károly Fridrik költségén . Mokyr Joel . 2002 . The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Mokyr Joel . 2009 . The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700...

...Esther-Mirjam Sent Edited by Robert F. Garnett Jr. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. 259 pp. Cloth $90.00; paper $29.99. 2001 Book Reviews 385 What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge. Edited by Robert F. Garnett...

...John B. Davis Department of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI 53233. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Barnes , Barry , Bloor David, and John Henry. 1996 . Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... economists as András Bródy and, particularly, János Kornai. By Force of Power: On the Relationship between Social Science Knowledge and Political Power in Economics in Communist Hungary György Péteri As in every other regime, so under the conditions of state socialism, no scholar can assert herself merely...

...J. Barkley Rosser, Jr Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics . By Mirowski Philip Nik-Khah Edward . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 312 pp. $34.95 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References...

...Steven Pressman Robert N. Proctor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 331 pp. $34.95. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Book Reviews 553 Economics and the Philosophy of Science. By Deborah A. Redman. New York...

... Stuart. 1895. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Ap- plications to Social Philosophy. In two volumes, from the fifth London edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge. Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David Ruccio...

.... London: George Bell and Sons. Knowledge and Information in Economics: What Did the Classical Economists Know? Renee Prendergast In his review of the contribution of the economics of information to twentieth-century economic analysis, Joseph Stiglitz suggests that the economics...

...Tiziano Raffaelli Handbook of Knowledge and Economics . Edited by Arena Richard , Festré Agnès , and Lazaric Nathalie . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2012 . 530 pp. Hardback $260.00 . Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews The Great Persuasion...

.... The most persistent theme in the last two-thirds of the book is the indecency of European countries, prominently France, toward the U.S. Institut National de la Statistique et JACQUES MELITZ des Etudes Economiques, Paris Knowledge and Ignorance in Economics. By T. W...

...Vítězslav Sommer The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate...