... of Economics: Essays on Economics and the Economics Profession. By David Colander. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. x; 203 pp. $75.00. David Colander believes that of Neville Keynes’s tripartite division of economics into the positive, the normative, and the art of economics, only the first two...

...David Colander From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory . By Milonakis Dimitris Fine Ben . London : Routledge , 2009 . xiii ; 368 pp. $240.00 (hardback); $59.95 (paperback) . From Economics Imperialism...

...Roger E. Backhouse The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics . Edited by Emmett Ross B. . Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar , 2010 . xi; 350 pp. Hardback $206.00 ; paperback $55.00 . Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most...

...H. Spencer Banzhaf Duke University Press 2006 Banzhaf, H. Spencer. 2001 . Quantifying the Qualitative: Quality-Adjusted Price Indexes in the United States, 1915-61. In The Age of Economic Measurement , edited by J. L. Klein and M. S. Morgan. HOPE 33 ( supplement ): 345 -70...

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...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...

...Flavio Comim Duke University Press 2000 Backhouse, R. 1998 . The Transformation of U.S. Economics 1920-1960, as Viewed through a Survey of Journal Articles. In From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism ,edited by Mary S. Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford. HOPE 30 (supplement): 85...

...John B. Davis Duke University Press 2002 Aslanbeigui, N., and V. Montecinos. 1998 . Foreign Students in U.S. Doctoral Programs. Journal of Economic Perspectives 12.3 : 171 -82. Coats, A. 1993 . The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics: British and American Economic...

...Maria Cristina Marcuzzo; Annalisa Rosselli Duke University Press 2002 Garegnani, Pierangelo. 1978 . Notes on Consumption,Investment, and Effective Demand: I. Cambridge Journal of Economics 2.4 : 335 -53. Hands, D. Wade. 1994 . The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts...

...Jack J. Vromen By Geoffrey M. Hodgson. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1999. 345 pp.$95.00. 2001 Nelson, Richard R., and Sidney G. Winter. 1982 . An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change . Cambridge,Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 190 Book Reviews...

... Adam Smith is the current standard. It will be indispens- able for future students and scholars of Adam Smith. For those who are already engrossed in Smithian literature it will repay an extended examination. Lehigh University J. RALPHLINDGREN Economics...

... of Economics: Some Lies My Teacbers Told Me. By Lawrence A. Boland. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. xiii, 233 pp. $45.00. The Inexact and Separate Science of Eanomics. By Daniel M. Hausman. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xi, 372 pp. $59.95; paper $16.95. These two new books...

... Book Reviews 747 mobile plant is irrelevant. When the economic theorist finds these definitions of productive resources too constraining, he ignores them. But that does not make them false. Boland’s position, to my mind, is that the science of economics has run into a dead end...

...: “Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior.” www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/2001/akerlof-video.html . Allison, James. 1983 . Behavioral Economics . New York: Praeger. Altman, Morris. Forthcoming. The Novel Prize in Behavioral and Experimental Economics: A Contextual and Critical Appraisal...

...Yann Giraud There are two main approaches to the use of textbooks in the history of recent economics. One approach consists in seeing textbooks as repositories of past knowledge and in using them as shortcuts to retrace changes in the discipline. Another perspective, favored by science studies...

...Joseph Persky Economics, Entrepreneurship and Utopia: The Economics of Jeremy Bentham and Robert Owen . By Trincado Estrella Santos-Redondo Manuel . London : Routledge , 2017 . 206 pp. $175.00 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...William J. Barber From the Economics of Welfare to the Economics of Warfare (and Back) in the Thought of A. C. Pigou William J. Barber "To the Political Economy we have read hitherto there is needed a companion volume, The Political Economy of War." A. C. Pigou (1877- 1959) wrote these words...

... to most readers, and illuminates them with superb editing. Indiana University of Pennsylvania DONALDA. WALKER The reconstruction of economics: an analysis of the fundamentals of institutional economics. By Allan G. Gruchy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. Pp. 173. $32.95...

...Yann Giraud Abstract Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte; Yann Giraud Economists such as Alvin Roth and Esther Duflo have recently argued that economics in the late twentieth century has evolved from (social) science to engineering. On the other hand, historians such as Mary Morgan and Michel Armatte have argued...