...Judy L. Klein; Mary S. Morgan Duke University Press 2001 The Reader’s Essential Non-Guide to The Age of Economic Measurement Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan There is no editorial introduction or conclusion to this volume, nor is the book divided into labeled parts, nor...

... community in Jerusa- lem imposed on itself when it adopted the model suggested by the Third Isaiah (see Is. 615-6; 66:18-21) as appropriate for the new, priestly people of the Lord. University of Newcastle, Australia BARRYGORDON The essential Adam Smith. Edited...

.... In fact, Menger shared several core positions with modern thinkers. Such non-Aristotelian threads in Menger tackled in the article encompass his views on essentialism and realism, a priori knowledge, the classification of sciences, and scientific value-freedom, as well as methods of historical inquiry...

... affections as an essential means of harmonizing these two dimensions. To prove this point, the article examines several economic texts written before Marshall's major economic treatise, Principles of Economics , the first edition of which appeared in 1890. These texts have received little consideration...

... journal articles in economics and in nearly half in macroeconomics. Surprisingly, its rise as an essential element in the vocabulary of economists can be dated only to the early 1970s. We trace the history of shocks in macroeconomics from Ragnar Frisch and Eugen Slutsky in the 1920s and 1930s through real...

...Anthony M. Endres The case made for market-determined, flexible exchange rates by Princeton economist Frank D. Graham between the 1920s and the late 1940s is examined. It is argued that Graham's case embodied all essential elements of a monetary approach to exchange rates and the balance...

..., fictions, as thought-experiments or models, are used to capture and depict essential elements of economic reality. This approach is evident in the work of François Quesnay and central to that of Adam Smith, setting the mold for later economic thinkers. Correspondence may be addressed to Michael H...

... with the probabilistic nature of the real economic world. One can discern in these documents also that an essential part of Frisch's concept of econometrics as a science was its instrumental role in policy preparation for welfare and improvement of human conditions. Correspondence may be addressed to Olav Bjerkholt...

... structures as means to make improvements in society. Second, Director believed that open-minded educators who challenged social injustice and prejudice were essential for social and economic reform. Third, Director adopted the critical and skeptical social philosophy of Thorstein Veblen and H. L. Mencken...

... to be remarkably unproductive. This is explained by an essentially negative approach and by a tradition of self-righteous intolerance that goes back to Keynes himself. Correspondence may be sent to [email protected] . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Barro, Robert J...

... paper was regularly used to make commercial payments. While thinkers of the stature of David Hume and Adam Smith utilized the quantity theory of money or the real bills doctrine to explain the monetary system, Henry Thornton broke new ground by developing a theory that recognized the essential truth...

... act to modify previously established market outcomes. In contrast, de Viti worked with a framework where political and market outcomes were established simultaneously because he regarded the state as an essential productive factor within society. At the same time, however, de Viti did not treat state...

... of economists and a span of time – essentially between the two wars, with a few encroachments in the years following on the death of Keynes. Cambridge was not only a place, but also a play of magnetic forces, drawing together and driving apart, where ideas emerged from an environment formed through intense...

... that plagues dynamic general equilibrium models, but also that the problem, though variously recognized, was essentially ignored. The suggestion that the capital theory controversy was a waste of time fails to recognize that Robinson had drawn attention to a fundamental unsolved problem in economic theory...

... of Vienna was essential for the development of mathematical economics. Based on Karl Menger’s diaries and correspondence, the present paper considers the development and struggles of the young Karl Menger, focusing on the years 1919–23, when Vienna was a vanquished city. We discuss the various relations...

..., but emerges most clearly in the 1976 book. There, Scitovsky presents in an economic context the essential elements of Fromm’s psychosocial critique of the United States, a Puritan-type culture that encourages moneymaking but not the cultivation of leisure; a mass-production economy that provides comfort...

... developed his identity as a macroeconometrician and how he forged a new scientific practice of macroeconometric modeling during 1938–55 is essential for drawing a clear picture of Klein’s importance in the creation and further development of macroeconometric modeling. Toward this aim, I focus on Klein’s...

... of calculation and refine the results. The Solow residual inspired a surge of interest (and criticism) in the 1980s when used by Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott to justify empirically the concept of technology shocks. In this paper, I argue that the resulting debates were not essentially different from those...

... reipublicae ,” which has been freely translated as the healing power of society. This article aims to explain the meaning and significance given by Malthus in his theory of population to these two concepts. Their essential role in preventing or remedying overpopulation does not seem to have received adequate...

..., these results were consistent with the old classical conception of price formation emerging from the collective interaction of the traders. Aggregation and price discovery constitute essential functions of classical markets. We explore the divergence of neoclassical scholars from this classical tradition...