... Centuries of Theory and Evidence . By Salsman Richard M. . Northampton, Mass. : Elgar , 2017 . viii; 322 pp. $140.00 . ...

... CCC 0018-2702/85/$1.50 The author of the article on Owen in the October 18 19 Edinburgh Review: some neglected evidence. With a reply by William 0. Thweatt Giancarlo de Vivo The question of the authorship of the article ‘Mr Owen’s plans for relieving the national distress...

...J. Ronnie Davis Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Henry Simons, the Radical: Some Documentary Evidence J. Ronnie Davis HENRYSIMONS, the Radical, and John Maynard Keynes, the Re- former, were different only in temperament...

... Britain. The source of this new evidence is the correspondence of Dennis Robertson, now held in Trinity College Library, Cambridge, England. Donald Moggridge and John Presley are editing the papers of D. H. Robertson for publication, with the support of the Royal Economic Society. The authors wish...

... on the Income Tax Exemption and Inheritance Taxes: The Evidence Reconsidered Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Douglas M. Walker A succession duty is the most unobjectionable mode of [statically and intertemporally redistributing wealth] . . . because in that way it is confined...

...Arnold Heertje Correspondence may be addressed to Arnold Heertje, Laegieskampweg 17, 1412 ER Naarden, The Netherlands; e-mail: joab@heertje.nl . Further Evidence onthe Originof Samuelson’s Multiplier -Accelerator Model ArnoldHeertje Ihighly welcomethe reactions by Claes-Henric...

... the evidence now available from three additional censuses (1851, 1901, and 1911). It confirms that Marshall did know where he was born. And the evidence suggests an alternative (and darker) reason for Marshall's reported places of birth. Alfred Marshall’s Reported Birthplace: Evidence from the Censuses...

..., that Keynes was referring to a different set of notes that have only recently been located. Keynes was misled, nevertheless, in assuming that the notes he examined could establish his case. Moreover, although Jevons's statements could be confusing, the available evidence indicates that his complaints about...

... unemployment and the rate of change of money wages, Dicks-Mireaux and Dow noted that it had become less evident after the war, giving more emphasis to the “pushfulness” of trade unions. Along with the already mentioned Klein and Ball 1959 , another paper that appeared before the council tour of UK...

...Marcel Boumans m.j.boumans@uu.nl The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science . By Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , 2020 . 376 pp. $29.95 . Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Considering...

... to Milton Friedman , 5 August . Milton Friedman Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. More Fiber Than Thread? Evidence on the Mirowski-Hands Yarn J. Daniel Hammond Wade Hands and Phil Mirowski assert much in their pair of papers on Henry Schultz, Harold...

.... This essay enriches the debate over the nature of Simons’s death by offering an account that brings together evidence that sheds light on the circumstances surrounding it. This evidence suggests that a grave disappointment Simons faced the day before he died contributed to his death and helps explain why...

...Harro Maas William Whewell's and Richard Jones's criticism of Jeremy Bentham's and David Ricardo's “dismal” views on the relation of theory and evidence in political economy was motivated by the former's views on the structuring role of natural theology for questions of method and evidence...

...David Skarbek; Emily Skarbek Abstract Analytic narratives combine rational choice theory—often extensive-form, game-theoretic models—and qualitative evidence to understand historical and institutional questions in political economy. This article begins by characterizing the features of analytic...

...Phillip W. Magness; James R. Harrigan In this article we explore the intellectual origins of John Maynard Keynes’s “Economic Possibilities” by introducing evidence of its parallels to a similar utopian message in H. G. Wells’s obscure didactic novel, The World of William Clissold (1926). Drawing...

...Harris Dellas; George S. Tavlas Evidence about Lloyd Mints’s role in the development of monetary economics at the University of Chicago has proven elusive, with the result that Mints has long been considered a peripheral figure at Chicago. We provide evidence showing that the standard assessment...

... that macroeconomists' models and practices can adequately be understood as a series of battles between schools of thought. Our purpose, in this article, is to tell the story of another set of researchers, “sunspot” theorists. Drawing on archives, interviews and bibliometric evidence, we explain why this loose...

...Robert A. Cord Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian revolution occurred. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of the General Theory while others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, such as Keynes's relations with the Cambridge Circus. However...

... responded with its Brief of Arguments against Public Ownership (1913–17). Resembling a loose-leaf service for lawyers, the Brief furnished opinion leaders with more than three hundred items of evidence, some drawn from economists, about the failings of government-run enterprises. To impart lessons about...

... of this peculiar phenomenon. When the recession of 1958 was accompanied by a steady increase in general prices, some experts took this as further supporting evidence for cost-push inflation. Against the background of this atypical inflation, the US Congress, then ruled by the opposition Democratic Party, initiated...