... economics education syllabi examinations References Ackoff Russell L. 1989 . “ From Data to Wisdom .” Journal of Applied Systems Analysis 16 ( 1989 ): 3 – 9 . Mitchell Wesley Clair . 1967/1969 . Types of Economic Theory , 2 vols. edited by Dorfman Joseph . New York...

...). History of Political Economy I9:2 0 1987 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/87/$1.50 Demand and relative price in Ricardo: an examination of outstanding issues Andrk Burgstaller I...

.... On Ricardo’s Method: The Unitarian Influence Examined Christophe Depoortère In 1996 Sergio Cremaschi and Marcelo Dascal published an article in this journalthat discussed the background of David Ricardo’s method- ology, especially the one used in his Principles. They followed Piero Sraffa’s suggestion...

..., and that Vienna police records (apparently examined by Doug- las in wartime Liverpool) revealed that “Hitler himself is an illegitimate descendant of a Viennese Baron Rothschild” (Douglas 1945, 41). Douglas referred to “the Ger- man-speaking Jew-inspired Fabian Society” (40), “Mr. Lloyd George, the protégé...

...-examination of Matteo Liberatore’s Principii di Economia Politica Giacomo Costa An article on a largely unknown book published some 120 years ago by an author known only, if at all, to specialists in late nineteenth-century Italian history or in Catholic social thought, requires a few words...

... in the 1950s and 1960s did not develop or support the linear model, to examine the theoretical and empirical foundations of their representation of the links between science and technology, and to study its consequences for patent policies. To do so, we mainly focus on Richard Nelson’s seminal and recent...

... Sentiments . This article examines what Smith has to say about fashion and attempts to identify in what sense it is “collateral” to the main inquiry of The Theory of Moral Sentiments . As we proceed, it will become clear that Smith does indeed advance a well-developed analysis of fashion as a social...

...Vincent Barnett This article examines the potential influence of the work of two psychologists—G. F. Stout and James Sully—on J. M. Keynes’s economic theory. It does so by providing an analysis of aspects of the notes that Keynes made while studying for the Civil Service entrance examination...

...Malcolm Rutherford This essay examines the various field observational methods used in labor economics in the United States from the early 1900s to the 1930s. Labor relations, at that time, was an area of critical importance as well as an area in which existing economic theory provided little...

...Craufurd D. Goodwin Some novelists in the nineteenth century, for example Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens, used fiction to illustrate the economic behavior postulated by the early political economists and their critics. “Realist” novelists later in this century and into the twentieth examined...

...Angus Burgin In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose . This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions...

...Michel De Vroey The aim of this essay is to examine economists' views about the relationship between Marshallian and Walrasian theory. Are they complementary, as is usually believed, or do they constitute alternative research programs? I compare two viewpoints on this matter, the conciliatory...

...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...

... as an economist, and examines his views on methodology and the influences Pellegino Rossi and Jean-Baptiste Say exerted in his thought and writings. In this context European economic liberalism of the 19 th century is revisited and the question about its relevance for the new-born states of South-Eastern Europe...

...Christopher Bliss The paper examines the so-called Cambridge post-Keynesians from the point of view of one who was exposed to them as an undergraduate, with the addition of some mature thoughts. As confirmed by Luigi Pasinetti in his 2007 book Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: A “Revolution...

... and Bloomfield, U.S. overseas missions should loosen constraints on the activity of economic institutions and policy authorities, in order to increase their effectiveness as guarantors of financial stability and promoters of national development. We examine this episode in the light of the U.S. postwar foreign...

...Charles L. Ballard; Marianne Johnson We examine the evolution of applied, computational general-equilibrium models (AGE), from their inception in the 1970s through the end of the twentieth century. We describe the simultaneous development of several different “strains” of such models, along...

...Tiago Mata Historians of economics are helping us understand how economic knowledge is made. In concert with trends from the sociology and history of science, historians meticulously examine the practices of economists. But as they have trained their attention to the scales and sites where those...

...Marianne Johnson This article examines the institutionalization of public finance as a subfield of economics in American universities from the founding of professional academic economics departments in the 1880s through the eve of the Great Depression. It is argued that what became identified...

..., but there are also sharp differences. The diversity of revealed preference theory is not well understood, and one purpose of this article is to improve our historical understanding of the field by examining this historical diversity. This history is valuable for its own sake, but also because it is relevant...