... 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...

...-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...

...André Burgstaller 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...

..., 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...

.... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Pascal Bridel This article examines the evolution of Sismondi’s price theory as well as his concept of market from 1803 to 1838. Sismondi’s early 1803 price theory in terms of supply and demand is first examined and contrasted with that of Smith in the Wealth of Nations . The progressive...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract Within the discipline of economics, as within all academic disciplines, scholars produce texts in which they examine, discuss, and sometimes invoke their intellectual predecessors. As historians of economic thought, we are faced with the task of evaluating the readings put...

...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...

...Harro Maas This essay examines the importance of an accounting culture for the rise of marginalism in Victorian England. I trace the use of accounting tools in family and private life to fend off uncertainties in the market and to enhance moral control of the self, examining the use of diaristic...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... , and then in contrario , Guicciardini through the mouth of two unnamed Florentine speakers develops the arguments pro and contra the proposed progressive tax. After an overview of its initial reception in the public finance literature, this article closely examines the treatise. Although apparently using the second...

...Lowell R. Jacobsen This article offers a contextualization of strategy in the intellectual history of the early twentieth century. In particular, the Marshall-inspired contributions of Austin Robinson and Dennis Robertson are examined as possible precursors of strategy, with special attention...