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Everybody's Business: Jean-Baptiste Say's “General Fact” Conception of Political Economy
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History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (3): 451–468.
Published: 01 September 1998
... . 1 : 91 -113. Winch , D. 1996 . Riches and Poverty: An Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1750–1834 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Everybody’s Business: Jean-Baptiste
Say’s “General Fact” Conception of
Political Economy
Richard Whatmore
Jean...
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A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 708–710.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Rashid, Salim. 1987 . Malthus's Essay on Population: The Facts of “Supergrowth” and the Rhetoric of Scientific Persuasion. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 23.1 : 22 -36. Smith, Adam. [1776] 1976 . An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . Vol. 2...
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The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 795–797.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Marcel Boumans [email protected] 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...
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“Facts Carefully Marshalled” in the Empirical Studies of William Stanley Jevons
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (Suppl_1): 252–276.
Published: 01 December 2001
... , col. 4. “Facts Carefully Marshalled” in the Empirical
Studies of William Stanley Jevons
Sandra J. Peart
William Stanley Jevons earned his well-deserved status as a “pioneer
of modern economics” (Black 1981, 1) because of his role as a mea-
surer and because of his contributions...
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Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2009
...A. M. C. Waterman By Brian P. Cooper. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge. xiv; 294 pp. $60.00. 2009 Poovey, Mary. 1998 . A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Book Reviews
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Playing Fast and Loose with the Facts about the Writings of Malthus and the Classical School
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History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (2): 211–218.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Malthus . 8 vols. London:Pickering & Chatto. Playing Fast and Loose with
the Facts about the Writings of
Malthus and the Classical School
Laurence S. Moss
Sometime after the Second World War ended and the Cold War heated
up, the fields of growth and development came of age. The efforts...
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History of Political Economy 11950689.
Published: 04 June 2025
...Alessandro Roncaglia [email protected] Economic Theories, Protagonists, and Facts: Collected Essays in the History of Economic Thought . By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2024 . xiv; 333 pp. Hardback €135.19 . Copyright 2025 by Duke...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 4. Time chart Marshall designed to organize historical facts and events from 1820 to 1903. The full plate measures a rough 45 × 110 cm. Marshall's last entries are for 1903. Reproduced by kind permission of the Marshall Librarian, Cambridge University Library. Marshall Archives identity
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Controlling for What? Movements, Measures, and Meanings in the US Gender Wage Gap Debate
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of economic experts' descriptions . This article highlights one category of influential, quantitative descriptive claim: stylized facts. Stylized facts are simple empirical regularities in need of explanation. Focusing on the example of the gender wage gap in the United States, this article showcases how...
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French Engineers, Welfare Economics, and Public Finance in the Nineteenth Century
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (4): 636–668.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert Division of labor, in research as well as in teaching, has produced, in economics as elsewhere, an indefinite number of specialities that are usually described as “applied fields.” … These fields may accumulate “private” stocks of facts and methods...
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“Money Is a Sterile Thing”: Martin Luther on the Immorality of Usury Reconsidered
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (4): 683–698.
Published: 01 November 2011
...John D. Singleton In the history of economic thought, Martin Luther is frequently identified with medieval Scholastic doctrine. His belief that “money is sterile” is offered in support of this assessment. However, this obscures the fact that Luther rarely invokes this line of reasoning in his...
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Marking Time: Marshall's Search for Narrative Explanatory Coherence
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 423–446.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Figure 4. Time chart Marshall designed to organize historical facts and events from 1820 to 1903. The full plate measures a rough 45 × 110 cm. Marshall's last entries are for 1903. Reproduced by kind permission of the Marshall Librarian, Cambridge University Library. Marshall Archives identity...
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On Ricardo's Method: The Scottish Connection Considered
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (1): 73–110.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Christophe Depoortère Historians of economic thought who try to connect Ricardo's method with a philosophy generally focus on associationism and pay no attention to Dugald Stewart's influence. In point of fact, Ricardo's method can be connected with Stewart's teaching through his connection...
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Social Interdependencies in Consumption: An Early Economic Debate on Social Distinction, Emulation, and Fashion
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (4): 547–575.
Published: 01 December 2015
... articles in the same journal (1903, 1910, 1913), explored in great detail the impact of third-party consumption on an individual's utility function and, potentially, on social welfare. In fact, in such cases, the derivation of the market demand curve, and even the very notion of consumer surplus, seemed...
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“A Hard Battle to Fight”: Natural Theology and the Dismal Science, 1820–50
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 143–167.
Published: 01 December 2008
... in the sciences, including political economy. In comparison, natural theology was for Richard Whately as structuring on these issues as it was for the Cambridge men. Whately's view on natural theology, however, conformed with the Ricardian predilection for theory over facts. The differences between the Cambridge...
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Das Adam Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 243–264.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Stewart Davenport This essay addresses the question of what happened when the Adam Smith problem of industrializing Europe met the faculty psychology of antebellum America. Although it was not called the Adam Smith problem until the late nineteenth century, the fact that Smith wrote two books...
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Letts Calculate: Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 16–43.
Published: 01 December 2016
... a physiological or psychological fact. Correspondence may be addressed to Harro Maas, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne, Bâtiment Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; e-mail: [email protected] . Earlier versions of this article were presented at workshops at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin...
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“The Honest Marxist”: Yakov Kronrod and the Politics of Cold War Economics in the Post-Stalin USSR
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 100–126.
Published: 01 December 2019
... important to Soviet economic practitioners and allowed once ideologically hostile ideas to become central to economics. This case study makes a larger intervention into the history of late Soviet society, arguing that seemingly arcane intellectual conflicts were, in fact, a reflection of extremely...
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The Struggle over Structural Adjustment: Socialist Revolution versus Capitalist Counterrevolution in Yugoslavia and the World
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 253–276.
Published: 01 December 2019
... that structural adjustment began as a clear neoliberal project, I argue that the second and third worlds, in fact, demanded structural adjustment, which, in response, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund sought to realize but in a way fundamentally different from what was demanded. In this article, I...
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The Wrong Marshall: Notes on the Marshall family in Response to Biographies of the Economist, Alfred Marshall
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (2): 239–273.
Published: 01 April 2020
... disliked nor ostracized by his family despite being cantankerous and possibly brutal. He and his wife Rebecca and their children, including Alfred, were embraced and supported by the wider family. Alfred was, in fact, a product of the family much as described by his wife, Mary Paley Marshall, and John...
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