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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 81–110.
Published: 01 December 2021
... produced under the guidance and scrutiny of international financial institutions (IFI) and with the help of experts. Following Martha Lampland s (2010) suggestion that the pro- duction of false numbers is mundane, occurring when formal require- ments of quantification surpass the importance of veracity, I...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 471–496.
Published: 01 June 2023
... that criticism of the US statistical system. The 0.7 percent adjustment to milk production is a good example of Lampland's ( 2010 ) “false numbers,” or numbers used in provisional planning that are perhaps not precisely accurate but introduced in the context of a social data production process requiring closure...
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Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 327–342.
Published: 01 December 2021
... production and trade index use, false accounting, 82, 88, 93, 99 101, 156 107 scientific rigor, 142 false numbers, 87 time series use, 143 46 farm management, 58 and worldview, 141, 169 Farrell, Diana, 196 Fountain, Henry, 239, 241 42 Federal Reserve Board, 153 French forecasting, 160, 167 financial...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (4): 519–528.
Published: 01 November 1983
... (Hebrew plural for kethubah) may
exist, a legal attempt to assess the value of a kethubah is made in the
context of false-witness laws. Some of these laws are unique to Jewish
Correspondence may be addressed to Dr. Yehoshua Liebermann, Dept. of Economics, Bar-
Ilan University 52 100 Ramat Gan...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 131–161.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of international price
differentials, a negative trade balance with the Baltic countries, and the
payment of remittances that required full-weight silver coins severely
reduced the number of coins available for domestic circulation.3 How-
ever serious these economic perils and the outflowof silver were...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (5): 957–959.
Published: 01 October 2021
... century (54). However, this statement should be expanded upon because 958 Book Reviews at first glance, it seems to me that Beccaria was only saying that generally the value of a thing decreases as the number of sellers increases (Beccaria 1769: 348). In the early nineteenth century, the Italian...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (2): 360–363.
Published: 01 April 2021
...James Forder The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society . By Appelbaum Binyamin . New York : Little, Brown and Company , 2019 . 448 pp. $18.99 . Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 References Card David Krueger Allen...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 359–379.
Published: 01 June 1990
.... The “stability of statistical
frequencies” would be a much better name for it. The former
suggests, as perhaps Poisson intended to suggest, but what is cer-
tainly false, that every class of event shows statistical regularity of
occurrence if only one takes a sufficient number of instances...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (1): 260–263.
Published: 01 March 1992
... for all vari-
ables simultaneously, not sequentially. To ensure simultaneous clearing of all
markets and trading only at general equilibrium prices (no false trading) the syn-
thesis model includes the Walrasian auctioneer and Walras’s Law, which requires
the sum of all excess demands...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of statement as self-sufficient evidence; I only consider the
statement as one element of a demonstration, and this should be obvious
to anyone who reads my article.
Professor Morrison does not only think that this method of counting
sections is inappropriate; he also writes it is false: “The systems...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 March 2008
... testify falsely that a husband divorced his wife and had not
paid her the amount stipulated in the kethubah when in fact there was no
divorce. Valuation is at issue since under Rabbinic law perjured witnesses
must compensate the aggrieved husband for the damage that they had
intended to cause him...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 53–60.
Published: 01 December 1995
... might chance choices sanctified by habit solve the simpler task
of merely differentiating between hypotheses (2) and (3)?
Consider a finite number of agents, and let G stand for the corre-
sponding power set (minus 0) comprised of these agents. Suppose that
the agents in each element (g) of G...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 1982
... is ‘false.’ How-
ever, participants in a social research tradition may claim a divergence
of theory and reality to be the fault of reality. That is, the reality may
be ‘mistaken.’ In particular, since the ends of individuals are modeled
by the theory, do we conclude from a divergence of theory...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (3): 409–433.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and Landreth 1996, are gratefully acknowledged. Keynes’s Collected Writings (Moggridge et al. 1971-89) is cited as CW , with volume and page numbers. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Aspromourgos T. 2012 . “ Keynes’s General Theory after 75 Years: Chapter 24...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 187–222.
Published: 01 June 1990
... as instru-
mentalism, i.e., the view that theories are not descriptions but instru-
ments for deriving useful results and are neither true nor false.
Schumpeter’s contribution to economic methodology has not re-
ceived the attention it deserves? There are several reasons for this.
First...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (4): 661–668.
Published: 01 November 1986
... Mises left open the possibility of showing that the axioms or pos-
tulates of Austrian economics are false by examining empirical evidence,
then this charge against him would have had less force. But as we have
seen, Mises rules this out.
Even had Mises not ruled out the possibility...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (S1): 289–310.
Published: 01 December 1990
... realism is the thesis that certain linguistic representations, namely meaningful statements and their configurations, are true or false of those real entities to which they refer. Corresponding to forms of semantic realism, we may formulate kinds of semantic realisticness and unrealisticness, attributable...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 296–298.
Published: 01 June 1980
...,” “Thomas
Paine,” “Alexander Hamilton,” and “Thomas Jefferson.” The editors pro-
vide short introductions to each group of selections and make a deligent effort
to press their case. Yet, this reviewer remains unconvinced that their asser-
tions have any more validity than do any number...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (4): 745–747.
Published: 01 November 1993
... and methodological-that afflict
us and which we are inclined to avoid facing. At the end of his book, Boland asks
a deceptively simple question, “how do we know when a neo-classical explanation
of price is false?” (215). He believes that neoclassical economists have no satis-
factory answer to the question...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (2): 322–324.
Published: 01 June 1988
... models to models that are understandable at the
undergraduate level. Boland does not do that, nor do I believe he even tries, since
he has a number of problems with the advanced theory. Many of these problems
seem relevant and interesting, but none are developed to a degree that convinces
me...
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