... 10.1215/00182702-2008-046 Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859. By Brian P. Cooper. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge. xiv; 294 pp. $60.00. As an unintended consequence of Malthus’s Whiggish polemic against Godwin’s...

..., and granting permission to reproduce extracts from Thornton letters in their possession. Peter Douglas Zohrab provided useful information on specific aspects of the Zohrab family's background. This publication has been possible because of the full cooperation received from Pru de Lavison, who kindly gave me...

.... The Political Economy of the Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism. By Sue Headlee. New York: Praeger, 1991. 212 pp. $51.55. The family farm is one of the most durable icons in American economic lore. The yeoman farmer, the backbone of Jeffersonian democracy, remains a powerful...

...Stephen M. Stigler Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A Portrait with Family and Friends . By Barbé Lluís . Translated by Black Mary C. . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2010 . xxxvi ; 291 pp. Cloth $150.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Eason R...

...Marynel Ryan Van Zee This article examines conceptions of the family, and the relationships within it, as checks to individual self-interest in German economic thought over the nineteenth century. Across various discourses, marriage and the family emerged as symbols of commitment to the common good...

..., authors, and historians researching Alfred Marshall and the wider Marshall family, including Professor Peter Groenewegen for his seminal biography, A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall 1842–1924 . This research shows that the supposed meeting between Charles Henry Marshall, Alfred’s uncle, and Nehemiah...

... of the present article is to show that evolutionary faith is not really enough to remove the tension between the economic and moral dimensions of Marshall's definition of well-being. Marshall understands that progress would not happen without assigning a special role to families and women in cultivating family...

... choices and trade-offs between work and family, and occupational segregation dropped out of the narrative. Throughout this period, the gap was frequently misunderstood or misrepresented as reflecting the narrow sort of same-job, different-pay discrimination made illegal by the 1963 Equal Pay Act, adding...

... teaching and their secular nature as people engaged in temporal affairs who order these according to the plan of God and live in the ordinary circumstances of family and social life—in our case, economists by profession—is a challenging subject for a historian of economic thought. Copyright 2008 by Duke...

... of strangers and distant acquaintances, an individual would generally restrain the more self-indulgent and excessive passions and be more composed than in front of family and close friends. Frequent exposure to strangers fosters the habit of propriety—the basis of moral behavior. Commerce increases one's...

...Tiago Mata; Robert Van Horn This essay illuminates a neglected aspect of Friedrich Engels's life: his work at his family's textile firm, Ermen & Engels, in Manchester, the hub of the cotton industry in the mid-nineteenth century. We argue that Engels was a merchant and an intelligencer...

... colleagues, friends, and family who communicated more freely about Debreu than he himself ever could. Correspondence may be addressed to Till Düppe, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] . I gratefully acknowledge the comments I received...

... within the Menger family and their significance for Karl Menger’s intellectual development. Additionally, we consider his acquaintances with economists such as Knut Wicksell, David Davidson, and Eli Heckscher as well as the younger Menger’s work in economics. We shed new light on his editorship...

...Victor Bianchini; Nicolas Rieucau This article reproduces an unpublished letter from James Mill to Jean-Baptiste Say, dated June 6, 1821. The letter, which lays stress on the dissemination of their works and on some features of their family relation, gives new insights into an epistolary...

... are (1) the clear-cut existence of ten families of specialties, (2) the disappearance in the late 1970s of a specialty focused on general economic theory, (3) the dispersal of the econometrics-centered specialty in the early 1990s and the ensuing importance of specific econometric methods...

...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...

... Approach to Families and Households. Journal of Economic Literature 23 . 2 ( June ): 581 -608. Popper , Karl. 1969 . Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft . 3d ed. Tubingen: I. C. B. Mohr. Samuelson , Paul A. 1983 . Thünen at Two Hundred. Journal...

...: Studies of Poverty among Families with Children , 3 October , folder “SSA Research Program 1949–1960,” box 2. In Merriam Papers. ———. 1963a . Memo to Bill Capron and Burt Weisbrod , 4 December , folder “Poverty-CEA,” box 20. In Merriam Papers. ———. 1963b . Social Welfare Opportunities...

... of power led to and even required the destruction of more traditional forms of power. Most significantly, the theorists of wage slavery argued that it necessarily destroyed the patriarchal family. In this theoretical context, the wage-slavery metaphor, for all its rhetoric, cannot...

... to 23 October 1926 . International Labour Office, Studies and Reports, series N (Statistics), no. 12 . Geneva : International Labour Office . ———. 1939 . “ An International Survey of Recent Family Living Studies: I .” International Labour Review 39 ( 5 ): 662 – 705 . Jacobs Eva...