...William Darity, Jr. Hans Christoph Binswanger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x, 131 pp. Cloth, $21.50. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews Money and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust. By Hans Christoph...

... man is held to be equipped with a second propensity, which becomes an engine of progress. Man is viewed here as Faustian, never satisfied with conditions as they are and always eager fbr improvement. With Goethe’s Faust, he will never cling to any moment’s happiness but look for new worlds...

... ): 179 – 84 . Newman M. E. J. 2010 . Networks: An Introduction . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Schabas Margaret . 1992 . “ Breaking Away: History of Economics as History of Science .” History of Political Economy 24 ( 1 ): 187 – 203 . Wassermann Stanley Faust...

... and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe's Faust. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bonny, Richard. 1991 . The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Braddick, Michael. 2000 . State Formation in Early Modern England: c. 1550-1700...

....” Economics, on the other hand, involves thinking participants, not base metals. There are “easily influenced by theories and therefore highly susceptible to the methods of alchemy.” This statement can virtually be under- stood as a comment on Goethe’s Faust. (ix–x) Binswanger is rather...

... Smith's Universalism. In Essays on Adam Smith, edited by A. S. Skinner and T. Wilson. Oxford: Clarendon. Dunbar , Robin . 1991 . Foraging for Nature's Balanced Diet New Science 131 . 1784 : 21 -24. Faust , Beatrice . 1991 . Apprenticeship in Liberty. Sydney: Angus & Robertson...

.... By comparing the two different objective functions, equations (6) and (lOa), the difference in economic content becomes obvious. Both formu- lations claim to maximize rent. Without further proof we can use the Faust- mann-Hirshleifer-Samuelson criterion as the yardstick by which other solutions have...

.... In the natural resource economics literature, the discovery of forest valuation and optimal forest rotation principles that conform with modern capital and investment theory—the Faustmann formula and the Faust- mann condition—has traditionally been credited to Martin Faustmann (1849b) and Max Robert...

..., renowned as the Iron Chancellor, is reported to have said that “Faust complained that he had two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes as in a republic” (Steedman and Krause 1986, 197). Though in Smith’s conception man might not be visualized as so complex a creature, his...

... of the Faust drama in economic terms. Work in Ph.D. dissertations has ranged widely. For instance, J. X. Kraus (2000) wrote on the Stoa and its influ- ence on physiocracy andAdam Smith, and C. Baloglou (1995) addressed early mathematical economics in Germany. There were also projects: a group around G...

.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Galsworthy , John 1931 . Maid in Waiting . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Goethe , Johann Wolfgang von. 1949 . Faust: Part 1 . Translated from the German by Philip Wayne. New York: Penguin. Homan , Paul T. 1928 . Contemporary Economic...

... in Zurich in 1953, the head of this institute, Albert Hunold, who was at the same time the secretary-general of the Mont Pèlerin Society, wrote a short introduction. Not very surprisingly, Hunold started with the famous quotation from Goethe’s Faust I that Hahn had “two souls in his breast.” “When...

..., Marx’s tenuous relationship with the New York Trib- une was finally severed in that year. In August of 1862 Marx wished that he knew how to start a business (Max to Engels, 20 Aug. 1862, in Marx and Engels 1973, 30:280). He continued, paraphrasing Faust, “Gray, dear friend, is all theory...