... Economy , edited by R. H. Inglis Palgrave, 384 -87. London:Macmillan. Fisher, Irving. 1911 . The Purchasing Power of Money . London: Macmillan. ____. 1921 . The Best Form of Index Number. Quarterly Publication of the American Statistical Association 17 : 533 -51. ____. [1922] 1923...

...Claude Ménard History of Political Economy 12:4 0 1980 by Duke University Press Three forms of resistance to statistics: Say, Cournot, Walras Claude Me‘nard, Universite de Paris (Panthkon-Sorbonne...

.... History of Political Economy 23: 1 0 1991 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/91/$1 SO Epistemic Cultures: Forms of Reason in Science Karin Knorr Cetina Inside the Epistemic: Rationality and Context...

... CCC 00 18-2702/84/$1.50 Marx’s theory of money: the formative years Arie Arnon I. Introduction Many volumes have been written on Marx’s life, on his intellectual devel- opment, and on different aspects of his writings. The present study will limit itself...

...Michael T. Belongia; Peter N. Ireland Abstract “The Relative Stability of Monetary Velocity and the Investment Multiplier in the United States, 1897–1958,” by Milton Friedman and David Meiselman (1963), typically is recognized as the original study that used a reduced-form equation to evaluate...

...Eglė Rindzevičiūtė This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of “infrastructural knowledge”—that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge—that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific...

....” The article uncovers two reasons for this tension. Firstly, the tension is an effect of two different modes of engagement, namely an ethical commitment to the universal cultivation of desirable forms of character through work (the explicit goal of cooperation), and a pragmatic analysis of the comparative...

... members of two distinct schools of thought: the Groupe de Coppet, with Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant; and the less homogeneous group formed by Claude-Henri Saint-Simon, the Saint-Simonians, and Auguste Comte. Both approaches presumed that self-interest was incapable of uniting the social body...

..., the key capacities of the human mind—such as its capacity to enable people to perceive the world around them and to form plans about how to act—are emergent properties of the structured array of neurons found in the human brain. Analogously, Hayek's analysis of the market portrays the coordinative powers...

...Michael H. Turk The examination of economics from the standpoint of language and literature, part of the “linguistic turn” in economic methodology, may be extended and inverted by setting the literary elements of economics in historical perspective. In so doing, it will emerge that in the formative...

...Yann Giraud Abstract Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques...

..., showing how its context of discovery conditioned its form, the concepts Arrow used and the way he defined them, and the modeling strategy he employed. We first show that Arrow's work on scale economies was part of a research project carried out with Hollis Chenery on technology and resource allocation...

...Verena Halsmayer The essay discusses the historiographical strategy of “following artifacts” in the history of contemporary economics. Following models as artifacts means (1) to follow the shifts and changes in their form and meaning; (2) to follow the ideas, theories, fictions, and imaginary...

... but also alienation; and an educational system that emphasizes technical knowledge over the liberal arts. By considering both their shared formative, intellectual milieu and Fromm’s influence on Scitovsky, the paper casts new light on both the origins and controversial reception of The Joyless Economy...

... reduced-form model. The models’ empirical results were instrumental to theoretical and policy discussions, while the use of different statistical approaches involved methodological dispute and partly anticipated most of the issues central in the late 1970s. References Acosta Juan Pinzón-Fuchs...

... thus identified several exceptions to free international trade that justified government intervention in the form of restrictions on imports and public subsidies to domestic industries. Going beyond Adam Smith’s arguments for protective tariffs, Say maintained that government could play a role...

...David Andrews The positive/normative distinction, in its modern form, was introduced into economics by Lionel Robbins. Robbins's discussion of the distinction was provoked in part by Ralph Hawtrey's prior claim that economics cannot be dissociated from ethics. Robbins's argument has been quite...

...Giancarlo de Vivo; Gabriel Sabbagh The main aim of this article is to identify the first translator in English of Turgot’s Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses , one of the most important economic works of all time. The translation, which appeared in book form in 1793...

...Nahid Aslanbeigui; Guy Oakes In February 1933, Edward Chamberlin published The Theory of Monopolistic Competition. Joan Robinson's The Economics of Imperfect Competition followed in the spring. A disciplinary consensus quickly formed, holding that the two books represented simultaneous discoveries...

... and mathematically sophisticated) enabled productive cross-fertilization between the two approaches in their nascent forms. In the beginning Modigliani’s forward-looking procedure (with its focus on foresight) and Simon’s backward-looking model (with its focus on learning) were conceived as complementary rather than...