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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 39–52.
Published: 01 December 1995
... and Bayes' Theorem. Statistical Science 7 :358-68. Jeffreys, Fisher, and Keynes:
Predicting the Third Observation,
Given the First Two
Teddy Seidenfeld
During three years, from 1932 through 1934, the Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London was the setting for a stimulating, five...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 361–382.
Published: 01 June 2010
... politico/economic question: what is the best way of life? Historians of economic thought in particular have taken the work at face value and, with few exceptions, have given it short shrift. Other scholars within the humanities have examined it more seriously and at greater length, a few even raising...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 270–293.
Published: 01 December 2020
... experimental economics—something that, given the ideological and intellectual constraints Aizerman was facing, was hardly possible in the Soviet context, but could have been a synthesis of economics and engineering. The article also discusses a research culture Aizerman created and nurtured in his lab...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 143–162.
Published: 01 March 2009
... primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherited by the human race through evolution. Given primitive probabilities, no other devices than the rules of calculus of probabilities...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (1): 21–73.
Published: 01 March 2010
... on the theory and methods of econometrics given by Frisch at the Poincaré Institute at the University of Paris in 1933, as well as extensive lecture notes from Yale University in 1930. These largely unknown documents elaborate on Frisch's scientific views, how he aimed at modeling economics on physics...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (Suppl_1): 334–355.
Published: 01 December 2009
... that after Solow's seminal contribution, the “residual” became a reproducible object. Losing its ties with the intentions and beliefs of its originator, it was given new and unexpected uses in other branches of macroeconomics. While the residual had always remained a problematic result in growth accounting...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (1): 191–219.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on its own ground, which is the fascinating and unique aspect of the book. In the discussion he also works out some principles of social philosophy. Capital is underplayed: the only original all-important production factor is land. The importance given to the right of private property in land...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 425–481.
Published: 01 September 2018
... meanings of a given lexical world the Alceste method analyzes interpretable segments of text, called “context units.” Correspondence may be addressed to Beatrice Cherrier at [email protected] Aurélien Saïdi at [email protected] . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (4): 709–733.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., persistent accusations of an antiprogress bias, and the provision of few details about policy applications, the machine tax proposals faded rapidly after 1940. Given familiarity with an active government role in economic policy and knowledge about taxes as tools of these policies, it should not be a surprise...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 193–210.
Published: 01 December 2018
... relatively simple to relatively complex measurement systems. This article charts these changes using both the oral interview histories and retrospective book accounts given by those involved with the United Nations Development Programme and offers an analysis of their “political economy of numbers...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (4): 731–751.
Published: 01 August 2019
... reipublicae ,” which has been freely translated as the healing power of society. This article aims to explain the meaning and significance given by Malthus in his theory of population to these two concepts. Their essential role in preventing or remedying overpopulation does not seem to have received adequate...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 441–466.
Published: 01 June 2024
... of visual analysis that helped clarify concepts and resolve definitional issues, at a time when interest in various economic traditions had not yet given way to attempts to systematize and unify economic knowledge and its standards of production. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (5): 909–935.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Charles R. McCann, Jr.; Vibha Kapuria-Foreman Abstract Much has been written about the philosophy of social control, particularly as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Yet little if any appreciation has been given to the work of James MacKaye and Helen Sumner...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (2): 255–285.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Michael McLure This study reports on the light that documents stored in the Archive Centre at King's College, Cambridge, shed on A. C. Pigou's fellowship theses. Particular consideration is given to Walter Alexander Raleigh's and Brooke Foss Westcott's assessments of Pigou's first, and unsuccessful...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 523–548.
Published: 01 September 2013
... has been done previously. In particular, it is shown that a London-based editor and book reviewer, John Houghton, should be given credit for being perhaps the first who explicitly recognized the opportunity cost of forest capital. In his writings, published in 1683 and 1701, Houghton compared forestry...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (2): 307–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... possible government are unimodal: if the ideal, austere regime such as Sparta (with equal property for all, and focused on virtue-in-arms) is not achievable, one should prefer the given stratified society, partial and non-virtue-directed redistribution being the worst option. Correspondence may...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 26–61.
Published: 01 December 2008
.... Political and civil liberty was not a central matter for these writers. Instead, they favored the creation of organizations capable of regulating a chaotic social order, and in this perspective new forms of religion were given a prominent place, specifically formed to suit the industrial social order...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 5–31.
Published: 01 December 2011
... scientific values. As such, the histories written by econometricians reflect the scientific image of their discipline in a given period. Each image of a period is drawn by denominating forerunners and founding fathers and uses the language of the dominant philosophy of science of that day. At the end...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 109–139.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Olav Bjerkholt; Ariane Dupont-Kieffer The title hints at the attention given to the lack of probability considerations in the econometric work of the recognized pioneer of econometrics, Ragnar Frisch. Clues to a better understanding of his position may be found in his comprehensive archive...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Marina Bianchi; Neil De Marchi This introduction traces the connections between economics and psychology that were explored in a 2015 conference on the subject held at Duke University. Over much of the past half-century, sporadic attention has been given to the possible links between economics...
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