..., Quesnay's prominent patroness, in 1764, the situation changed. Quesnay's aura of power at court disappeared and with it, his writing workshop. The center of gravity of physiocracy moved from Versailles to Paris, and the workshop was gradually replaced by the physiocratic school. Correspondence may...

..., however, he reaffi rmed his support for his original defi nition of the natu- ral wage as a center of gravity for market wages, by analogy with the natu- Rejoinder to Hollander / Peach 315 ral prices of produced commodities, which is inexplicable if he had been a true...

... by Duke University Press 2017 Adam Smith astronomy morality commercial society Fontenelle Copernican system gravity References Adkins Gregory Matthew . 2000 . “When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61 ( 3 ): 433 – 52...

... of a bird, all of which exhibit the same structure. In the nine­ teenth century the economist and sociologist Henry Carey believed he had found a law which was a social homologue of the Newtonian law of universal gravity, that is, a law having the identical form as the New­ tonian law. His...

... Paradoxes (1664; in Boyle 1772). For example, to explain how it might appear paradoxical that only one force could be operative at any moment, De Quincey referred to specific gravity in “physics”: “One gravity rises through another gravity. True, it is specifically 9. These examples were the same...

... to evaluate these data, we must first pause to consider the classical Smithian notion of the rate of profit, which differs appreciably from modern conception The classical long-period conception of the rate of profit was a quantum which was a center of gravity towards which subsets...

... of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price. This gravity theory, freed of its normative aspects, was adopted...

..., but intellectual in- terest had apparently been provoked more by issues concerning the value of money than those concerning the values of individual goods. Of course, the normative issue of the just price had loomed large, and Bridel sees in Aquinas’s treatment of it early hints of the “gravity theory...

... of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price. This gravity theory, freed of its normative aspects, was adopted...

... loomed large, and Bridel sees in Aquinas’s treatment of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price...

... of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price. This gravity theory, freed of its normative aspects, was adopted...

... of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price. This gravity theory, freed of its normative aspects, was adopted...

... loomed large, and Bridel sees in Aquinas’s treatment of it early hints of the “gravity theory” that was to be a central element in the development of price theory—the idea that actual price perpetually tends under the force of compe- tition toward a center of gravity, the equilibrium price...

... Street Journal articles sometimes treated bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other cryptoassets with gravity, as if they were worthy of consideration for investment by middle-income people. As a former Journal reporter, I could think of quite a few former bosses who must have been rolling over in their graves...

... are analogous to gravity, for both are unobservable but both can be measured through their effects on, respectively, market prices and physical bodies: We can no more . . . measure gravity in its own nature than we can measure a feeling, but just as we measure gravity by its effects in the motion...

... to an approach that he thought had already existed for a long time. It was only later, not before the late 1920s, that Keynes began to be impressed with the novelty and gravity of his own contributions, as he moved toward The General Theory . The final third of Carabelli's new book contains chapters...

... on the agenda. This would entail a greater use 498 History of Political Economy 17:3 (1985) of quantitative methods and the adoption of a simple unifying principle compa- rable to Newton’s concept of gravity. Hutcheson had already outlined a hedonistic calculus that would be truly Newtonian in its...

... discussed the (meta)physics of price measurement at length, with analogies to measurement of length, weight, and balance (see especially chapters 2 and 3). Fisher’s favorite physical analogy was the center of gravity. Continu- ing shortly after the passage quoted above, he wrote: If we look...

... of the Harvard Economic Service (144–51), most notably through the London & Cambridge Economic Service. Babson, a self-promoter with no academic credentials (a collector of Isaac Newton memorabilia with a hobby of trying to overcome gravity), used his “Babsonchart” to predict business conditions...

.... That is why it is not absolutely necessary. The more secure we are in the Nancy Cartwright - Comments on Collins I5 I design of our instruments, the less need there is for reproducibility. Consider the Stanford Gravity Probe, for instance. Francis Everritt has been designing...