...Joachim Zweynert The article analyzes the reception of the idea of convergence in Soviet economics from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It is predominantly concerned with convergence theory as a policy idea that inspired perestroika. Its central question is: Under the conditions...

.... The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Disagreements among economists rarely breach the academy’s walls. The recent minimum-wage controversy is a significant exception. At first glance, all the sound and fury is a puzzle.1...

.../10/00 12:41 PM Page 347 On the Spread of an Idea: The Strange Case of Mr. Harrod and the Multiplier Daniele Besomi Some scientific ideas are accepted immediately, others take years to be recognized or even...

... of Political Economy . Vol. 2 . New York:Kelley. Zeuthen, F. 1932 . Das Prinzip der Knappheit,technische Kombination, und ökonomische Qualität. Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie 4 : 1 -24. Wicksell, Cassel, and the Idea of Involuntary Unemployment Mauro Boianovsky and Hans-Michael Trautwein...

...Piero Barucci Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 P, Barucci is Professor of the History of Economic Doctrines in the University of Florence. The Idea of Planning in Italian Economic Thought Piero Barucci...

... The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth. By H. W. Arndt. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1978. Pp. 161. No price listed. History of the Idea of Progress. By Robert Nisbet. New York: Basic Books, 1980. Pp. 370. $16.95. A glance at the titles of these two books would lead...

...Elizabeth Durbin Gertrude Himmelfarb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Pp. 596. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 BOOK REVIEWS The idea of poverty: England in the early industrial age. By Gertrude Himmel- farb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Pp. 596...

... competition and called for legislative intervention, Dunoyer drew the conclusion that such economies were naturally subject to alternating periods of “activity” and “relapse.” Using the innovative idea of the cycle, Dunoyer incorporated Sismondi's theory into the Sayardian conception of political economy...

...R. H. Helmholz The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription . By Armstrong Lawrin . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2016 . x; 331 pp. $75.00 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...Carl Wennerlind The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment . By Berry Christopher J. . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2013 . xii ; 216 pp. Hardback $110.00 . Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

..., since they mar a book that will otherwise be quite useful to the serious student of Edgeworth. The Johns Hopkins University PETERNEWMAN Economic development: the history of an idea. By H. W. Arndt. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp...

... economy framework to a more narrowly conceived economics, it would have been helpful to see stronger discussion of phenomena like the professionalization of the discipline, the changing nature of patronage for economic ideas, and the demand for apolitical expertise. Such context would emphasize Soll's...

...Steven G. Medema Unproductive Labor in Political Economy: The History of an Idea . By Perrotta Cosimo . London : Routledge , 2018 . xiv ; 269 pp. $160.00 . Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 References Perrotta Cosimo . 2004 . Consumption...

... for goods and the free market for ideas in the Platonic dialogues William F. Campbell The purpose of this article is to explore the alleged dichotomy between the market for goods and the market for ideas. The presentation will be based on the use of economic analogies skillfully drawn...

.... Dow N.B.: The following review was solicited by the editor and is published without the prior knowledge of the book review editor. The archaeology of economic ideas: the classical Creek tradition. By S . Todd Lowry. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 366. $54.00...

... be impossible to use those two volumes without also using Rymes’s book. Bradley W. Bateman, Grinnell College The Spread of Economic Ideas. Edited by David Colander and A. W. Coats. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvi, 262 pp. $34.50. This collection...

... of Hayek’s ideas about “scientism.” Another on methodology by Alfred Schütz connects up well with the just-mentioned Machlup essay, but again, it does not deal with Mises. Neither is Mises mentioned in an essay by Machlup on equilibrium and disequilib- rium, itself a rather standard mainstream piece...

... that supported them and the ways in which Galbraith and Friedman approached the visual representation of economic ideas. Friedman’s series drew on support from advocacy organizations and corporate interests, relayed accessible expositions via an empirical documentary style, and framed its episodes around...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Edited by S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. Leiden: Brill , 1998 . 611 pp . 2000 HOPE 32.2-08.BookReviews 5/10/00 12:42 PM Page 404 404 Book Reviews Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice...