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...Jon Cohen Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Karl Marx, Greatness and Illusion . By Jones Gareth Stedman . Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2016 . xvii; 750 pp. $35.00 . ...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Modern models of economic growth and capitalist modernity rest on capital accumulation, inclusive institutions, and various often unquantifiable aspects of “culture” (to which institutions belong). Scholars have also pinpointed the ability, or rather illusion, of human...

... by the Church Peace Union, was followed by two books and many articles by Fisher urging US entry into the League of Nations. Fisher’s efforts to educate the public about “money illusion” led him for several years to write a weekly newspaper column to accompany the announcement of the weekly price index...

.... Albert . 1949 . The economics of illusion . New York: Squire. Reprinted Wells, Ver.: Fraser, n.d. Hahn , L. Albert . 1952 . Predicting the unpredictable. The Freeman 3 ( 6 October ): 23 -24. Hahn , L. Albert . 1956 . Common sense economics . London: Abelard-Schuman. Halm...

...J. Patrick Gunning Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 References Fisher , Irving 1914 . Why the dollar is shrinking . New York. Fisher , Irving 1928 . The money illusion . New York. Frydman , Roman , Gerald O'Driscoll, and Andrew Schotter 1982...

... Illusione nelle Entrate Pubbliche, published in 1897, in which he anticipates the more general treatment of the issue of fiscal illusion presented six years later in his Teoria della Illusione Finanziaria. Following a different theoretical approach to public finance with re- spect to De Viti de...

... . 1958 . “ The Friedman-Becker Illusion: Supplementary Comment .” Journal of Political Economy 66 ( 6 ): 547 – 49 . Friedman Milton . 1959 . “ The Demand for Money: Some Theoretical and Empirical Results ”. Journal of Political Economy 67 ( 4 ): 327 – 51 . Friedman Milton...

... strand of interpretation is that non-market-clearing money wages and involuntary unemployment ultimately depend in Keynes’s system on irrationality. ’ Workers, it is said, suffer from “money illusion.” This view is important as an early reaction to The General The- ory. Economists have never...

... was necessary to sustain the individual effort required for the progress of society. In The theory of moral sentiments he argues that our self-love acts for the social benefit only because of an illusion of Nature. Providence imposes deception upon us, and we conduce to serve the interest of society...

... illusion: they would not accept a flexible wage policy but might well accept a flexible money policy. Pedersen, by contrast, explicitly saw the nominal wage rate as a labor- union policy instrument and saw no money illusion. By raising the nom- inal wage rate, unions could raise the real one...

...William J. Barber Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Angell Norman . 1912 . The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage . 3d ed. New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons . Angell...

... to be confirmed. For it is maintained that this second position “suffers from both conceit and an illusion.” The “conceit” is that “what we know is probably true, because past error has been corrected.” I fail completely to see why, if we hold this second position, we should necessarily be guilty...

... . Compensating Reactions to Compensatory Spending. American Economic Review 35.1 : 28 -39. ____. 1949a . Economics of Illusion: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy . New York: New York Institute of Finance. ____. 1949b . Die Grundirrtümer in Lord Keynes' General Theory...

... and Reputations: The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and the History of Economic Thought. HOPE , this issue. Kitcher , Philip . 1993 . The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Knorr Cetina , Karin . 1991 . Epistemic...

..., the planning allocation cannot be realized either. This is because some individuals have illusions about their entrepreneurial abil- ities. Instead of basing his decision on his actual production function, this type of individual bases it on what may be called a “virtual” pro- duction function...

... that inhere in individuals alone. IV. Marx: The Viewpoint of Exchange The recognition of our industrial age as one of illusion, an age with- out passion or commitment; the sense that such illusions not only ob- scure our social circumstances but also prevent us from perceiving...

.... It is a mark of intellectual poverty to know only one’s own time and place. One of the principal problems in learning indeed is how to destroy the illusions of perspeotive, the belief that faraway things are in fact small. We do this inn the physical world through movement, which soon reveals...

... and of the welfare state in many European countries. He appreciates the discussion of objective illusions: one may believe workers and capitalists participate in free exchange, but you may perceive things differently when considering the bargaining power of the worker—whether a poor worker is actually “free...

... . Elementary Principles of Economics. New York: Macmillan. Fisher , I. 1913 . The Purchasing Power of Money, rev. ed. New York: Macmillan. Fisher , I. 1928 . The Money Illusion. New York: Adelphi. Fisher , I. 1930 . The Theory of Interest. New York: Macmillan. Foster , W...

... Economic Journal 56 . 3 : 616 -27. Collard , D. A. 1981 . A. C. Pigou, 1877-1959. In Pioneers of Modern Economics in Britain , edited by D. P. O'Brien and J. R. Presley. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 105 -39. Dillard , D. 1988 . The Barter Illusion in Classical and Neoclassical...