...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...

... or a Marxist interpretation, Coleman develops the thesis that early French hygienists. though "their eyes beheld the full spectrum of human degradation," tolerated rather than condemned their world on the basis of a strong faith in science and industry. In short, their peculiar neglect of ameliorative...

...Charles J. Whalen 346 History of Political Economy 26:2 (1994) The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States. By Bruce E. Kaufman. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1993. xv, 287 pp. $40.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. The field of industrial relations (IR) was born...

... Development: Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context. By Vincent Barnett. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998. xiv; 251 pp. $79.95/£50. In the West, Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev (1892–1938) is perhaps the best...

... : Jorge Pinto Books . Weintraub E. Roy . 2002 . How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . The Early Years of the MIT PhD Program in Industrial Economics Pedro Garcia Duarte Immediately after World War II graduate education in economics...

... to the industrial organization view as principally developed by Michael Porter, notably with his seminal Competitive Strategy . The aim of this examination, which includes a comparative analysis, is to deepen the historical roots of strategy, an interdisciplinary field that emerged in the 1960s. Marshall’s...

... and scholarly book. Tulane University ERSKINEMCKINLEY Work, Culture, and Society in Industrial America. By Herbert G. Gutman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Pp. 343. $12.50.1 The field of American labor history, from its beginnings at the hands...

... or re-learned from these books although it is not the one each author intended to teach. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ROYALLBRANDIS Industrial Politics. By Robert Currie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. 294. $26 .OO. The ideas which have gone toward...

..., however, to conclude that the profession should forsake all of its familiar ways and follow the Kaleckian road. University of Iowa GERALDNORDQUIST Industrial structure, capital markets and the origins of British economic decline. By William P. Kennedy...

...Charles G. Leathers; John S. Evans Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Thorstein Veblen and the New Industrial State Charles G. Leathers and John S. Evans INThe New Industrial State, John Kenneth...

...Almarin Phillips; Rodney E. Stevenson Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The historical development of industrial organization Almarin Phillips and Rodney E. Stevenson The American Econodc Association recognized industrial organi- zation gs a subdivision...

... affirmation that the laws of economics are fundamentally connected with the political prescriptions asso- ciated with laissez-faire doctrine (186). Michigan State University WARRENJ. SAMUELS Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era. By Peter Hayes. Cambridge...

... conference volume. Those unhappy with modern eco- nomic theory and looking for moral support will find it enjoyable reading. Richard A. Kleer, University of Regina Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money. By Constantine George...

...: University of Manchester Press. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity Christopher J. Berry David Hume ([1752] 1985g) employs the phrase “industry, knowledge and humanity” in his essay “Of Refi nement of Arts,” and, conjoined with that employment, are two claims...

... into what were intended to be three “companion volumes”: Industry and Trade (1919), Money, Credit, and Commerce (1923), and a fi nal volume on progress that Marshall never lived to complete. Hence all of these volumes are to be seen as part of a single intellectual construction (a construction, we...

.... 1966 . International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle. Quarterly Journal of Economics 80 . 2 : 190 -207. Viner , J. 1937 . Studies in the Theory of International Trade . New York: Harper. John Rae on Trade, Inventions, and Infant Industries: A Capital-Theoretic...

... Q 1981 by Duke University Press Veblen on owners, managers, and the control of industry: a rejoinder Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, B. C. As I read Leathers and Evans’ reply to my article’ there are two impor- tant points of difference between us. The first concerns...

...Xuan Zhao Abstract This article argues that Prussian industrialization policies implemented by Peter Beuth and Christian Rother from 1820 to 1848 worked as a kind of cameralism in practice. This argument is supported by two main points: first, Beuth, the primary Prussian industrialization promoter...

...Michael James Pierre-Louis Roederer, Jean-Baptiste Say, and the concept of industrie Michael James In The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought, Lord Robbins identifies two traditions of thought concern- ing the origins of profit. On the one...

...Malcolm Rutherford Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 History of Political Economy 12:3 @ 1980 by Duke University Press Veblen on owners, managers, and the control of industry Malcolm...