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...J. Barkley Rosser, Jr Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics . By Mirowski Philip Nik-Khah Edward . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 312 pp. $34.95 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References...

... 351 pp. $52.50. Information, Social Relations, and the Economics of High Technology. By Michael Perelman. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991. vii, 242 pp. $49.95. There is a strange fascination to the subject of technology. Academics and intel- lectuals feel licensed to speak or write about...

... extended, particularly at the RAND Corporation. Working on such matters, Kenneth Arrow took a keen interest in testing as a paradigm for information gathering in economic decision-making and in encouraging investment in R&D as an information-gathering exercise essential to making informed choices...

.... Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2000 . The Contributions of the Economics of Information to Twentieth Century Economics. Quarterly Journal of Economics 115.4 : 1441 -78. Tucker, Josiah (Dean). 1749 . A Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages, Which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain...

...Thomas Delcey; Guillaume Noblet Abstract This article offers a historical analysis of American interwar agricultural economists and their interest in information. Believing that the main problem facing farmers was a lack of information, agricultural economists designed an information policy aiming...

...) History of Economic Analysis, a Guide to Information Sources. By William K. Hutchinson. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1976. Pp. 243. $18.00. Men and Ideas in Economics, a Dictionary of World Economists, Past and Present. By Ludwig H. Mai. Totowa, New Jersey...

... sensitive to this fact, George’s ideas may yet gain some of the respect that Cord believes they deserve. University of Northern Iowa KEN MCCORMICK The visual display of quantitative information. By Edward R. Tufte. Cheshire, Conn. 06410 (Box 430): Graphics Press, 1983. Pp...

... -209. Some new information on the Rev. T. R. Malthus Thanks to the etl'orts of Malthus' main biographers-Otter ( 1836). Empson ( 1837). Bonar ( 1924). and James ( 1979)-a considerable amount of intormation has already been made available on his life as a clergyman of the Church...

... . L'influence de Gustave de Molinari sur Léon Walras. Cahiers du CERAS 4 (April): 145 -57. ———. 2006 . Information et allocation efficace des ressources dans une économie décentralisée: Organisation des marchés chez Turgot et Gustave de Molinari. Cahiers d'économie politique 50 : 87 -101...

.... ____. 1885 . La comptabilité: Théorie, pratique, et enseignement . Paris: Librairie Illustrée. Medbery, James Knowles. 1870 . Men and Mysteries of Wall Street . Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. Preda, Alex. 2004 . Informative Prices, Rational Investors: The Emergence of the Random Walk...

... useful suggestions and information. A previous version of this article was presented in November 2000 at a workshop titled“Financial Cultures” organized at the University of Bielefeld,Germany. Agnew, Jean-Christophe. 1986 . Worlds Apart:The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550...

... of the long-run growth in fertilizer use by US farmers. In this research Griliches developed theoretical explanations of these phenomena in the form of narratives of rational, profit-seeking people responding to changing circumstances and novel information, and he used these narratives to inform his decisions...

.... The shift from “Keynesian economics” to “new classical economics” is based on a shift from a control engineering approach to an information engineering methodology. This “revolution” was even more radical; it also changed the epistemology and ontology of macroeconomics. The ontology of information...

... planning. This innovative approach, very different from the styles of reasoning in mathematical economics of his time, was grounded in his work on pattern recognition and informed by a cybernetic vision of control as information processing and communication in complex systems. Copyright © 2019 Duke...

...Mary S. Morgan This article investigates the role played by narrative in drawing inferences from statistics before the adoption of formal inference regimes in economics. Two well-known, and exemplary, cases of informal inference provide the materials. Nikolai Kondratiev’s struggles to make...

... the Talmud's differential valuation of the same asset by multiple claimants. Modern contingent claims analysis is able to explain differential valuation by invoking market imperfections such as transactions costs and asymmetric information. We conjecture that market imperfections lie behind the Talmud's...

...Maria Grafström Abstract This article explores how economic information was turned into newsworthy content in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s. Professional norms and identities of “business journalists” were during the 1960s yet to be developed, and there were concerns raised whether issues about...

... how the shared identification of uncertainty as a major problem, their similar interpretation of rationality as the ability to select and use relevant information, and their embrace of certain methodological norms for the construction of economic theory (that it should be empirically grounded...

...Claire Wright This article constructs a social network, based on informal seminar attendance, for intellectuals living and working in Vienna in the 1920s. A range of primary and secondary sources has been used to compile a dataset on the duration, operation, and membership of informal seminars...

...Sylvie Lupton This article highlights the contributions of early economic thought to quality uncertainty. Both Roman law regarding fraud and medieval thinkers (such as Vacarius, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Astesanus of Asti) scrutinized asymmetric information and shared uncertainty...