...: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paint Media Re-examined. National Gallery Technical Bulletin 15 : 64 -77. Young , Edward . [1759] 1966 . Conjectures on Original Composition . Leeds: Scolar Press. Young , Hilary . 1995 . The Genius of Wedgwood . London: Victoria and Albert Museum. Ingenuity...

... are characterized by their ingenuity; second, that a nation of such people, with such abundant land and separated from the institutions and antagonisms of Europe, needs a different system of economic ideas for understanding its development prospects; third, that any apt system of ideas must spotlight the role...

... the “active, reflective” use of the mind might be. De Marchi and Van Miegroet show that ingenuity was important to the value of works of art in eighteenth-century Great Britain. Ingenuity, “the successful composing of apparently unconnected elements and notions into new products and systems of ideas...

...Neil De Marchi Correspondence may be addressed to Neil De Marchi, Department of Economics, Duke University, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References De Marchi Neil . 2006 . Smith on Ingenuity, Pleasure, and the Imitative Arts...

... . Edited by J. L. Cranmer-Byng. London: Longman. McKendrick , N. , J. Brewer, and J. H. Plumb. 1982 . The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialsiation of Eighteenth-Century England . London: Europa. Pagani , C. 1993 . “Eastern Magnificence and European Ingenuity”: Clocks...

...: their form, color, rarity, and ingenuity of design and manufacture (their “imitation”) (Smith 1982, 337; LJ B, 488). Smith is here principally concerned with objects of “art,” mean- ing goods contrived, rather than naturally available to us. Taste and criticism enter because the sensual and mental...

... ground for both liberty and opulence to flourish. The escape from poverty and the emancipation from domination enabled the entire population to par- ticipate in the march of progress, exhibiting greater industriousness, ingenuity, and moral refinement. Although most vividly articulated by Adam...

... own a few tools, a plot of land, or a workshop-just enough to support a family5 The concept of industrie, however, embraced the ideas of both property and labor, the implication being, in the light of the original meaning of the term, that the human qualities of ingenuity and skill...

...: “Economic theory, divorced from its functional relations to economic problems, or with those relations obscured, is no better than an interesting intellectual game. It gives endless opportunities for dialectical ingenuity, but it cannot advance knowledge” (see Economicu, O.S. 8, 1928, 4-5...

... capitulated and sat down to write a new book, The general theory; Hayek thought that Keynes would eventually change his mind about this book as he had changed his mind about the earlier one, so that all he had to do was to wait. I think that this account, offered in 1947, is ingenuous, being a rationalization...

... curve. Then the Marshallian offer curve is generated from these Mill/Whewell international supply and demand curves (83-91). Though no explicit historical evidence proves that Marshall took this route to develop the offer curve, the geometrical ingenuity displayed by Creedy and the logic...

... not been without apprehensions, that some person would exercise his ingenuity in applying it to a defence of war; and I was rather anxious for an opportunity of stating, that no such use could be made of it with the slightest resemblance of just reasoning. War being, generally speaking...

..., or the ingenuity of this supposed labour of inspection and direction. They are regulated altogether by the value of the stock employed, and are greater or smaller in proportion to the extent of this stock” (WN,66). 540 History of Political Economy 31:3 (1999) analysis of the source of value...

..., let alone that of Phillips himself. James Meade thought that Phillips was the “nearest to a person of genius that I have known” (quoted by David Vines, Leeson 2000, 39); his machine has been described as “the ultimate in Kiwi ingenuity” (a comment posted on the New Zealand Reserve Bank website...

.... the positivists. It might be more accurate to say that economics reflects not a positivist theory of knowledge but an excess of intellectual cleverness and ingenuity which created spurious problems and spurious solutions. If this is even partly true, it follows that to counter economic cleverness...

... seems to be in line with this latter emphasis. This will be the topic of sections 3 and 4. Even if bent and socially shaped, individual passions and drives do not disappear. They remain the inner source of human ingenuity. Mandeville’s main claim to novelty lies exactly in answering...

... of work will not always alone determine this proportion. The different degrees of hardship endured, and of ingenuity exercised, must likewise be taken into account. There may be more labour in an hour’s hard work than in two hours’ easy business [Smith 198 I, 481. Smith goes...

... might add around 0.8 percent per year to TFP growth, which would change the detail but not the substance of this point. 212 Nicholas Crafts Table 5 Ingenuity and Abstention in the Shift to Modern Economic Growth (% per year) Labor Productivity Capital Deepening Growth...

... for this superior hardship; and the produce of one hour’s labour in the one way may frequently exchange for that of two hours labour in the other. (I.vi.2) Allowance will also be made for labor that differs in “dexterity and ingenuity.” As Smith remarks: In the advanced state of society, allowances...

... . . . to abridge or facilitate’’ particular tasks is linked directly to the division of labor, as it is in the Wealth of Nations, and note also that “human ingenuity . . . continues to move with an equal pace,” a clear statement of the continued advance of technology. Like Smith, Ferguson (Essay, 143...