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... to be called the Silicon Valley. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Stanford University economics engineering management science institutional dynamics We are grateful to Pedro Duarte and Yann Giraud, Al Roth, two referees, and the participants in the 2019 HOPE conference...

... a failed trial at the University of Wisconsin, his ambitious microsimulation finally succeeded at the Urban Institute, constituted as the Dynamic Simulation of Income Model. Since the late-1970s, microsimulation have been used to understand the economic consequences of welfare and redistributive policies...

.... This article focuses on the story of one group created by the control engineer Mark Aizerman at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow. It discusses the origins and the outstanding diversity and dynamics of the group’s research agenda, reconstructs the factors that made Aizerman turn from the cybernetics...

... on the theory and methods of econometrics given by Frisch at the Poincaré Institute at the University of Paris in 1933, as well as extensive lecture notes from Yale University in 1930. These largely unknown documents elaborate on Frisch's scientific views, how he aimed at modeling economics on physics...

... point of his research on the institutional dynamics of the modern university. Thus the adversary of teleological thinking in history appears, improbably, in the guise of a teleological historian. In sum, by the beginning of World War II in 1939, Tribe's construct of LSE in the 1930s—marked...

... history of economics. It seeks to draw attention to the way that the dynamics of university institutions have generated the very issues for which economists today are criticized—their devotion to rationalistic rather than empirical argument; their reliance upon simple nostrums, expressed in technical...

...-Forecasting Simulations, Part I: Industrial Dynamics and Management Pedagogy at MIT .” Science in Context 22 ( 2 ): 245 – 70 . Tidman Keith R. 1984 . The Operations Evaluation Group: A History of Naval Operations Analysis . Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press . Wagner Harvey M...

..., with a thesis on mathematical dynamics (1951). 2 While holding regular appointments at the university, Nachbin and Peixoto sought to develop research activities at IMPA. The institute's initial activities were mainly research seminars and short, advanced courses targeted at young scholars and talented...

... (such as the existence and stability of general equilibrium or the ways to conceptualize and apply to economics the techniques of linear and nonlinear optimization), was being prepared before the war. The intellectual and institutional dynamics of mathematical economics depended on the mutual awareness and collaboration...

.... Krass was a mathematical economist who did some work in economic dynamics and turnpike theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the Sibe- rian branch of the Academy of Sciences (see Krass 1976). McKenzie (who 18. As he recollects, El-Hodiri also showed to Hurwicz Pontryagin’s book on optimal...

....: The Brookings Institution. Holt, C. C., and F. Modigliani. 1961 . Firm Cost Structures and the Dynamic Responses of Inventories, Production, Work Force, and Orders to Sales Fluctuations. In Inventory Fluctuations and Economic Stabilization. Part 2, Causative Factors in Movements of Business Inventories...

.... ———. 2007 . Capital, Innovation, and Growth Accounting. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 23.1 : 79 –93. Azariadis, Costas, and Leo Kaas. 2007 . Is Dynamic General Equilibrium a Theory of Everything? Economic Theory 32.1 : 13 –41. Begg, David K. H. 1982 . The Rational Expectations Revolution...

... University Press 1999 References Abalkin , L. 1992 . The Scientific Heritage of N. Kondratiev and Contemporaneity: Report to the International Scientific Conference Devoted to the 100th Birth Anniversary of N. Kondratiev . Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics...

....: Prentice Hall. Caplow , Theodore . 1989 . Peace Games . Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. Cartwright , D. , and A. F. Zander, eds. 1953 . Group Dynamics: Research and Theory . Evanston, Ill.: Row Peterson. Cohen , Albert K. 1959 . The Study of Social Disorganization...

... of societal dynamics is a-type of social theory Werner Stark classified in The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought (1963) as society as a process, and is similar in its outlook to what is now being called eco- nomic sociology. (In his Economy and Society, Robert J. Holton provides an ex- cellent...

... Institute, 1920–28 .” Europe-Asia Studies 47 , no. 3 : 413 – 41 . Barnett Vincent . 199. Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Economic Development: Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context . Basingstoke, UK : Macmillan . Barr K. 1979 . “ Long Waves: A Selective...

... be explained in terms of its impact upon the income velocity of money. Financial institutions are able “to accommodate the needs of trade” through their creation of new types of financial liabilities. This is Rousseas’ major contribution, and he uses this point to criticize both neoclassical formula...

.... 1933 . Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems in Dynamic Economics. In Economic Essays in Honour of Gustav Cassel . London: George Allen & Unwin. International Statistical Institute. 1965 . Bibliography on Time Series and Stochastic Processes . Edited by Herman Wold. Cambridge: MIT Press...

...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...

... in Princeton as well as his reading of Walras’s, Wicksell’s and Cassel’s work would be key. I also explain how he came to realize that there existed a formal analogy between systems of linear equations and inequalities with which he characterized (stationary and dynamic) economies and the minimax theorem...