... the Atlantic trade, mercantile interests, and institutional change favoring individual property rights outside of the monarch's inner circle suggests another broader interpretation of some prominent mercantilist writers as institutional reformers. Early English Mercantilists and the Support of Liberal...

... a gradual transformation of a political and Catholic legacy. Therefore, the approach chosen comes from the works of Alfred W. Coats, John Robertson, Massimo Augello, and Marco Guidi. A second hypothesis is that economic institutions in the Spanish Enlightenment were “largely prompted from abroad” by means...

... and Windus. Knowledge, Social Institutions, and the Division of Labour. Edited by Pier Luigi Porta, Roberto Scazzieri, and Andrew Skinner. Cheltenham, U.K.:Edward Elgar, 2001. xi; 367 pp. £69.95. This is a collection of papers originally presented at an ESHET conference on in- stitutions, markets...

.... Takuo Dome, Osaka University InternationalTrade and PoliticalInstitutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century. By Fiona McGillivray, Iain McLean, Robert Pahre, and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. 242 pp. $80.00. International trade theory...

.... Book Reviews 527 Institutions in Economics. By Malcolm Rutherford. New York: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1994. xi, 225 pp. The most significant difference between neoclassical economics in the period from 1870 to 1940 as compared to the period from 1940 to 1990 is the desire...

... . Documentary History of Banking and Currency in the United States . New York: Chelsea House. Timberlake, Richard H. 1993 . Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 606 Book Reviews References Shionoya, Yuichi. 1997...

... . The Strategy of Economic Development . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press . Hirschman Albert O. 1963 . Journeys toward Progress . New York : Twentieth Century Fund . Hirschman Albert O. 1967 . Development Projects Observed . Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press...

...Kyu Sang Lee Duke University Press 2006 Ames, Edward. 1983 . Automaton and Group Structures in Certain Economic Adjustment Mechanisms. Mathematical Social Sciences 6 : 247 -60. Aoki, Masahiko. 1995 . Towards Comparative Institutional Analysis. In vol. 2 of The Makers of Modern...

...? More specifically, why does evolutionary economics,although it is based on a (biological) metaphor that arguably is more appropriate for economics than is the prevailing mechanistic metaphor,not get the attention and acclaim that it deserves? What institutions in the economics profession prevent...

... Press. Winston, Gordon C. 1999 . Subsidies, Hierarchy, and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education. Journal of Economic Perspectives 13.1 : 13 -36. Book Reviews The Economic Institutions of Higher Education. By J. Patrick Raines and Charles G. Leathers. Cheltenham, U.K...

... institutions, economic policy proposals, and the unplanned, spontaneously arisen Lombard irrigation system, underlining the impediments to its application to Ireland. He sees intelligence as the key factor of production, since economic progress depends on knowledge, both codified and uncodified. His approach...

...-Misesian” essays on institutions and historical processes, and another “assessment” section, this one with a single essay by Richard Ebeling. The thematic division is premised on the editors’ view that “Mises agreed with Weber that the purpose of theory was for doing history” so that “praxeological...

... the military coup later that year he played a key role in the founding of the State Planning Organization as well as its institutional design. The organization was meant to represent neutral expertise above political parties, along the lines of a similar planning organization in the Netherlands. This article...

... the scientific activities of input-output from the system of belief built around it, and from the institutions set up to advance Leontief's research program. This leads to considering the interaction of input-output with other research programs through three poles: the scientific debate, the collision of belief...

...: The Institutions of the European Community . Brussels: European Documentation. Padoa-Schioppa , Tommaso . 1987 . Efficiency, Stability, Equity . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Padoa-Schioppa , Tommaso . 1990 . Financial and Monetary Integration in Europe: 1990, 1992 and Beyond . Group of Thirty...

... The Economist Dupuit on Theory, Institutions, and Policy: First of the Moderns? Robert B. Ekelund Jr. Public utility is the principle, the basis, the foundation, not only for property...

...Spencer J. Pack By Nicolo De Vecchi. Translated by Anne Stone. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, l995. 192 pp. $80.00 Duke University Press 2000 BR.Hope32.1.bookreviews 5/4/00 1:45 PM Page 172 172 Book Reviews Entrepreneurs, Institutions...

...: An Institutional Basis for the Trans- formation Problem. By James Angresano. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 1997. xiii, 197 pp. £49.95. James Angresano’s previous publications include articles about transition problems in the former...