... accounting was born out of a governmental project, implemented by institutionalist economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) during the interwar period, to manage “the business cycle.” Bridging the literatures on the history of economic policymaking of the interwar period and the postwar...

... the interwar period, as a way of understanding how his investigations in the field of national income and planning finally became an essential part of his third-way perspectives, previously formulated in corporatist terms but partially reshaped in the immediate postwar period. Particular attention is paid...

... and scientific issues. During the interwar period, editors, propagandists, and social scientists encouraged the use of visual language as an important means of spreading information and opinions about the economy to a larger audience. We explore different yet related aspects of this development by studying...

... became economics professionals, who were primarily concerned with practical economic problems and created a scene of practical pluralism of economics during the interwar period. Not all travelers were of the same quality. To judge between the good and bad traveler, further criteria are required. It can...

...Nicolas Brisset; Raphaël Fèvre This article examines François Perroux’s corporatist thought from the interwar period to the Vichy period, in the light of his travels in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Portugal from 1934 to 1935. We will show that Perroux’s critical analysis of what he called “fascist...

...Giandomenica Becchio Abstract During the interwar period, Austrian school economists played a fundamental role in establishing marginalism as a central principle of economics. In those years, the role of Mises in Vienna was especially pivotal in building up economics as a science based...

...Thomas A. Stapleford This article explores the recent history of the data revolution in economics, arguing that many of its features parallel the vision for statistical economics championed by Wesley Mitchell during the interwar period. Seeing the data revolution as kin to Mitchell’s hopes...

...Clément Levallois Today, Alchian's “Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory” (1950) is hailed by evolutionary economists as a most important piece that resumed an evolutionary brand of theorizing in economics after the eclipse of the interwar period. On the other hand, Alchian's article...

... between classes; and the relation between the state and the market, a relation that was seen in new perspectives. Morrison and Cardoso even argue that it was “a cataclysm virtually without precedent in human history” (403). However, one might also observe how different the tragic interwar period...

... two elements for late-twentieth-century historians to under- stand are the extent and dimensions of the pluralism within American economics in the interwar period. One strong indication is provided by the practical difficulty of characterizing interwar economics or econo- mists in any convincing...

.... This, according to Marschak, characterized certain prestatistical problems facing the economic statistician (6). In the interwar period, however, sta- tistical economists did not consider the data free from errors but still often considered it ill-advised to employ probability theory.11 Yet I show how 7...

... as performing? How does an investigation into their popular writings assist us in defining their status as “public intel- lectuals”? By concentrating on the popular economic material published during the interwar period, this essay seeks to draw nearer to an under- standing of the public role...

... Full Employment Act of 1945, Development (Shaw), 301 174 Fisher, Irving, 85, 252, 304 interwar period, 168. See also New American monetary economics, Deal 296–98 Employment Act of 1946, 62, 77, 174...

.... The present essay deals with the debate over the proper political and economic rationale of economic organization and state intervention in the interwar years. During this period many economists questioned the classical liberal vision of the state and explored several alternatives for the economic role...

..., N.C. : Duke University Press . Pickering A. 1995 . The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Rutherford M. 2003 . “ American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period .” In A Companion to the History of Economic Thought...

... institutionalism as a tendency in economic thought. The past is the focus of four essays (part 1, chapters 3–6) on the interwar period, a golden age of methodological pluralism when the institutionalist John Commons could make common cause with Irving Fisher around practical proposals for mone- tary reform...

.... But while the tremendous growth in resources may have been a necessary condition explaining America’s rise to eminence, it is not a sufficient one. In other disciplines, a fairly extensive literature has developed on the intellectual,migration during the interwar period. While numerically...

... of Pennsylvania Press . Arnold Thurman Wesley Douglas William O. . 1961 . Selections from the Letters and Legal Papers of Thurman Arnold . Washington, D.C. : Victor H. Kramer . Ayer Douglas . 1971 . “ The Ideological Journey of Thurman Arnold in the Interwar Period .” Stanford Law...

... in the interwar period was broken only in 1935 with the publication of a major Swedish work by Tord PalandeThe late 1930’s saw a number of American as well as German contributions to spatial economics, including the publication in 1937 of Edgar Hoover’s deservedly fa- mous book-length study...

... interpretation of the G.T. In particular there is room for a much wider study of Keynes’ thoughts in the interwar period which build up to the G.T.;it is in this that the mysteries of that work must eventually be unravelled. Let us hope that this will come out of the excellent work being undertaken...