...Will E. Mason Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Will Mason is Professor of Economics at the Pensylvania State University. Marget on the Issue of Inconsistency in the Theories of m prices Will E. Mason I It has been...

...Ludovic Desmedt; Jérôme Blanc Far more than the problem of the quantity of money, false money was the central issue in monetary debates that occurred in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It first referred to sovereignty, in a time of state-building, as well as to a serious...

...Abraham Hirsch J. Daniel Hammond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x; 238 pp. $49.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 602 Book Reviews Theory and Measurement: Causality Issues in Milton Friedman’s Monetary Economics. By J. Daniel Hammond. Cambridge...

...Anne Mayhew By Rick Tilman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 252 pages.$59.95. Duke University Press 2000 BR.Hope32.1.bookreviews 5/4/00 1:45 PM Page 170 170 Book Reviews The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues...

...). History of Political Economy I9:2 0 1987 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/87/$1.50 Demand and relative price in Ricardo: an examination of outstanding issues Andrk Burgstaller I...

... Days. HOPE , this issue. Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds . 1992 . Washington, D.C. Stein , Bruno . 1991 . Pay-as-You-Go, Partial Prefunding, and Full Funding in American Social Security. HOPE 23...

... Helfferich 1872–1924 . Princeton. History of Political Economy 21:2 0 1989 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/89/$1.50 The Old Historical School: Roscher on money and monetary issues...

... 15 ( September ): 78 -80. ____. 1927b . Need We Be Afraid of a Job Famine? Nation's Business 15 ( January ): 22 -24. New Data, New Issues: The Origins of the Technological Unemployment Debates Gregory R. Woirol New economic data sets are not created by accident. Because...

...Gloria Vivenza Aristotle, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx: On Some Fundamental Issues in 21st Century Political Economy . By Pack Spencer J. . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2010 . ix ; 260 pp. Hardback $125.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews Henry...

...Jean-Baptiste Fleury This article investigates the expansion of the scope of economics in the 1960s. We show that the public policy problems raised by the issue of poverty reinforced the expansion, as economists became progressively involved in the social issues of the day. Until the early 1960s...

...William Thomas This article examines certain issues in postwar economic theory and compares them with related issues in the nascent fields of cybernetics, industrial dynamics, and operations research. Because all these fields had close connections to MIT, the comparison provides an opportunity...

...Neil T. Skaggs Perceptive thinkers have been writing intelligently about money for at least five centuries. However, nearly all of the early thinkers developed theories designed to explain the behavior of full-bodied metallic money or the opposite extreme, fiat money issued by governments. However...

... support. Third, the right to issue money should be monopolized by the state; otherwise, the state's monetary policy will be interfered with by other currencies. Fourth, an important monetary policy is the government's buying and selling of commodities countercyclically by issuing and receiving money, thus...

... emphasize developments in biology and psychology, for these are less familiar to historians of econometrics. These developments are interesting to contemplate, for the biometricians and psychometricians were already discussing issues associated with the respective roles of statistical analysis...

...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer; Alain Pirotte This essay focuses on the early years of panel data econometrics and two seminal papers by Yair Mundlak ( 1961 ) and Pietro Balestra and Marc Nerlove ( 1966 ). The issue of latent individual heterogeneity was identified as a central problem. One main ambition...

... policy issues that the Walrasian general equilibrium model does not address can be addressed. These include issues such as toward which basin of attraction the economy will gravitate and how government policy might influence that gravitation. Similarly, new computational technology is allowing economists...

...David Throsby In 1857 in Manchester John Ruskin delivered two public lectures which he titled The Political Economy of Art . Can these lectures be seen in the history of economic thought as prefiguring the contemporary field of cultural economics? This article considers six issues of interest...

... and welfare issues. Thereby, the article investigates how econometrics was anchored in a tension between being stated as a tool of knowledge defined within a reference to positivism on the one hand, and as a mean of changing society and creating a better world on the other. Three main issues of debate can...

... economics. I show that Viner's views on those issues and on such issues as the retention of the gold standard, money-financed versus bond-financed deficits, 100 percent reserves, the usefulness of cost cutting to combat the Depression, and rules-versus-discretion differed fundamentally from a core group...

...Sofia Valeonti Abstract This article seeks to reveal the links between Henry C. Carey's monetary theory in the greenback debate and the sectionalist issue within the US Reconstruction period. Sectionalism refers to the economic, political, and cultural differences between the North and South...