... environment serve to inform individual subjects how to produce items and the payoffs earned by items moved into their homes. Unknown to the subjects, but discoverable through repeat trials and discussion (via a “chat” space), are the possibilities for wealth creation through production, specialization...

... responded with its Brief of Arguments against Public Ownership (1913–17). Resembling a loose-leaf service for lawyers, the Brief furnished opinion leaders with more than three hundred items of evidence, some drawn from economists, about the failings of government-run enterprises. To impart lessons about...

... plan of a theoretical training of businessmen replacing or supplementing apprenticeship did not emanate from Postlethwayt. The plan is con- tained in an anonymously published booklet preserved in the Kress Library of Harvard University, an item which has the indifferent title...

... for that purpose. In order to know how to value how much our wheat is worth—as well as any other good that may be traded—it is important to know the current prices of those items on the market at the very moment we trade. The question is not to measure the so-called value inherent in goods against some...

...-nine items, approximately half fell in the pre- Christian millennium; the rest was spread around the next sixteen to seventeen centuries. Principal thinkers and policy makers include Confucius, Mo Di, Sima Qian, Mencius, Guan Chung, Dong Zhongshu, Sang Hongyang, Wang Mang, Han Fei, Wang Anshi...

... of origin and provided additional readers for items still being written in Latin. These facts are so well known that one would be ashamed to point them out again. Yet scholars, especially those interested in the history of political economy, have not drawn what seems to be the natural...

.... The bibliography as a whole is divided into three broad categories: “General Works,” “Specific Works,” and “Periods and Schools.” The first category includes 696 chronological and subject surveys of economic thought, covering many of the general histories of economic thought, plus items of somewhat more...

... Archives, item 17, Formal and Informal Histories of the Brookings Institution,1928-1966, box 1, file: Memoranda on the Early History of the Brookings Institution. ____. 1927 . Memorandum to Abraham Flexner: The Brookings Ventures at Washington . Appendix 12 to Harold G. Moulton,The History...

... in connection with Keynes. Item A In annex 1 to Donald Moggridge’s (1992, 838) biography there is an entry of 1912 referring to an otherwise unidentified sex partner as “Jew boy.” Item B In describing the policy-making atmosphere in Washington during World War II, Keynes wrote: “In the higher offices...

... of Economic Literature (JEL) maintainsa database, Econ- Lit, that can be searched by document type, year, and other qualifiers. EconLit source items on Adam Smith number more than twelve hun- dred for the period 1970–97, including 376 journal articles, 203 collec- tive volume articles, thirty-three books...

... Tri- pos at Cambridge in 1908, lectured in economics at Newnham Col- lege, Cambridge, and at Leeds and finally, in 1921, became Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where her papers are now housed. The Grier Papers contain two items of particular interest for the Marshall scholar...

... noted that in the 373 pages of the index (volume 30) to the first twenty-nine volumes of Keynes’s Collected Writings, there are surprisingly few references to budget deficits: in 746 columns of indexed items, one-tenth of one col- umn, in total, is devoted to this subject. We must not draw...

... reviews of recent edi- tions of Malthus’s Works, one on facsimile reprints of the Essay on Population, and four items on the Physiocratic elements in Malthus’s work and his treatment of agricultural protection. The final part comprises fifteen short reviews...

... of Sis- mondi for the Revue encyclopédique (1826). This important item does extend beyond the narrow money and banking framework. Say’s “Notes on Henri Storch’s Cours d’économie politique” contains remarks on the operations of the Bank of England and the Bank of France and is to be welcomed...

..., and other early economic writings. By Robert Torrens. Edited with an Introductioin by Peter D. Groenewegen. Sydney: Uni- versity of Sydney, Department of Economics, Reprints of Economic Classics, Series 2, Number 3, 1984. Pp. 79. :$A4.95. Three important items by one of the major classical...

... ones, which sometimes more resemble instructions than questions, written by Quesnay. For example, item 5 in the theme devoted to the trade of local foodstuffs reads: “The advantages of the external trade of local foodstuffs or gifts of the earth over that of manufactured goods” (Quesnay...

... entries listed by Walras: 125 numbered items, 10 unnumbered items that were unpublished at the time that Walras compiled the list, and 1 unnumbered item (entry 189 in the present bibliography) that was pub- lished for the first time in 1898 (see entry 194). It contains also three entries...

.... The Statisticat Approach O’Brien and Darnel1 select two items to represent Torrens’ works, and two items to do the same for McCulloch’s. They then test for consistency between the works of each author and the disputed arti- cle and the “Digression.” Concentrating on the “two broad classes...

... analysis to calculate relation- ships between price differentials and changes in the characteristics of goods. (Relevant characteristics are determined by their correlation with price differentials; for an item like refrigerators, these characteristics might include capacity, energy efficiency...

..., and the invention of machinery.14 Cannan traced these three items back to the article “Art” in the initial volume of the EncycZope‘die.l6 The examples given by Smith to illustrate these points, however, are not without Greek ante- cedents. He illustrates the first principle, dexterity, chiefly...