... a key role in McDonald's transition from documentary writer to business journalist. Game theory gave McDonald a journalistic device to discover business stories and to give those stories a driving tension; he called it a “story engine.” After decades writing with game theory, it began to serve...

... Enlightener William J. Barber Louis Uchitelle reports that journalists in recent decades have been inclined to report on economics “as if it were a science.” He further observes that the Great Recession has stimulated many of them to rethink that position. It has also spurred at least some of them...

... for selecting stories; neither do editors decide what becomes news through a rule-bound process. Journalists speak often of “news values” and “news angles,” but they are unable to codify their meaning, and create the puzzle of “a selective device [that] is un-transparent even to those who professionally most...

... Quesnay and Turgot, pos- sessed analytical and innovative minds; while others, like Du Pont, resembled economic journalists more than they did theoreticians. McLain’s study cor- rectly concludes that Du Pont was a disciple, not a pioneer. On matters of principle, he was a dogmatist who...

...—Significance of Journalistic Experience for His Economics and for His Later Life. Revue européenne des sciences socieles 30 . 1 (whole no. 92): 93 -108. Carl Menger’s Grundsatze in the Making Kiichiro Yagi The Menger Papers In May-June 1990 I had the opportunity to investigate the Carl...

... behind it a long history of uses and abuses that is activated every time one deploys it unawares. The con- cept of intellectual in its modern meaning was invented during the Drey- fus affair (1894–1906). It was not coined for analytical or diagnostic pur- poses but as a political mobilizing device...

... clandestine or open organization,” but have “moved on the literary or journalistic fringe of the party” and whose “notions of Communist doctrine and ideology usually spring from their own literary intuition . . . sometimes acute but often misleading” (see “Russia in Transition,” p. 207). Even so...

... genres of popular literature depicting urban poverty, Harriet Martineau and Henry Mayhew. Both Martineau and Mayhew were, at various points in their lives, working journalists. Mayhew first conceived London Labour and the London Poor as a series of letters to the Morning Chronicle . Martineau...

...Paul Charles Milazzo Abstract Previous scholars have described the American business journalist Henry Hazlitt as “an intellectual middleman for orthodox economics.” This article examines Hazlitt's career during the immediate post–World War II era to flesh out how he performed this intermediary role...

... things have not been equal. In what follows, I will first consider four factors that contributed to Americanization: (1) the demand for economics as a technology of de- velopment and administration; (2) the demand for the economist as a legitimizing device; (3) the demand for economics...

... of institutional economists, social scientists, philosophers, social workers, journalists, and artists alike against the dismal science created by those whom the Columbia economist Rexford Tugwell called the “classical economists.”7 Against what they saw as the overspecialization and overab- straction...

... was not the conventional one, for it involved recognizing inner circles within the elite discourse of politicians and journalists as well as between those circles and the public. This essay uses this framework, involving attempts to communicate across different boundaries, to view his well-known series of works...

... in the outpouring of hundreds of journalistic articles, essays, memoranda, testimony, radio broadcasts, and corre- spondence. These deal with issues of the times from which Keynes’ abstract theory arose and in relation to which it has real-world meaning. Keynes may have had more than one career, but he...

... to nonmonetary devices in the United Kingdom before 1979” and noted that “in a misguided effort to control inflation by nonmonetary means, governments frequently intervened in the pricing decisions” of nationalized corporations (DiCecio and Nelson 2007 : 223, 225). The Nelson-Schwartz (2007) letter...

... no longer reasons; he registers” (quoted in Daston and Lunbeck 2011, 4).1 Turning the observer into a passive registering device left little of inter- est in the notion of observation for philosophers in the logical empiricist tradition over and above what could be expressed linguistically...

... to state that his device was meant to deal with situations in which bargaining was impossible or litiga- tion impracticable. Similarly, Coase accepted that his market-based solution would not be appropriate in all circumstances. So the differences between them were not as dramatic as their headline...

... was right. The so-called Coase theorem came to be an important part of the promarket counterrevolution. But all was not as it seemed, for once again one has to read the fine print. Pigou had been careful to state that his device was meant to deal with situations in which bargaining was impossible...

... of the promarket counterrevolution. But all was not as it seemed, for once again one has to read the fine print. Pigou had been careful to state that his device was meant to deal with situations in which bargaining was impossible or litiga- tion impracticable. Similarly, Coase accepted that his market-based...

... was right. The so-called Coase theorem came to be an important part of the promarket counterrevolution. But all was not as it seemed, for once again one has to read the fine print. Pigou had been careful to state that his device was meant to deal with situations in which bargaining was impossible...

... was right. The so-called Coase theorem came to be an important part of the promarket counterrevolution. But all was not as it seemed, for once again one has to read the fine print. Pigou had been careful to state that his device was meant to deal with situations in which bargaining was impossible...