...: University of Manchester Press. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge, and Humanity Christopher J. Berry David Hume ([1752] 1985g) employs the phrase “industry, knowledge and humanity” in his essay “Of Refi nement of Arts,” and, conjoined with that employment, are two claims...

.... London: George Bell and Sons. Knowledge and Information in Economics: What Did the Classical Economists Know? Renee Prendergast In his review of the contribution of the economics of information to twentieth-century economic analysis, Joseph Stiglitz suggests that the economics of...

... of scientific research programmes.’ In I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the growth of knowledge (Cambridge). Lakatos , I. 1974 . ‘The role of crucial experiments in science.’ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 4 : 309 -25. Metzler , L. A. 1945...

... Richard Whitley. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp. 319. E22.50. From knowledge to wisdom: a revolution in the aims and methods of science. By Nicholas Maxwell. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. vi, 298. $34.95. At first sight these two books seem not simply ill-assorted, but downright...

... Knowledge and class: a Marxian critique of political economy. By Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp. vii, 352. $37.50. The title sounds like a work on false consciousness, but the book is not about that at all. The authors have nothing to...

...D. Wade Hands Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416-0140; e-mail: hands@ups.edu . Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Ashmore , Malcolm . 1989 . The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting the Sociology of Knowledge...

...John B. Davis Department of Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI 53233. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Barnes , Barry , Bloor David, and John Henry. 1996 . Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis . Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

...John Maloney The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge . By Cook Simon J. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xviii ; 331 pp. $90.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews From...

... downward movement. The most persistent theme in the last two-thirds of the book is the indecency of European countries, prominently France, toward the U.S. Institut National de la Statistique et JACQUES MELITZ des Etudes Economiques, Paris Knowledge and Ignorance in...

... Press of Mississippi . Samuelson Paul A. 1948 . Economics . New York : McGraw-Hill . Secord James A. 2004 . “ Knowledge in Transit .” Isis 95 ( 4 ): 654 – 72 . Seixas Peter . 1987 . “ Lewis Hine: From ‘Social’ to ‘Interpretive’ Photographer .” American...

...Roger E. Backhouse Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature . Edited by Solovey Mark Cravens Hamilton . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . 288 pp. Hardcover $95.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References...

...Tiziano Raffaelli Handbook of Knowledge and Economics . Edited by Arena Richard , Festré Agnès , and Lazaric Nathalie . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2012 . 530 pp. Hardback $260.00 . Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews The Great Persuasion...

... Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. Oxford:Clarendon Press. 708 Book Reviews A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxv...

...Esther-Mirjam Sent Edited by Robert F. Garnett Jr. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. 259 pp. Cloth $90.00; paper $29.99. 2001 Book Reviews 385 What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge. Edited by Robert F. Garnett...

..., Elizabeth. 1952. The Field of Nonsense. London:Chatto 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...

.... Mill, John Stuart. 1895. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Ap- plications to Social Philosophy. In two volumes, from the fifth London edition. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge. Edited by Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and...

.... Book Reviews 553 Economics and the Philosophy of Science. By Deborah A. Redman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 252 pp. $39.95. Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. By Robert N. Proctor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 331 pp. $34.95. These books...

...J. Barkley Rosser, Jr Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics . By Mirowski Philip Nik-Khah Edward . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 312 pp. $34.95 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References...

... knowledge and economic science: Marshall’s interpretation of the classical economists George Argyrous One view of the development of science is that it is a process of accre- tion of proven facts, theories, and methods. This can be termed a “growth of knowledge” (GOK) theory of scientific...

...E. Roy Weintraub Correspondence may be addressed to E. Roy Weintraub, Department of Economics,Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0097. Duke University Press 2001 Corry, L. 1989 . Linearity and Reflexivity in the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge. Science in Context 3.2 : 409 -40...