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...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...

...: 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 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 . ‘Stability...

... 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 Quarterly 39 ( 3...

... of 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...

.... 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...

... methodologists largely have ignored the economic dimen- sions of science, knowledge, and epistemology. Nicholas Rescher’s monograph, Cognitive Economy, represents an important attempt to thoroughly integrate eco- nomic considerations within the theory of knowledge. Rescher’s work maintains...

.... Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth: On Universities and the Wealth of Nations. By W. W. Bartley 111. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1990. xx, 3 15 pp. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth (hereafter UKUW) was authored by the late William Bartley, one of Karl Popper’s...

...Yann Giraud The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century . By Csiszar Alex . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2018 . xi ; 376 pp. $45.00 . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 References Cahuc Pierre...

... the Hungarian statistical works and debates integrate and feed back into the broader European discourse of Cameralism and the role of “useful knowledge” in making the modern (industrial) economies. It points out the role of statistics in the assessment of the real production value and productivity...

...Mauro Boianovsky; Harro Maas In order to examine the historical relations between travel and economic knowledge, we, as editors of this special issue, decided in 2019 to organize a conference at the University of Lausanne to contribute to a growing literature in the history and philosophy...

...Hsiang-Ke Chao Abstract The history of the transmission of Western knowledge to China—Western Learning or Xixue —usually revolves around travelers. What is unmentioned, however, is that the identity of the two types of Chinese travelers of economic knowledge evolved throughout the Western Learning...

...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...

...Eglė Rindzevičiūtė This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of “infrastructural knowledge”—that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge—that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific...

...Till Düppe; Ivan Boldyrev Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945 89: Editors Introduction Till Düppe and Ivan Boldyrev One...

... economists as András Bródy and, particularly, János Kornai. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. patronage patron-client relations the power and knowledge nexus under...

.... 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 Economics. By T. W...

...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...