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...R. D. Freeman Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Adam Smith, Education and Laissez-Faire R. D.Freeman I HISTORIANSof economic thought have long been interested in the nature...

... and laissez-faire: economics and ideology in the Ricardian era. By Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986. Pp. 200. $34.50. This book maintains that classical political economy was just that-a mixture of theory and policy, emphasizing the normative aspects...

... : 197 -215. Evans, Peter B., Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. 1985 . Bringing the State Back In . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fine, Sidney. 1956 . Laissez Faire and the General Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865-1901 . Ann Arbor: University...

...Benjamin Kohlmann This article argues that in the 1870s philosophical, economic, and literary ideas converged on a shared problematic: the perceived crisis of laissez-faire and the emergence of new arguments in favor of state intervention in the economy. George Eliot's last novel, Daniel Deronda...

...M. L. Myers Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Mr. Myers is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, Waterbury. Philosophical Anticipations of Laissez-Faire MoE. Myers...

...: US Agricultural Statistics in the Time of Laissez-Faire Emmanuel Didier When the agricultural market began to expand nationally during the nine- teenth century in the United States, it gave rise to its evil twin: specula- tion. As early as 1863, the Lincoln administration, through its...

..., Credit, and Banking 31 ( February ): 109 -20. Why Didn’t Hayek Favor Laissez Faire in Banking? Lawrence H. White Historians of economic thought have in recent years devoted a fair amount of critical discussion to F. A. Hayek’s work on business cycle theory, and some...

... The Foundations of Laissez-Faire: The Economics of Pierre de Boisguilbert. By Gilbert Faccarello. London and New York: Routledge 1999. 198 pp. $85.00. Consider the following: All the commerce of the land, both wholesale and retail, and even agriculture, are governed by nothing other than the self-interest...

.... Frank Knight’s Case for Laissez Faire: The Patrimony of the Social Philosophy of the Chicago School Sherryl Davis Kasper Introduction Both members and observers of the so-called Chicago School of eco- nomics have highlighted the pivotal role Frank Knight assumed...

.... Knight. Volume 2: Laissez-Faire: Pro and Con. Edited by Ross B. Emmett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. vi; 459 pp. $58.00. These two handsome volumes of Frank Knight’s essays are a welcome addition for personal and university library collections of twentieth-century social science...

... American career. In particular, Ely consistently attacked laissez-faire economics for positing absolute economic laws rather than understanding the economy and economics as human enterprises subject to change. He advocated for empirical economic research as an antidote to the static premises of laissez...

... of simultaneous maxima. On this base, he criticized the laissez-faire interpretation of the Paretian theory and advanced the idea of a social welfare function, reflecting the debate on economic planning among Italian corporatist economists. Correspondence may be addressed to Mario Pomini: mario.pomini...

...Guy Numa Jean-Baptiste Say is generally portrayed as an unrelenting champion of laissez faire who believed commercial activity promoted economic well-being. However, I develop a more nuanced portrait of Say’s thinking by showing that he did not believe that free trade was an unmitigated good. He...

...Nicola Giocoli The controversy over railroad rates regulation was a fundamental component of the jurisprudential trajectory that culminated in Lochner v. New York (1905) and the so-called laissez-faire era of U.S. constitutional law. Constitutional protection of property required that regulation...

...Stefan Kolev; Ekkehard A. Köhler Abstract This article depicts the parallel evolution of the political economies of the “Old Chicago” and Freiburg schools. Both communities within the “laissez-faire within rules” research program and the long-standing “thinking in orders” tradition emerged during...

... in which verbal swords were overtly crossed could easily be- come, like much of U.S. politics, obnoxious and unattractive. (4) The problems pertaining to interpretive base were exhibited by most if not all participants; the term laissez-faire, for example, was frequently used as a primitive term...

... Political economy and laissez-faire: economics and ideology in the Ricardian era. By Rajani Kannepalli Kanth. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986. Pp. 200. $34.50. This book maintains that classical political economy was just that-a mixture of theory and policy, emphasizing...

... of the American Economic Association. American Economic Review 50 : 555 -74. Coleman, W. 2001 . The Strange “Laissez Faire” of Alfred Russel Wallace: The Connection between Natural Selection and Political Economy Reconsidered. In Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics , edited by J. Laurent and J...

... . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 References Backhouse Roger E. Medema Steven G. . 2017 . “ Laissez-Faire, Economists and,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume . link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_922...

... contra- dictory assessments. He was a champion of laissez faire; he favored substantial state economic intervention; he had no clearly defined and articulated political position at all-each of these views of Menger and the early Austrians is to be found expressed somewhere in the litera- ture. Each...