... of Politicul Economy 22: I 0 1990 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/90/$1.50 Giffen goods and the subsistence level Charles van Marrewijk and Peter A. G. van Bergeijk The upward-sloping demand curve of a Giffen good...

... -80. Gilbert , J. C. 1955 . Changes in Productivity and the Price Level in a Closed Economy. Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research 8 : 61 -79. Hawtrey , Ralph 1933 . Speculation and Collapse in Wall Street. In The Art of Central Banking , by Ralph Hawtrey. London...

.... Barro , Robert J. 1978 . ‘Unanticipated money output and the price level in the United States.’ Journal of Political Economy 86 ( Aug. ): 549 -80. Barro , Robert J. , and Mark Rush 1980 . ‘Unanticipated money and economic activity.’ In Fischer 1980 . Blaug , Mark 1980...

... to modernize economics, and this at three levels. First, the paper shows the ways in which around 1930 Wilson was key, at the nationwide level, in the constitution of the first organized community of American mathematical economists, which he established within the well-recognized scientific community...

...Poornima Paidipaty In October of 1960, shortly after the conclusion of India’s Second Five- Year Plan , Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru convened a high-level expert panel to investigate whether the fruits of recent economic growth had been equitably distributed across the country, or whether...

...Carlo Cristiano; Paolo Paesani This paper provides a contextual analysis in which Phillips 1958 is seen as part of a wider research effort, aimed at exploring how to reconcile price stability with levels of unemployment that, while low in absolute terms, were higher than those prevailing in Britain...

... “love of system” (the fascination with well-crafted contrivances) as the main spur to material acquisitiveness; by using the empty formulation that “all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level” without specifying which level they are “nearly upon”; and by introducing a contented beggar, who...

... and measurable. Are the subjective aspects of the production decision reconcilable with the objective aspects of the policy decision in Coase's analysis? I shall argue that the framework he adopts is objectivist or subjectivist depending on the nature of the criticism he is leveling against standard theory...

... and statistics in economics coincided with his promotion of his “compensated dollar” plan to stabilize price levels by varying the gold price of currencies, provoking suspicion that his proposed intergovernmental conference and scholarly society were intended to promote his monetary plan. In addition to his...

... framework so as to respond to the criticisms leveled by institutional economists against the marginal analysis of labor markets. In doing so, Becker attempted to redefine the relationship between economists and other social scientists. Third, we study the reaction to Becker’s redefinition of disciplinary...

..., loosely organized and widely spread across the United States, the machine tax movement evolved from conversations among friends and letters to the editor in local newspapers to policy proposals at the federal level. The grassroots effort ultimately failed. In the context of the rise of Keynesian analysis...

.... The second, technical norms, was a long-term project initiated by the socialist state to design norms based on workers’ physical capacity in order to extract the greatest amount of effort most efficiently. In both cases, wages were set according to the level of exertion expended by the worker, not by output...

... production and market exchanges in a socialist economy. The story suggests that Soviet economic discourse was neither homogeneous nor stable. Rather, it consisted of several subdiscourses of different levels of authoritativeness allowing for a certain stable core as an attribute of any authoritative...

... by sociological and economic scholars interested in structural changes. As high-level advisor for various French governments and a bestselling author, Fourastié remained at the margin of the economic profession. However, an important legacy is the concept of cost disease developed by William Baumol, which is one...

... in intersectoral imbalances at the level of monetary flows with fiscal tools. Correspondence may be addressed to Onur Özgöde, visiting assistant professor, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1819 Chicago Ave. Evanston, IL 60208; by email: oo2002@columbia.edu . Copyright © 2020 Duke...

... economy. Early in his career, he had developed an analogue electrical-mechanical “regression analyzer” to calculate statistical estimates. During the mid-1950s, he shifted to micro-level data and the Monte Carlo method, and then created the first microanalytic simulation of demographic variables. After...

... the level of national welfare and the civic participation the laws have to improve the position of the least advantaged individuals; the constitution has to sanction this principle of justice and it is the task of the legislator to enforce it. References Armando David Sanna Manuela . 2013...

..., an effort that has been missed because it never led to any published work. Finally, the article examines Hayek's attempt to articulate a theory of the market process, one that would be at the same level of generality as the economic calculus, in lectures he gave at the University of Virginia. He never...

... for the identity of many specialties since the 1990s, and (4) the low level of specialization of individual economists throughout the period in contrast to physicists as early as the late 1960s. Correspondence may be addressed to François Claveau, University of Sherbrooke, Department of Philosophy and Applied...

...Marcel Boumans This article aims to show the mathematical contexts out of which emerged Solow's 1957 article “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function.” In particular, it seeks to provide some understanding of its most striking feature, namely, the highly aggregate level on which...