.... T. Lowry and B. Gordon. Leiden: Brill. Friedman, D. 1980 . In Defense of Thomas Aquinas and the Just Price. HOPE 12.2 : 234 -42. Gilboy, E. 1934 . Wages in Eighteenth Century England . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Glickman, L. B. 1997 . A Living Wage: American Workers...

...H. Spencer Banzhaf The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000 . By Stapleford Thomas A. . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xiii ; 440 pp. $31.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews The Cost...

... significant consequences, because worries over the high cost of living more powerfully shaped Progressive era public policy than has been appreciated. Tariff reduction, parcel post, antitrust prosecution, cold storage legislation, farm credit, standardization of weights and measures, and other reforms were...

...Cecilia T. Lanata Briones This article examines the first two estimates of the Argentine cost of living index, focusing on their producers, Alejandro Bunge and José Figuerola. The Bunge index, released in 1918, did not hold as a stable social and political artifact because it lacked legitimacy...

... the theory's coherence; the relevant issue is that such a price theory would contain its own principle of intelligibility. Second, we will point out the role of this theory in preventing economic compulsion. This approach could help us to draw upon the moral and economic responsibility of human beings living...

..., if necessary, methods of population enhancement, that is, eugenics. 1 At this time there appeared a movement, short-lived though it was to be, which approached the question of social control by changing the ethical nature of society through the application of scientific and engineering principles...

.... Samuelson. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. Weintraub, E. R., and E. L. Forget, eds. 2007 . Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Book Reviews America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics. By Donald...

... in the Mamian areas. Rutgers University ALEXANDERBALINKY John Maynard Keynes: a personal biography of the man who revolutionalized capitalism and the way we live. By Charles H. Hession. New York: Mamillan, 1984. Pp. xv, 400. E22.95. John Maynard Keynes. Volume 1...

... Keynes: an introduction to the lives and works of one hundred modern economists. By Mark Blaug. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble Books, 1985. Pp. 267. $32.50. The title of this biographical work reflects modern book-merchandising tech- nique and does not accurately describe the work...

...Evelyn L. Forget Duke University Press 2002 Abir-Am, P. 1991 . Noblesse Oblige: Biographical Writings on Nobelists. Isis 82 : 326 -43. Abir-Am, P., and D. Outram, eds. 1987 . Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science,1789-1979 . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University...

...: An Introduction to Their Careers and Main Published Works . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Walker, D. A. 1985 . Keynes as a Historian of Economic Thought: The Biographical Essays on Neoclassical Economics. HOPE 17.2 : 159 -86. Walter, J. 2006 . The Utility of Short Lives. Biography 29.2 : 329 -37...

... inferential issues confronting economists were ideological or political in nature. Two case studies are examined, Stanley Jevons’s price index and the Board of Trade’s cost-of-living index, that sharpen the focus on the accuracy of index numbers. What did index numbers really capture about the deterioration...

... that accompanied it. Buffon radically reconceptualized the reproduction of living beings as a process governed by natural laws and not divine intervention. As the paper argues, the physiocrats’ political-economic system was based on precisely such a conception of the natural laws of reproduction, which...

..., How to Live (twenty-one editions from 1915 to 1945, and 12 to 15 million copies of an abridgement distributed by Metropolitan Life), as well as three books opposing repeal of Prohibition. Fisher’s 1890 paper “A League for Peace,” reprinted in the New York Times in August 1914 and then as a pamphlet...

...Till Düppe This essay reflects on historiographical questions that are related to the fact that we write history of that which is still remembered by living persons, which, in practical terms, poses questions of conflicts of interest. Going through different sources of cooperation and conflict, I...

... stories are told, historians have lost sight of the travels of knowledge beyond lecture halls and scholarly journal pages. To explore that terrain I propose we reconceive scientific practice as communicative action. By studying the social lives of books, pamphlets, and newsprint that cross back and forth...

... of the history of economics. Craufurd’s attitude toward his lived experience reveals degrees of investment and detachment analogous to his attitude toward the community of historians of economics. References Blackburn Roma Goodwin . 2008 . “ Heart and Home: A Memoir .” Legal Studies Forum 32 ( 2...

...Paul Dudenhefer In this essay, I remember Craufurd Goodwin as an editor and teacher and how his professional and personal lives were productively intertwined. mentoring pedagogy Hillsborough North Carolina writing Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Correspondence may...

...Claire Wright This article constructs a social network, based on informal seminar attendance, for intellectuals living and working in Vienna in the 1920s. A range of primary and secondary sources has been used to compile a dataset on the duration, operation, and membership of informal seminars...

...Pierangelo Garegnani Ten years on, Professor Blaug has returned to a subject on which his 1999 article, “Misunderstanding Classical Economics: The Sraffian Interpretation of the Surplus Approach,” stirred up lively debate. The subject is, as he puts it, “Sraffian economics,” and his 2009 paper...