... sciences” on late twentieth century economics, a multivolume Collected Economics Works of William Thomas Thornton, and a survey of the economics of scientific inquiry. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Part 1 The Incursion of Noneconomic Methods into Economics Machine Dreams...

..., 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...

... theory of market failure in which depression stemmed from the failure of the financial machine to translate saving into investment. The article explores how these two views of market failure came together in the proceedings of the Temporary National Economic Committee, arguing that the ideas about...

... . Principles of Economics . 2 vols. 9th (variorum) ed. London: Macmillan. Marshall, A., and M. P. Marshall. 1881 . The Economics of Industry . 2nd ed. London: Macmillan. Musselman, E. G. 2002 . The Governor and the Telegraph: Mental Management in British Natural Philosophy. In Bodies/Machines...

... and engineering nexus. Costs calculations were developed to design a nationwide integrated machine. Hydropower in the south was to be interconnected with thermal power in the north, in order to support a massive increase in consumption in the Paris basin, saving on coal and on the scarce funding of the Marshall...

...Colin Danby James Meade played an important role in the 1951 development of the “Mark II” Newlyn-Phillips machine, including making it fit for connection to a mirror-image machine so that policy interactions between two countries could be demonstrated. In 1952 Phillips built, for Meade, a “foreign...

... engineering, and hence of new classical economics, is a world populated by machines that communicate by the exchange of noisy information. The decisions these machines make are conditioned on the (noisy) information they have about the current state of the world but which at the same time will affect future...

... suppression of such complicating details in order to permit a better grasp of the overall workings of the economic machine. Such details are the task of the microeconomist, whose work must supplement the macro insights so that, together, we will obtain a fuller understanding of the growth process and how...

.... 299). Again, we see the value of capital. Our appendix constructs a two-part proof of the result Wicksell de- sired. The first portion indicates that as the number of machines in- creases, so must output, while the second links increases in the value of capital to increases...

... production and use of scientific knowledge.1 In The Mangle this thinking culminates in a philosophical perspective alter­ native and complementary to s s k —suggested previously by Ian Hacking ( 1983)—that emphasizes what Pickering terms the “machinic aspects” of science and their implications...

... Twain’s illustrator, Dan Beard, got out of it-ideas concerning the newly developing industrial economy of the day-are in many cases the same ideas that Thorstein Veblen pulled together into his theories of the capitalist economy some years later.4 The coming of the Machine Age to America...

... production function because the production of any industry is made up of as many techniques as there are steps in the production pro- cess. Even technological leaps impact society in an evolutionary manner. “We have not nor cannot have any compleat history of the invention of machines, because most...

...Susan Howson A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips . By Bollard Alan . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . vii; 262 pp. $35.00 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Barr Nicholas . 1988 . “ The Phillips Machine...

... . An Introduction to Mathematical Machine Theory . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. 1994 . From Virtual Velocities to Economic Action: The Very Slow Arrivals of Linear Programming and Locational Equilibrium. In Natural Images in Economic Thought , edited by Philip E. Mirowski. New York...

... of treating all capital as simply stored-up labor, Longfield views the iiatiori ’s entire stock of capital as consisting of a given quantity of (identical) machines.22 21. Longfield, Lectures, pp. 180-84, esp. p. 183. 22, Throughout much of the Lectures on Pobitrical Economy Longfield follows...

... implemented. Maxine Berg, in this very interesting volume, carefully examines the reactions of the various classes in Great Britain to the new machine pro- cess, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until 1848. She chooses the latter year since it marked the publication of John Stuart Mill’s Principles...

... . John von Neumann and Modern Economics . Oxford: Clarendon. Dreyfus , Herbert . 1988 . Mind over Machine , rev. ed. New York: Free Press. Feyerabend , Paul . 1975 . Against Method . London: NLB Books. Fréchet , Maurice . 1953 . Émile Borel, Initiator of the Theory...

... [ Erfindungsgeist ] is the soul of manufacturing.” “New invention” in manufacturing referred to new colors, new designs, new ways of processing, new machines, and “entirely new kinds of manufacturing industries” (Justi 1767 : 222; 1760a : 572). And new inventions originated from science. As Justi ( 1782 : 221...

... Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 5 : 139 – 55 . Athey S. 2016a . “ How Will Machine Learning Impact Economics? ” www.quora.com/How-will-machine-learning-impact-economics?redirected_qid=6706789 . Athey S. 2016b . “ Why Do Technology Companies Hire...