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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 June 2021
... tid . Stockholm : Atlantis . Young J. T. 1998 . Faith, Medical Alchemy and Natural Philosophy: Johann Moriaen, Reformed Intelligencer, and the Hartlib Circle . Farnham : Ashgate . The Magnificent Spruce: Anders Kempe and Anarcho-Cameralism in Sweden Carl Wennerlind Political...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 332–378.
Published: 01 December 1999
... compito . Viterbo: Girolamo Discepolo. Ambrose , Cole Alison . 1995 . Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts . New York: Harry N. Abrams Hall. Ambrosius . [386 b.c.] 1977 . De Officis . In Opere, vol. 13. Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Antoniano , Silvio...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 423–451.
Published: 01 December 1999
... Observations, of that Superb and Singular Display of Art . London: J. Bell, no date; sporadic pagination. (Guildhall Library, London, PAM 6546). A Description of a Most Magnificent Piece of Mechanism and Art . London, 1769 (no publisher). (BL 8766.c.19).A Descriptive Catalogue of the Several Superb...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 301–331.
Published: 01 December 1999
... and humanist discussion of the con- sumption of art centers around the Aristotelian-Thomistic notion of magnificentia. Magnificence is a special virtue that allows one to real- ize truly great deeds or things. When magnificence is directed toward material goods, it is intimately connected to conspicuous...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 February 2022
... depiction of development economics, although drafted in a different context altogether. Samuelson s charge that economic development theory tackled intractable questions reflected also his view that development economists especially, but not only, those influenced by the magnificent dynamics of classical...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (2): 289–307.
Published: 01 June 1995
... subject; and content ourselves with inquiring how far each of them was fitted to sooth the imagination, and to render the theatre of nature a more coherent, and therefore a more magnificent spectacle, than otherwise it would have appeared to be” (Astronomy 2: 12). Note...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (1): 161–164.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., the Éléments is more often cited than read. The fault, if it be a fault, lies not only in the forbidding magnificence of its reputation, but also in the book itself, which needs to be drained to the dregs before it can truly be judged. The distinguishing...
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History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (3): 508–512.
Published: 01 September 1988
.... $550. How can one begin to assess this magnificent achievement? It defies belief that the project began only in 1983, and yet by December 1987 four handsomely bound volumes containing nearly 2,000 entries by over 900 contributors are pub- lished. The editorial feat that this represents...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 595.
Published: 01 November 1977
... Petty and has developed into a soporific, or alternatively, in language characteristic of the book, ‘‘a magnificent edi- fice, [which] with all its disparate parts, is built on air, a mirage that misleads the seeker from his goal” (p. 294). Standard bourgeois economists have not been...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 31–40.
Published: 01 December 1999
...: And it is for the magnificence of magnates to esteem them magnificently. But food, clothes, and other things of the sort are necessary to the republic. Let no fraud or malice creep into their pricing; which means, reader, that you are not to sell such things piecemeal for whatever price you can demand. (de Soto 1553...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 594–595.
Published: 01 November 1977
... essentially with Sir William Petty and has developed into a soporific, or alternatively, in language characteristic of the book, ‘‘a magnificent edi- fice, [which] with all its disparate parts, is built on air, a mirage that misleads the seeker from his goal” (p. 294). Standard bourgeois economists...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (Supplement): 301–311.
Published: 01 December 1996
... on the magnificent report of the Canadian Royal Commission on Taxation (the so-called Carter Commission), while the inspiration for Chile’s innovative “privatized” retirement scheme came from none other than the Teachers Insurance and Annuity AssociatiodCollege Retire- ment Equities Fund (TIANCREF), through...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (4): 855–857.
Published: 01 November 2001
... to come. For all his faults, Kuhn single-handedly created, if not the sociology of science, because Robert K. Mer- ton had already done that, what might be called a historical philosophy of science, a post-positivist philosophy of science grounded in historical studies, of which his magnificent...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 344–346.
Published: 01 June 2003
... than a third of the book is in fact devoted to telling that story; the remaining chapters cover a wide variety of topics,literary,philosophical, historical,and economic,although this,by any stretch of the imagination,is as far as a resemblance between Levy’s text and Hume’s magnificent essays can...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (1): 7–10.
Published: 01 March 1976
... of related and hitherto largely unpublished materials, as part of the magnificent edi- tion of Keynes’ Collected Writings that the Royal Economic Society is publishing as its most appropriate memorial to him. In particular, in Volumes XI11 and XIV of these Writings, entitled The General Theory...
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History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 June 1989
..., general survey of ‘Money and crisis in Schumpeter and Keynes.’ The magnificent performance, he says, was to develop the price system for capital assets (called liquidity preference by Keynes) parallel to the price system for goods. ‘Financing industrial enterprise in Great Britain and Germany...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 1990
... even now, as Arthur Okun’s magnificent 1974 Godkin lectures, “Equality and efficiency,” testify (Okun 1975). This fighting for ideology and/or for a welfare economics consensus has gone on (all but endlessly), and has led many to the view that victory is impossible. To many it seems more...
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History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (3): 506–508.
Published: 01 September 1988
... this magnificent achievement? It defies belief that the project began only in 1983, and yet by December 1987 four handsomely bound volumes containing nearly 2,000 entries by over 900 contributors are pub- lished. The editorial feat that this represents deserves some kind of award to the three editors...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 September 1990
.... The Greeks were extremely fond of amazing stories. To impress the public by telling beautiful stories, by professing great words, or by undertaking grandiose actions, to hand out or to spend riches in magnificence: these things appealed much more to their imagination than analyses of the laws...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 1995
... (writes contradicts the Smithian foundations on which he explicitly declares he is building. In any case, Marx is nearer to the classical “magnificent dynamics” approach than Ricardo (on this, see Sylos Labini 1954). Indeed, Marx’s specific contributions to the development of classical...