...Alain Marciano This article describes the intellectual trajectory James Buchanan followed from the early 1950s, when he started to work on ``spillover effects,'' to the mid-1960s, when he had completed a consistent explanation of the efficiency of market mechanisms and private arrangements...

...William F. Campbell Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 History of Political Economy 17:2 0 1985 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-270U85/$1.50 The free market...

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...Steven G. Medema The Hesitant Hand: Mill, Sidgwick, and the Evolution of the Theory of Market Failure Steven G. Medema The theory of market failure brought analytical refi nement to a centuries- old concern with the impact of self-interested behavior on economic activity.1...

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... aspects as being superior to conventional approaches. The present contribution traces these episodes and investigates why there is continuing reluctance in labor market analysis to employ an otherwise well-established analytical instrument. Correspondence may be addressed to Gerhard Michael Ambrosi...

... . “The ministry of production in the collectivist state” (1908). In F. A. Hayek, ed., Collectivist economic planning . London. Bergson , Abram 1952 . “Socialist economics.” In Howard S. Ellis, ed., A survey of contemporary economics . Homewood, Ill. Bergson , Abram 1967 . “Market socialism...

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... Sir John R. . 1989 . A Market Theory of Money . Oxford: Clarendon Press. Jevons, William Stanley. 1871. Theory of Political Economy. London: Macmillan. Marshall , Alfred. [1890] 1920 . Principles of Economics . 8th ed. London: Macmillan. Robertson , Dennis. 1957 . Lectures...

... to Modern Economic Thought. Edited by Douglas Mair. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1990. $39.00. Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith’s Critique of the Free Market Economy. By Spencer J. Pack. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. $49.95. In recent years, there has been a flood...

... of Nations, Smith suc- ceeded in soothing our perplexity about capitalism by making us wonder at the self-regulating nature of the market. Hence, on Smith’s own grounds, he has pro- vided us with just the right reasons for us to be! grateful to him. There is an important sense in which every part...

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... Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange. Quarterly Journal of Economics 97 . 4 : 543 -69. Akerlof , George A. , and Janet L. Yellen 1986 . Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barro , Robert J. , and Herschel I. Grossman 1971 . A General...

... . New York: John Wiley and Son. Understanding the Market Mechanism before Adam Smith: Economic Thought in Medieval Islam Hamid Hosseini 1. Introduction Although economic science is not more than some two centuries old, discussion and analysis of economic matters has existed...

...Kathryn D. Blanchard By D. Stephen Long. New York: Routledge , 2000 . 270 pp . 2004 Book Reviews Divine Economy: Theology and the Market. By D. Stephen Long. New York: Routledge, 2000. 270 pp. Economicsand theology have not alwaysbeen strangers. Before economicsevolved...