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... , H. M. 1985 . Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice . London and Los Angeles: Sage. Collins , H. M. 1988a . The Meaning of Experiment: Replication and Reasonableness. In Dismantling Truth: Science in Post-Modern Times , edited by L. Apignanesi and H. Lawson...

... it. Robert W. Dimand, Connecticut College Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. By Robert H. Nelson. Savage, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. 378 pp. $24.95. The author of this book invites economists to look at their profession from a much broader and more...

... -72. The Concept of Applied Economics: A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings Roger E. Backhouse and Jeff Biddle The Concept of Applied Economics Historically Considered The idea of “applied” economics, that is, the notion that there is a class of activities engaged...

...Hansjörg Klausinger The Viennese Students of Civilization: The Meaning and Context of Austrian Economics Reconsidered . By Dekker Erwin . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . xii; 220 pp. $110.00 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 References Hayek...

... and the Left Oppo- sition of the 1920s. In Perspectives in the History of Economic Thought, edited by S. Todd Lowry. Cheltenham, Glouchester: Edward Elgar. Mohammed Dore, Brock University, Canada Meaning & Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics. Edited by James...

... in Honour of J. H. Plumb , edited by McKendrick N. , 255 – 84 . London : Europa . Castiglione Dario . 2000 . “ ’That Noble Disquiet’: Meanings of Liberty in the Discourse of the North .” In Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History, 1750-1950 , edited by Collini...

...Dennis Sherman Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The meaning of economic liberalism in mid-nineteenibcentury France Dennis Sherman I Traditionally, historians argue that economic liberalism reached its peak during the mid...

... as arguing that “Happiness consists in being loved” (80) and as arguing that “peo- ple pursue wealth and fortune primarily for status” (93). Does this mean that status brings love? Or that people do not pursue happiness? Salim Rashid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

...-Harris , Alice . 2001 . In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Kessler-Harris , Alice . 2014 . A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences . Updated ed. Lexington...

... Hayek was engaging in The Road to Serfdom , (2) reviews of and responses to Hayek's book, and (3) prominent politicians and other public intellectuals in London. We find that socialism was commonly understood to mean economic planning under state ownership or control of the means of production. Those...

... that the chartalist theory, as developed by Knapp in his book, did not really argue that means of payment were necessarily a creation of the state. A close reading of his book reveals that means of payment could emerge outside the state and that even other pay-communities were able to create chartal means of payment...

... . It shows that, contrary to Modern Monetary Theory, which proposes a policy-oriented monetary view of public deficit, Knapp's scientific aim is restricted to finding a generally valid concept of means of payments. Different meanings of the terms chartalism and money also separate the two theories. However...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract The main references of the social sciences and humanities are texts. Texts are the means by which social scientists communicate their ideas and the means through which we, as readers, access those same ideas. Consequently, reading can be regarded as one of the main tools...

... after its establishment in 1919, the article explores the far-reaching changes in method and conviction from 1922 on. The members’ realization that the future evolved differently than predicted prompted them to give up their hope for mechanical means of forecasting and to revoke their calls...

...Verena Halsmayer The essay discusses the historiographical strategy of “following artifacts” in the history of contemporary economics. Following models as artifacts means (1) to follow the shifts and changes in their form and meaning; (2) to follow the ideas, theories, fictions, and imaginary...

...—no longer as a means to explain behavior but only as a means to describe it. It is argued that Robinson Crusoe and homo economicus are closely related and that, therefore, the Robinson Crusoe stories afford insights into the development of neoclassical economics and the problems resulting from its reliance...

...Mark Blaug Piero Sraffa published Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities in 1960, and this enigmatic little book invited explanations of its meaning, particularly as its subtitle, Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory , held out hopes of an ambitious research program. In the almost...

... states. Policy in this world therefore means tracing an optimal trajectory taking all these issues into account. To show this shift in epistemology and ontology, the history of economics is interwoven with the history of mathematics, which cannot be detangled from the emergence of the digital computer...

... was promoted to a chair at the new Staatswirtschaftliche Fakultät of the university in Tübingen. However, he lost his prestigious position soon. Whereas List praised the systematic appeal of Cameralism and tended to consider it an end in itself, the Kings of Württemberg used Cameralism as a means of reforming...