... 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...

... 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...

... , 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... -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...

... 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...

...—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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... and scientific issues. During the interwar period, editors, propagandists, and social scientists encouraged the use of visual language as an important means of spreading information and opinions about the economy to a larger audience. We explore different yet related aspects of this development by studying...

... the meaning of economics involving Hayek and Robbins at the LSE and Knight in Chicago. References Barnett M. 1990 . “The Papers of Carl Menger in the Special Collections Department.” In Carl Menger and His Legacy in Economics , edited by Caldwell B. . History of Political Economy 22...

...Jonathan S. Franklin By no means exclusive, the tendency of agricultural economists to emphasize the field’s historic commitment to applied economics is nonetheless intriguing and worthy of further exploration. If agricultural economists have demonstrated the ability to translate “practical...

...Luca Michelini; Terenzio Maccabelli The relationship between economics and anti-Semitism has always been a controversial subject. The question is complex by nature: to describe an author as an anti-Semite means to cast a shadow over his thought, with consequences that are much more serious when...

... elements such as classical liberalism, physiocracy and mercantilism, protectionism, economic nationalism, Orthodox ethics, common sense, and a contradiction between economic policy objectives and means, among others. For this reason it is usually considered as immature economic thinking that is very hard...

...José Edwards There is a misunderstanding about the meaning of behaviorism in recent discussions on the history of economics and psychology. This essay explores that “behaviorist myth” by highlighting the role of “control” as defined by behaviorists and contrasting their views against those...