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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (2): 301–302.
Published: 01 June 1977
... recent texts, A History of Economic Theory and Method is canted toward the period 1870-1940. The resulting compression of the earlier and the more recent developments in economic theory means that the treatment of these periods is less complete and, correspondingly, more dif- ficult...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 423–446.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . London : Routledge . Maas , Harro , and Mary S. Morgan . 2002 . “ Timing History: The Introduction of Graphical Analysis in 19th Century British Economics .” Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines , no. 2 : 97 – 127 . Marshall , Alfred . 1885 . “ On the Graphic Method...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (4): 601–669.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Yann Giraud Newcomers to the history of economics are often exposed to several texts that try to define the subject, make a case for its usefulness, and present the various methods one can use to establish historical claims. Such pieces introduce a number of methodological divides, for instance...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and the methodical debates that accompanied its introduction, its widespread adoption, and its failure on both sides of the Atlantic. The story I tell complicates the history of prob- ability in economics, as it illustrates the manifold changes and quarrels that took place before statistical inference based...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (4): 551–592.
Published: 01 December 2016
...François Claveau; Yves Gingras A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 571–577.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Harro Maas On May 28–29, 2010, twelve experimental economists gathered at the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam for a witness seminar on the history of the experiment in economics. Though the witness seminar has been used as an oral method of research in contemporary history...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (suppl_1): 109–133.
Published: 01 December 2014
... be an important factor in MIT’s rise to prominence. On a methodological level this article introduces collective biography, or prosopography, a well-established historiographical method, to the field of the history of economics. Correspondence may be addressed to Andrej Svorenčík, Department of Economics...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (1): 41–72.
Published: 01 February 2024
... conducted research in the history of economics. He classified economists according to the method they adopted in studying the origin and purpose of capital. This approach to the history of economics, focusing on issues of methodology, would be fateful for Lutz's later career. After defending his thesis...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (1): 21–73.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that his overall conception of econometrics is insufficiently conveyed in the history of economics literature. This essay aims at illuminating key features of Frisch's scientific conception, drawing partly on unpublished works unearthed from his archives. Among these are a series of eight lectures...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 609–638.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to the field. Douglass C. North was central to both of these advances. The first was cliometrics: the application of economic theory and quantitative methods to the study of history. Here the formalism that transformed mainstream economics was making its way into history. Cliometrics “formalized economic...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 597–603.
Published: 01 September 2018
...François Claveau; Catherine Herfeld We present social network analysis as a complement to other methods in the history of economics. We first discuss why social network analysis is especially promising for the study of the history of recent economics. We then use an example of research using...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (4): 636–668.
Published: 01 November 1978
... (8) (11) (47) (24) (16) (15) (21) Acworth, Sir W. M., Railway economics 2 Armitage-Smith, G., Principles and methods of taxa- tion 22 Ashley, W. J., Eco- nomic history...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 605–613.
Published: 01 September 2018
... it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding academic communities and with the help of a number of examples I show where its potential lies. Correspondence may be addressed to Andrej...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 529–546.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Maria Bach Abstract The history of economics literature has few studies on how traveling impacts economists and their ideas. Much fewer still exist on the travels of lesser-known economists such as Romesh Chunder Dutt. Dutt (1848–1909) was the founder of agricultural economics in India, a civil...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 127–157.
Published: 01 December 2017
... their history here because instrumental variables are Empirical Economist’s Toolkit 133 included in the applied economist’s causal toolkit, as well as their role in stabilizing quasi-experimental methods in the discipline of economics, as described in later sections...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... studies of the work of Irma Adelman, Wassily Leontief, or Simon Kuznets, even though the latter two are Nobel laureates. A number of interesting narrative threads, involving varied and chang- ing inferential methods and strategies, can be discerned in the history of empirical economic research. One...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (suppl_1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 1997
... that emerged from this session was that it was not realistic to separate the study of recent economics from attention to new historiographic methods for producing histories of economics, where these new methods, it was also argued, were appropriate not just to the writing of recent economics...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 1985
.... 1975 . ‘Kuhn versus Lakatos, or paradigms versus research programmes in the history of economics.’ History of Political Economy 7 : 399 -419. Blaug , M. 1976a . ‘Kuhn versus Lakatos, or paradigms versus research programmes in the history of economics.’ In S. Latsis, ed., Method...
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History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 March 1988
... of economics: the case of the Leontief paradox.’ In S. J. Latsis, ed., Method and appraisal in economics (Cambridge, 1976), 109 -27. Diamond Jr. Arthur M. 1988 . ‘Citation counts for Nobel Prize winners in economics.’ History of Economics Society Bulletin 10 ( Spring ). Diamond Jr...