... the analytical frame by multiplying the relevant actors, modes, and targets of intervention yet could still include within it research on public intellectuals narrowly construed. As an empirical example, we suggest that the design and diffusion of economic indicators—specifically, the GDP and the myriad...

... made between evolutionist and mechanist modes of thinking. Alchian, Armen A. 1949 . Reliability of Progress Curves in Airframe Production . Santa Monica: RAND Corporation (RM-206-1, revised 3 February 1950). ———. 1950 . Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory. Journal of Political...

... regulation across the globe. Kahn was head of the US Civil Aeronautics Board for only eighteen months or so, but he brought about considerable changes to the airline industry and, through its spread effects, to all other modes of transportation. Here we focus on the degree to which he actually foresaw...

... was to use negative feedback loops to ensure the stability of a system that was always in a transient mode. In the 1950s, control engineers such as Arnold Tustin, Bill Phillips, and Charles Holt offered their new analytic tools of block diagrams of systems with feedback loops, stability criteria...

... economies (from war or depression) as well as creating “modern” economies in postwar developmental states. The latter is marked by the development of engineering-type tools to solve particular economic problems. While the former mode came into its own in mid-century, and lost confidence in later years...

... to find the right mode of expression for his research. In the introduction to the Principles , Marshall had explained his reliance on partial equilibrium analysis and, more generally, ceteris paribus reasoning as the natural method of the economist, for which his method of diagrams was an excellent fit...

...Heath Pearson Melville Herskovits's work in economic anthropology, published between 1926 and 1952, sought to give the subdiscipline both a name and a characteristic mode of inquiry. The name stuck, but his methodological proposals were ultimately rejected by nearly all researchers in the field...

... of the Enlightenment. We want to show that the geographical and social context in which the scientific activities of the physiocrats took place structured the relationships inside each of the two communities and influenced their mode of production and dissemination of economic thought. Correspondence may...

....” The article uncovers two reasons for this tension. Firstly, the tension is an effect of two different modes of engagement, namely an ethical commitment to the universal cultivation of desirable forms of character through work (the explicit goal of cooperation), and a pragmatic analysis of the comparative...

... . Lineages of the absolutist state . London. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Marxistes (CERM) 1974 . Sur le 'mode de production asiatique.’ Second edition. Paris. Clarkson , Stephen 1978 . The Soviet theory of development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist scholarship . Toronto...

..., Walt Rostow, The stages of economic growth (London, 1968). 47 1 472 History of Political Economy 20:3 (1988) opment , transforming precapitalist modes of production and integrating them into the world market, giving them an impetus...

...- CoSgel / Metaphors, Stories, and the Entrepreneur 69 Table 2 Northrop Frye’s Classification of Narratives Mode Defining Charac tens tic Narrative Examples Myth Protagonist superior in kind “Outside the normal literary to others and their environment categories...

... as a manifestation of traditional Cartesian/Euclidean mode of thought and in favor of a nondualist Babylonian mode of thought. Thus an entirely new chapter, “Modes of Thought in Economics,” has been added to the book to clear up misconceptions. The chief development...

... variables of a given culture. Thus the different cultures of this world appeared as various modes of production each tied to a particular time and space in human history. Secondly, Marx and Engels followed the gen- eral trend of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by linking these spa- tially...

... the schools. Before comparing the views of the four macro schools on these issues, Dow provides a lengthy overview of methodological issues, including recent philoso- phy of science. She claims that there are two major modes of thought which dominate recent methodological inquiry. Creating...

... of an agreed definition or a uni- fied theory of the entrepreneur, he argues that the entrepreneur could be present but go unnoticed. Second, he argues that my approach “fails to explain how the different modes of narrative actually infiltrate eco- nomic discourse” (ibid., 278). Correspondence may...

... modem problem of seemingly insatiable wants is probably a very drastic one: it would involve nothing less than the replacement of our mode of acquisition .2 ARISTOTLE AND THE PROBLEM OF INSATIABLE DESIRES: A REPLY William S. Kern, Franklin and Marshall College Spencer...

... capitalism? In order to understand the capitalist mode of production, how important is historical knowledge, knowledge of pre- capitalist systems, and knowledge of how the capitalist system came to be? How does Marx use and present historical facts to help make his theo- retical points regarding...

... societies attain the material require- ments of life, that is, on their mode of subsistence. His argument drew upon his belief that societies tend naturally to progress through dis- tinct economic stages as they develop. Each of these stages is charac- terized by a different mode of subsistence...

... this theme of two modes of thought in economics. 2. Arjo Klamer (1983, 1984) documents the ascendancy of the Ricardian approach in mod- ern macroeconomics and explores the problems in communication that have arisen in its wake. Maclachlan / The Ricardo-Malthus Debate on Underconsumption 565...