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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (2): 380–382.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Lars Magnusson [email protected] Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Mercantilism and the Making of the Modern Economic Mind . By Philipp Robinson Rössner . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . 167 pp. $59.99 . Copyright 2022 by Duke...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (3): 566–567.
Published: 01 September 2008
....” In this prevailing narrative, the appropriate subtitle for the book under review would have been “the destruction of an international monetary order.” Whether one favors fl oating exchange rates or not, modern monetary theory has started from the observation that the old order was fatally wounded when...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 117–144.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents Thomas C. Leonard Disagreements among economists rarely breach the academy’s walls. The recent minimum-wage controversy is a significant exception. At first glance, all the sound and fury is a puzzle.1...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (4): 754–756.
Published: 01 November 2009
... evolved into its own specialization, and econometrician acquired its modern defi nition—someone who uses statistics in 750 Book Reviews economics, either in theoretical areas (e.g., discovering new methods or testing esti- mators) or applied work. Le Gall implicitly uses a third and much broader...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 129–153.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of the World , 130 -61. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Coleman, D. C., ed. 1969 . Revisions in Mercantilism . London: Methuen. Cooper, Alix. 1998 . Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in the Early Modern German Territories. Ph.D. diss. , Harvard University. Eamon...
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History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (3): 405–417.
Published: 01 September 1986
.... History of Political Economy 18:3 0 1986 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/86/$1.50 Three precursors of modern theories of old-age pensions: a contribution to the history of social-policy doctrines J@n...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (4): 671–674.
Published: 01 November 1985
... PETERV. MINI Keynes und the modern world: Proceedings of the Keynes Centenury Conference, King’s College, Cambridge. Edited by David Worswick and James Trevithick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 269. As the title indicates, this book contains the essays, comments...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 153–156.
Published: 01 March 1985
... as due to influences and circumstances other than the intellectual weakness of the American environment or of the authors themselves. University of Victoria, Canada MALCOLMRUTHERFORD Marx, marginalism and modern sociology: from Adam Smith to Max Weber. By Simon Clarke...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 552–555.
Published: 01 September 1991
... Smith and Modern Economics: From Market Behaviour to Public Choice. By Edwin G. West. Brookfield, Ver.: Edward Elgar, 1990. vii, 212 pp. $47.95. Although not likely to suit everyone’s appetite, this very readable volume is a hermeneutic feast. An exercise in selective celebration...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 443–474.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Franck Jovanovic; Christophe Schinckus Financial economics and mathematical finance are the two traditional scientific disciplines that constitute modern financial theory. Although they still largely dominate modern financial theory, in the past few years a new “player” has increasingly been making...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 March 1999
...William Darity, Jr. Hans Christoph Binswanger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. x, 131 pp. Cloth, $21.50. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Book Reviews Money and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust. By Hans Christoph...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 708–710.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of The Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. Oxford:Clarendon Press. 708 Book Reviews A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxv...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... Zylberberg, André. 1990 . L'Économie mathématique en France 1870-1914 . Paris: Economica. Book Reviews 179 Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics:Dupuit and the Engineers. By Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hébert. Chicago: University...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (1): 49–75.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Wealth and Welfare. Quarterly Journal of Economics 27 (August): 672 -86. ____. 1928 . Increasing Returns and Economic Progress. Economic Journal 38 (December): 527 -42. On the Methodological Foundations of Modern Microeconomics: Frank Knight and the “Cost Controversy” in the 1920s...
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History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (2): 364–378.
Published: 01 June 1972
...R. D. Collison Black Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 R. D. COLLISON BLACK is Professor of Economics at The Queen's University of Belfast. W. S. Jevons and the Foundation of Modern Economics R. D. Collison Black We...
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History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (2): 339–358.
Published: 01 June 1973
...Ephraim Kleiman Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 An Early Modern Hebrew Textbook of Economics Ephraim Kleiman THEeconomic theory popularized in eastern European Jewish com- munities at the beginning...
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History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (2): 156–173.
Published: 01 June 1975
...Clifton B. Luttrell Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 21 Thomas Jefferson on money and banking : disciple of David Hume and forerunner of some modern monetary views Clifton B. Luttrell As the nation...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (1): 48–88.
Published: 01 March 1977
...William R. Allen Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Economics, economists and economic poli~y: modern American experiences William R. Allen Economics has come of age in the 1960’s. . . . the Federal gov- ernment has an overarching responsibility...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 592–593.
Published: 01 November 1977
... to the application of modern economic theory to the study of different cultures. This controversy has been carried on mostly in the volleys fired back and forthin scholarly journals. Both sides are represented in this collection of papers, the Polanyi group by a posthumously published paper of Polanyi...
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (2): 288–291.
Published: 01 June 1983
... inflations show, there must first be a political decision to stop inflation. The quan- tity theory sheds no light on how to accomplish this. University of Maryland, Baltimore County CHARLESF. PEAKE Pioneers of modern economics in Britain. Edited by D. P. O’Brien and John R. Presley...