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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (2): 177–210.
Published: 01 June 2014
... properties underlying the natural selection of media of exchange, enhancing the microeconomic efficiency in performing monetary functions and the macroeconomic effectiveness of maintaining monetary stability. After inquiring about the puzzle of metallism, this article investigates the development...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 549–551.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Roger E. Backhouse Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature . Edited by Solovey Mark Cravens Hamilton . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . 288 pp. Hardcover $95.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 168–188.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Neil T. Skaggs Since the reintroduction of Henry Thornton's Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802) by Friedrich Hayek in 1939, Thornton has been regarded as one of the world's premier monetary theorists. In his own time, Thornton was better known for joining...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 253–262.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... Duke University Press 2007 Cantillon, Richard. [1734] 1959 . Essai sur la nature du commerce en général . Edited by Henry Higgs. London: Frank Cass. Galiani, F. [1750] 1963 . Della Moneta . Edited by A. Merola. Milan: Feltrinelli. Groenewegen, P. D. 1971 . A Re-interpretation...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (2): 297–315.
Published: 01 June 1999
...: Oxford University Press. Simon , Herbert A. . 1991 . Models of My Life . New York: Basic Books. Smith , Adam . [ 1776 ] 1937. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . New York: Cannan. Smith , Adam . 1983 . Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres . Oxford...
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History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (3): 390–392.
Published: 01 September 1975
... possibly please everyone! However, Glacken does provide introductions and conclusions of a summary nature which somewhat aid the reader who is short of leisure. The subject matter of the book is set forth in the opening paragraph of the Preface: In the history of Western thought men...
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History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (3): 392–395.
Published: 01 September 1975
...Harold Wolozin John Passmore. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Pp. 213. $7.95. Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 392 History of Political Economy Buffon on man’s influence on nature (Des Ppoyiies de lli ncitiire) seem to be Glacken’s favorites, and he...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (2): 332–337.
Published: 01 June 1978
...William F. Campbell Adam Smith. Edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Two volumes, pp. 1080. $62.50. Andrew S. Skinner and Wilson Thomas. Essays on Adam Smith . Oxford...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (3): 471–492.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Christopher J. Berry We do not find in Smith any programmatic statement about the nature of human nature only, rather, a profuse scattering of remarks. We can, however, be confident that he shared the aspirations of the “Enlightenment project,” within which, indeed, self-awareness of a “conception...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (4): 693–695.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Anthony Brewer An Essay on Economic Theory: An English Translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce en général . Translated by Saucier Chantal . Edited by Thornton Mark . Auburn, Ala. : Ludwig von Mises Institute , 2010 . 251 pp. Paper $15.00...
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History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (4): 627–629.
Published: 01 November 1980
... economists will disagree with Stanfield, but his book should be read by all of us, orthodox and heterodox alike. North Texas State University WILLIAMM. DUGGER Richard Cantillon: Essay de la Nature du Commerce en General. Edited by Takumi Tsuda. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Book...
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History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (2): 233–253.
Published: 01 June 1984
...Paul J. McNulty Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York NY 10027. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 History of Political Economy 16:2 0 1984 by Duke University Press On the nature...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (4): 659–660.
Published: 01 November 1985
.... Joseph Schumpeter and Mark Blaug believe that there has been, as in the natural sciences, a steady progression in the development of economic ideas and judge past theories by the standard of current doctrine. Their view implies that the present state of economics contains all that is true...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 496–498.
Published: 01 September 1985
...) Americas and its contribution to English economic growth. List’s perspective was blatantly Eurocentric. The only minor complaint to be registered about Henderson’s edition of The natural system is a grievously inadequate index. The introduction to the volume is quite good, providing in highly...
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (2): 239–259.
Published: 01 June 1987
... CCC 0018-2702/87/$1.50 Dianiel Raymond, Adam Smith, and classical growth theory: an inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of America Frank Petrella Introduction Daniel Raymond (1786-1849) has been called America’s first...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (4): 787–790.
Published: 01 November 1995
...S. Todd Lowry Richard W. Hadden. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 191 pp. $44.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References De Marchi , Neil , ed. 1993 . Non-Natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of More Heat...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (1): 193–204.
Published: 01 February 2023
... wine in new bottles. The remaining six chapters fall somewhere in between these two contributions. In chapter 2, we learn that David Hume, in his Treatise of Human Nature , made use not only of mechanical but also of chemical analogies. In chapter 3, the well-known relations between Adam Smith's...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 677–714.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Loïc Charles; Christine Théré Abstract This article presents a detailed chronology of the creation of L'Ami des hommes and the very special role played by Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en général in this process. It shows that Mirabeau obtained the manuscript of the French...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (4): 633–669.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Richard Bowler At its inception in the early nineteenth century, political economy in the German territories offered a new science that explored the dynamic interrelationship between human activity and natural processes. An emphasis on the complexity of human needs and the efforts to satisfy them...
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History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (suppl_1): 253–275.
Published: 01 January 1994