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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (3): 529–531.
Published: 01 September 1996
...Philip Mirowski Theodore Porter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. xiv, 310 pp. $24.95. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 References Forman , Paul. 1995 . Review of Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Science...
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History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (3): 505–519.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Wenzer, 109 -33. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. Tullock, Gordon. 1967 . The Welfare Costs of Tariffs,Monopolies, and Theft. Western Economic Journal 5 (June): 224 -32. Frank Knight’s Proposal to End
Distinctions among Factors of
Production and His Objection to
the Single Tax
Florenz...
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History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (1): 56–91.
Published: 01 March 1971
...Carl G. Uhr Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Davidson’s Theory of “Objective
Value” : -4 “Transformation” Problem
Carl G. Uhr
FORREASONS which will be made clear later, David Davidson has
remained a relatively...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 1–55.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Pedro Garcia Duarte Monetary economists argue that they adopted quadratic loss functions because the latter delivered easy solutions to complex stochastic models. In that narrative, Simon (1956) and Theil (1957) are mentioned by their proofs that models with quadratic objective functions have...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Evelyn L. Forget Abstract This article examines emerging concepts of objectivity in the work of Harriet Martineau and Henry Mayhew. It focuses on Martineau's How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) and Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (1861), documenting how ideas about objectivity...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 57–84.
Published: 01 December 1999
... . The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall . 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Obscure Objects of Desire?:
Nineteenth-Century British Economists
and the Price(s) of “Rare Art”
Michael V. White
There is more similarity in a precious painting by Degas and a frosted...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 373–414.
Published: 01 September 2013
... to the traditional picture. According to the classical view, measuring an object consists of assessing the numerical ratio between the object and some other object taken as a unit. In particular, we show that Jevons, Menger, and Walras understood measurement in the classical sense and applied this understanding...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 207–226.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in a specific photographic way. The three populations studied by Galton were people suffering tuberculosis, Jews, and criminals. This essay argues that despite the fact that Galton aimed at mechanical objectivity, subjective judgements nevertheless appear to be a necessary part of this kind of inductive...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (3): 481–510.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... The similarity he points to, however, is somewhat limited: while some of his articles from the 1930s stressed the subjectivity of producers' decisions, his later criticisms of standard policies, as well as the method he suggests for the design of policy, are based on the idea that costs are objective...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (4): 631–664.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (Suppl_1): 334–355.
Published: 01 December 2009
... that after Solow's seminal contribution, the “residual” became a reproducible object. Losing its ties with the intentions and beliefs of its originator, it was given new and unexpected uses in other branches of macroeconomics. While the residual had always remained a problematic result in growth accounting...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 143–162.
Published: 01 March 2009
... are necessary for inferring complex probabilities, as the ones defined by Bayes's theorem—an enlargement of the frequentist tradition as defined by Venn. The notion of probability is objective; the passage from the objective sphere to the epistemic one requires rules external to the theory of probability...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 June 2019
... contribution as a new way of producing scientific knowledge that consisted in the construction and use of complex tools (macro-econometric models) within specific institutional configurations (econometric laboratories) used for explicit policy and scientific objectives in which the well-defined roles...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (4): 703–729.
Published: 01 August 2019
... trade. In this connection, the paper investigates Genovesi’s idea that the maintenance of a country’s “trading fund” should be the fundamental objective for its internal and external trade policies. These policies, according to Genovesi, should be consistent with the context of the body politic under...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., and coherent position, with deep historical roots and based on the ethics of G. E. Moore and that rejected moral Robbins's moral skepticism. Hawtrey took the view that goodness is an objective property of the world and, as a result, he construed the relationship between ethics and economics in a manner quite...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (4): 743–763.
Published: 01 November 2011
... relationship between the two propositions it meant to prove, it is relatively easy to refute the main objections that have been raised against the very same numerical example in the past. Moreover, it reaffirms the sustained relevance of Ricardo's two propositions as important insights for understanding...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (1): 123–148.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for Alfred Marshall and A. C. Pigou. In Italy the double taxation of savings was endorsed by Luigi Einaudi and was the object of heated debate among Italian public finance scholars. The expenditure tax should have followed from the theorem of double taxation as a corollary, and indeed, it was proposed...
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History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (1): 28–55.
Published: 01 March 1971
...Howard J. Sherman The object of this article is to review the previous models and offer some new ones based on Marx's theories of national income, capital accumulation, growth, cycles, and cyclical growth. Marx did not anywhere put together his various discussions of these points in a systematic...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (2): 291–327.
Published: 01 April 2022
... to his objection to the “Eurocentric” organization's attempt to impose minimum wage fixing machinery on and allegations of social dumping in Japan sheds new light on the international development of policy-oriented economics, namely, from the hitherto unheeded perspective of an emerging economy from Asia...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (1): 103–143.
Published: 01 February 2023
... a complex process of interaction between researchers in consumption and interconnected fields that transformed Hall's original object, from a local theory of consumption into a growing research area spanning the fields of consumption, finance, monetary policy and econometric modeling, and becoming...
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