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...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...

...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...

... . 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...,” that is, maximizing an objective subject to constraints. The fate of Herskovits's ideas over the past seventy years is distinctive: rejection was followed by caricature, then outright misrepresentation, and finally near-oblivion. This essay is offered not as a vindication of the Herskovits program for economic...

... of human agency associated with EUT and insights from experimental psychology research at odds with EUT. Second, both experiments were performed by psychologists and other non-economists, and the article reconstructs how their authors became interested in measuring an archetypal economic object...

... “the economy” as a composite statistical object, composed of many disparate, nonfungible substantive elements that could not have been otherwise patched into a coherent whole. Wrapping these elements into the veil of money, the NIPA System became the interface through which policymakers intervened...

... the formation of the working class as a visible object for policy intervention. Correspondence may be addressed to Cecilia T. Lanata Briones at [email protected] . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 cost of living index history of statistics Argentina Alejandro E. Bunge José Francisco...

... was not the long-sought solution for the problem of objectivity but a long-contested, and repeatedly discarded, approach. Second, it shows that these contestations were often triggered by deviations between forecasts and the conditions actually observed and by this means argues for the importance of the historical...

... article investigates Eucken's stance on the principle of value freedom, that is, the claim that positive and normative statements should be kept separate. While Eucken defended the notion of scientific objectivity in his earlier writings, he later distanced himself from the principle of value freedom...

... 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...