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.... Zappia, C. 2001 . Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Dynamics in the 1930s. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 23.1 : 55 -75. “Conjecturizing” Cournot: The Conjectural Variations Approach to Duopoly Theory Nicola Giocoli It is a well-recognized peculiarity ofthe so-called years of“high...

... developed during the interwar period by Lud- wig von Mises and Friedrich A. Hayek is a theory ofthe unsustainable boom. Responding to cheap-credit policies ofthe central bank, the econ- omy can find itselfon a growth path that is inconsistent with the underly- ing economic realities.1 Internal...

... standard and permit domestic control ofthe money stock and price level. At that time, two rival sets ofindicators clamored for acceptance by Federal Reserve System (Fed) policymakers. One set ofindicators, consisting ofthe money stock, the price level, and the real rate ofinterest, was appropriate...

... and Statistics”) ofthe British Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), which held its annual meeting at Cambridge at the beginning ofOctober. One paper gave a Correspondence may be sent to I. Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex University at Enfield, Middle- sex EN3 4SF, United Kingdom; e-mail: ivor2...

... inspection ofthe post-Keynesian literature, like other heterodox literatures, reveals an extent ofreference to historical texts and analy- sis ofthese texts that is unusual in modern economics, although not in earlier economic literature. The purpose ofthis essay is to provide an account ofthe part...

... successfully imagines himself into the shoes of another that he no longer fully distinguishes his interests from the person with whom he identifies” (55), and “empathetic identification,” which “stops short ofthe point where we supposedly cease to separate our interests from those with whom we identify” (56...

... our work most decisively,” but he did not elaborate. While Leontiefcited the forecasts the Bureau had made during World War II ofsurprisingly robust postwar demand for steel ([1951] 1986, [1985] 1986), he never provided a comprehensive account ofthe Bureau’s role in the development ofinput-output...

... in world history has not yet been realized. This is a pity, since the end ofthe Cold War, the birth ofthe internet, and the erosion ofstate power by money markets give plenty ofscope for reflection, in the spirit ofHegel’s owl, on the century whose defining moment marks the end ofHeath Pearson’s essay...

... shameless crib from Voltaire, one ofthe great pamphleteers ofthe ages, was meant to get us on track. Correspondence may be addressed to Heath Pearson, Department ofHistory, University ofCal- ifornia, 3229 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720; e-mail: [email protected]. I am grateful...

... the socialist cal- culation debate (see, e.g., Levy 1990; Buchanan [1969] 1999, 88). De- spite readily ceding that planning was superior to markets given a posited lack ofself-interest on the part ofthe planners (see, e.g., Knight [1940] 1982, 160), Knight was equally insistent that the attractions ofsocial...

... birthday. He had been a member ofthe University ofIllinois faculty for forty-six years, the last fourteen as professor emeritus. He continued to teach on a reduced schedule after retirement, usually offering a graduate seminar in the history ofeconomic thought. He was a strong supporter ofthis journal...

.... But there was a mismatch between its emergence to industrial maturity and the immaturity of a political culture dominated by the disciplines of a dynastic state. Thus the fruits of industrial productivity could be allocated to warlike purposes. Echoing themes that he had set out earlier in The Theory ofthe Leisure Class...

...: University of Michigan Press, 1995. xiv; 197 pp. $42.50. Frank G. Steindl’s history of monetary interpretations of the Great Depression cov- ers analyses from the 1930s to Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz’s A Mone- tary History ofthe United States (1963). Steindl works from the premise that Fried...

... prodigious writing efforts ofthe early (and to some cxtent mid) 1860s which saw fruition in his own lifetime. One of the highlights of this chapter is an explication of the relationship bctween Cupiral and the "six-book plan," wherein Oaklcy concludes that "no definitive intcrpretation...

... development: price, income and monetary changes in three wartime periods,’ American Economic Review 42.2 (1 952): 612-25; Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, “World War I1 inflation,” in A monetary history ofthe United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton 1963), ch. 10...

...: University of Michigan Press, 1995. xiv; 197 pp. $42.50. Frank G. Steindl’s history of monetary interpretations of the Great Depression cov- ers analyses from the 1930s to Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz’s A Mone- tary History ofthe United States (1963). Steindl works from the premise that Fried...

... ofthe Origins of Islamic Economic Thought. By Yassine Essid. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1995.257 pp. $85.00. We finally have a compact scholarly survey of Islamic economic thought that will pro- vide a reference base for studying contemporary Islamic economics. It also provides...

.... 1967. The Years ofHigh Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. A Critique ofthe Origins of Islamic Economic Thought. By Yassine Essid. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1995.257 pp. $85.00. We finally have a compact scholarly survey of Islamic economic thought that will pro...

... of science, Whewell is remembered as a historian and philosopher of the inductive sciences who coined the term scientist; he was a founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and banned Darwin’s Origin ofthe Species from the Trinity College Library. He also contributed four...

.... “Exchange Rates and Prices: The Historical Evidence.” Journal of Internationul Economics 8 (May): 163-67. Malynes, Gerrard D. 1924. A Treatise ofthe Canker of England’s Common- wealth (1601). Excerpts reprinted in Tudor Economic Documents, ed. R. H. Tawney and Eileen Power (London), 3:386-404...