.... History of Political Economy I7:l 0 1985 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/85/$1.50 Ricardo on money: the operational significance of the non-neutrality of money in the short run James C. W. Ahiakpor One...

...Robin E. Rider Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Ackoff , R. L. 1957 . A Comparison of Operational Research in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain. Operational Research Quarterly 8 : 88 -100. B. H. P. R. 1956 . Review of “Management Science, 1...

...Andrea Maneschi Edited by Pier Luigi Porta. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1986. Vol. 1, 584 pp.; vol. 2, 896 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 BOOK REVIEWS Opere di David Ricardo. Edited by Pier Luigi Porta. Torino: Unione Tipogra- fico...

...Chris Miller This article examines shifts in Soviet ideas about the economic and political role of the state. Drawing on documents from Russian archives as well as published debates, the article traces Soviet ideas about how states operate. Examining the role of writers such as Fedor Burlatsky...

... will travel. An operational economist during the first part of her career, her turn to history was the avenue through which she could continue it. Leaving a lasting impression on her colleagues, her institution, and the economics profession overall, she reaped recognition of her role in furthering the status...

...Andrej Svorenčík The core question of the MIT economics department’s history—why has MIT economics risen to prominence so quickly?—requires an approach to the history of economics that focuses on the role of the networks within which economists operate and how their ideas diffuse and gain...

...William Thomas This article examines certain issues in postwar economic theory and compares them with related issues in the nascent fields of cybernetics, industrial dynamics, and operations research. Because all these fields had close connections to MIT, the comparison provides an opportunity...

...Malcolm Rutherford Institutional economists have always been critical of the way in which unregulated markets operate. The basic argument is that the institutions of the market that are supposed to control the activities of business have become inadequate to the task because of the development...

... of man” was focal. There was a convergence on the idea that human nature is constant and uniform in its operating principles. By virtue of this constancy human nature was predictable so that once it was scientifically understood then, as Hume argued, a new foundation was possible for, inter alia, morals...

... particular discourse of “application”—the application of theory—operates in the sciences. Please address correspondence to Paul Erickson, History Department, Wesleyan University, Public Affairs Center, 238 Church St., Middletown, CT 06459; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 2017 Duke...

..., the Chicagoans advocated the use of the federal government’s fiscal operations to conduct monetary policy—entailing an expansion of the size of the Fed’s balance sheet—to combat the Great Depression, the abandonment of the gold standard in favor of exchange-rate flexibility, one-hundred- percent reserve...

...George S. Tavlas Abstract Milton Friedman claimed that Jacob Viner's views in the early 1930s on (a) the monetary origins of the Great Depression and (b) the need of expansionary open-market operations established a linkage between the 1930s Chicago monetary tradition and Friedman's monetarist...

...Claire Wright This article constructs a social network, based on informal seminar attendance, for intellectuals living and working in Vienna in the 1920s. A range of primary and secondary sources has been used to compile a dataset on the duration, operation, and membership of informal seminars...

... Committee (TECO) operated to provide knowledge and expertise to “intermediate development” Mediterranean countries. TECO, through a network of experts, concentrated and disseminated data, ideas, and economic policy practices to promote the “modernization” of countries not fully integrated...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert Guy Numa is justified in calling attention to our erroneous translation of a passage from Jules Dupuit’s Dictionnaire article of 1853. His conclusions, however, regarding Dupuit’s “global” policy prescriptions on the operation of railroads, and their semi...

...Judy L. Klein In October 1956 the RAND Corporation established the Logistics Systems Laboratory (LSL), with the goal of using simulation to translate the broad findings of normative microeconomics into detailed, implementable procedures for US Air Force operations. The laboratory was housed...

... by the strongest “silent” response. This cumulative effects (CE) model has been tested in operant conditioning experiments that show, for example, that when choosing between two identical probabilistic choices in a “two-armed bandit” situation, animals will fixate on one if the payoff probabilities are high...

... and future Nobel laureate A. V. Hill, the brother-in-law of J. M. Keynes; see Hill 1960 : 265–67, 306–10), practical military and naval requirements in World War II gave a tremendous stimulus to the development of the mathematical techniques that became known in the United States as operations research...

... be defined as separating infrastructure, which remains a monopoly, from services, so that independent operators could compete over common or parallel tracks (or waterways). 4. Mosca (1998, 276n51) briefly mentions the sessions of March 1853 and December 1861. But Dupuit’s interventions...