... that encouraged team input, improved performance under stress, roughly in line with Hirschman's “psychological attitudes” and willingness to face down difficulties. Correspondence may be addressed to Neil De Marchi, Duke University, at [email protected] . Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...) found Hirschman’s emphasis on mind a dubious placing of faith in an “elusive” variable. This was ironic in the light of the psychologists’ success in the spotter training project at RAND and already published accounts of that success. The project drew out increased group performance under...

... and Frank Knight), and continental Europe (Wilhelm Röpke) saw liberalism as being under threat in the 1930s. After pro­ viding an account of the atmosphere in LSE and Chicago, stressing the variety of posi- tions held by the leading figures, Burgin explores the reactions to Walter Lippmann’s The Good...

...) saw liberalism as being under threat in the 1930s. After pro­ viding an account of the atmosphere in LSE and Chicago, stressing the variety of posi- tions held by the leading figures, Burgin explores the reactions to Walter Lippmann’s The Good Society (1937). This leads into an account...

... and Frank Knight), and continental Europe (Wilhelm Röpke) saw liberalism as being under threat in the 1930s. After pro­ viding an account of the atmosphere in LSE and Chicago, stressing the variety of posi- tions held by the leading figures, Burgin explores the reactions to Walter Lippmann’s The Good...

... in a socialist community” (S213). Thus, one must exam- ine why Mises thought that task would be performed well under capi- talism. The majority of people have no anticipatory ability (S205). The only way to judge who has that ability is see who has previously anticipated well. The market does...

... CCC 0018-2702/88/$1.50 Marx, Malthus, and wages Allin Cottrell and William A. Darity Jr. I Did Marx hold that under mature capitalism the wages of the mass of the working class must be subject to a secular downward tendency? If so, did he have a coherent...

... tool elaborated by them in order to study the complex dynamic processes under consideration. In the following section we show that Blaug’s main criticism of the Sraffian interpretation cannot be sustained. Section 3 then turns to Blaug’salternative characterization of what he callsthe “core...

... under the stress of a possible intrusion of Soviet bomb- ers into US air space. Kennedy was also interested in how they learn to improve their performance in response to stress. RAND accepted the pro- posal, and Kennedy began planning a man-machine simulation of an Air Force system with two more...

...’ .” Operations Research 50 , no. 1 : 1 – 2 . Arrow Kenneth Arrow Selma . 1950a . “ A Critical Analysis of the Stanford Research Institute Report ‘Cost-Performance Relationships for Airframes and Turbojet Engines’ .” RAND Document D-714 . RAND Corporation Library, Santa Monica...

... was recognized as an apparent conflict of goals regarding growth, full employment, and price stability. He stressed the interdependence between economic and distributional policies in political public finance. Economic structure and performance Until now, I have dealt with forms...

... 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...

... and comparatively full employment” and deficits in “periods of deflation and abnormally high unemployment,” but it stressed that the effective- ness of fiscal policy was limited “because economic forecasting is highly imperfect at present and tax and expenditure policies under present procedures are very...

... exactly should be, and how and to whom it should be held to account on its performance. Yet it would seem to be of little use to claim anything for “independence” as such, and it may even be posi- tively misleading to sell independence as a free lunch when what really matters is the precise form...

... in Aristotle: Schumpeter argues that “Aristotle’s performance is . . . decorous, pedestrian, slightly mediocre and more than slightly pompous common sense.”2 Polanyi, on the other hand, believes that Aristotle attacked “the problem of man’s livelihood with a radicalism of which no later writer...

...Walter Eltis By David Colander. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2001. x; 203 pp.$75.00. 2003 166 Book Reviews may continue to stress that re-switching is a distinct theoretical possibility” or that “pragmatic defenders of orthodoxy may rest content with the cumulating evidence...

... distinguished elements of the sort stressed, ’re- spectively, by Walras and by Keynes (or Frisch). Under certain circumstances 22. This seems to have been Boisguilbert’s conclusion. See T,ii, 1, 10; DR, 6. 76 History of Political Economy 16:l (1984) this might almost be ignored, since...

... structures) and potentially relevant variables. He stressed the need to consider variables endogenous to the firm as well as the external factors. He tacitly hypothesized a one-way line of causality from market struc- tures to performance. In doing so he provided a frame of analysis...

... comparison with another principle,” that is, “the ‘Cooperative System of Industry under which “all labourers become capitalists” (Thompson 1969, 4-5; original stress deleted). This corresponds closely to Thompson’s earlier analysis of the “different modes of production and distribution” (1963...

... Jevons’s thoughts till the end of his life. But the seeds of differences were already there. Jevons elaborates that “active use of the mind,” means stimulation of the “process of judgement which the mind performs” using “mechanical devices” and says it is possible to get at conclusions...