...Till Düppe; E. Roy Weintraub In fall 1935, Abraham Wald presented a fixed-point proof of a general equilibrium model to Karl Menger's Mathematical Colloquium in Vienna. Due to limited space, the paper could not be printed in the eighth proceedings of the colloquium (the Ergebnisse ) published...

.... History of Political Economy 14:l 0 1982 by Duke University Press Henry Thornton: a mise au point Philippe Bea ugr-und I In a recent article Professor C. F. Peake (Peake 1978) argued for the importance of Henry...

...Louis A. Dow Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Malthus on sticky wages, the upper turning point, and general glut Louis A. Dow In recent years a small but growing body of literature reevaluating Thomas Robert Malthus’ position in the development...

..., and Philip Mirowski. 1994 . The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical Economics. Science in Context 7 : 245 –72. The Trade-Off between Rigor and Relevance: Sraffi an Economics as a Case in Point Mark Blaug There is a trade-off in economics (and elsewhere) between rigor...

...Alain Alcouffe; David Le Bris Abstract Economist turned entrepreneur Say was uncertain about his future in 1814 when he was commissioned by the French government to document British industrial progress at a critical point of the industrial takeoff. This trip offered the opportunity to observe...

... Kapital) . Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. ____. 1971 . Shakai Ninshiki no Ayumi(Steps of social recognition) . Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. Yagi, Kiichiro. [1999] 2000 . Bureaucrats and Economists . In Ikeo [1999] 2000. History of Economics in Japan: A Turning Point Aiko Ikeo Japanese historians...

... Predictions of Daniel and St. John, 1774; this must surely be a spoof). If Burney used Cox’s Museum to point up the debate between ingenuity and utility, William Mason in his “Epistle to Dr. Shebbeare” (quoted at the opening of my essay; Toyn- bee 1928, 112) turns the Museum into a model of corrupt...

...Bradley W. Bateman Finally, it is necessary to refer to a doctrine which may, from one point of view, be regarded as the core of the whole book. —Roy Harrod Part III., “Induction and Analogy,” is the most important in the book from the point of view of philosophy and theory of knowledge. —Bertrand...

...Guy Numa In this article, I analyze and compare the contributions of Dupuit and Walras on the natural monopoly of railroads. Both theorists argued that railroads—as opposed to inland waterways—could not be vertically unbundled, a point that previous authors who compared their views failed to point...

... to David Ricardo, including John Stuart Mill, and Marx himself. The contributions made by continental Cameralists to the shaping of the political economy of modern capitalism on the other hand have tended to be overlooked. The present paper discusses the wider epistemic vantage points of the present...

... countries. The article points to four different functions of narrative in economic reasoning: as a sense-making technology, as a tool of persuasion, to fill in gaps and correct quantitative reasoning, and to link alternative policy measures to changes in parameters and variable inputs in complex econometric...

..., and his works on Soviet statistics. It is shown how World War II affected Bettelheim from an intellectual point of view, with his study of the German economy at war, and from an institutional point of view, as his encounters during the war proved instrumental for the setting of his postwar career...

... of index numbers, they engaged in a fierce debate in the first half of the 1920s—a period marked by several quarrels on the subject. The main points in dispute between Walsh and Edgeworth were the existence of an ideal formula for index numbers and the use of probability in the measurement of price...

.... 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...

... artifacts from courses that most often survive to the point of archival storage. An important question is just how well does the limited information in a syllabus and/ or exam reflect actual course content compared to, say, a near-stenographic set of student course notes. A casual comparison for a graduate...

... consider that this narrative is problematic both in terms of historiography and the effects that it can have in the field as a way of assigning importance and credit to particular macroeconomists. Indeed, the point of view of the Keynesian economists is missing despite the fact that they were the target...

... to the initial impulse of short-term economic fluctuations. From then on, they entailed a choice among competing models of business cycles. I allege that the Solow residual, highly malleable and easily decomposable from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view, turned to be a clear-cut—although porous...

... the standard dichotomy between rational and historical reconstructions. Most of the time, authors of such pieces disclose their historiographic preferences and provide a rationale for them, pointing to the pitfalls of the methods they feel should be rejected. They may also address the issue of current...

...Christopher Bliss The paper examines the so-called Cambridge post-Keynesians from the point of view of one who was exposed to them as an undergraduate, with the addition of some mature thoughts. As confirmed by Luigi Pasinetti in his 2007 book Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: A “Revolution...

...Philipp Rössner The article offers a new interpretation of Martin Luther as an economic thinker, as well as the monetary economic origins of the Reformation of 1517. The argument is presented in six sections. The first one outlines key points in Luther's biography relevant for the present purpose...