... . Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective. Social Studies of Science 22.4 : 597 -618. Debreu, G. 1951 . The Coefficient of Resource Utilization. Econometrica 19.3 : 273 -92. Duarte, P. G. 2007a . Constructing Concepts of Optimal Monetary Policy in the Postwar Period . PhD diss., Duke...

... called the Economists’ Papers Project (EPP). Over time that archive has grown and become central to historical research on economics in the postwar period. The papers of Edwin Burmeister, Evsey Domar, Franklin Fisher, Duncan Foley, Lawrence Klein, Franco Modigliani, and Robert Solow, all MIT faculty...

... . Comment [on Aukrust]. Review of Income and Wealth 12 : 190 -93. The “Protestant” View: The Norwegian and Scandinavian Approach to National Accounting in the Postwar Period Einar Lie Around the 1930s, many countries began developing a systematic prac- tice of keeping national accounts...

... the interwar period, as a way of understanding how his investigations in the field of national income and planning finally became an essential part of his third-way perspectives, previously formulated in corporatist terms but partially reshaped in the immediate postwar period. Particular attention is paid...

... the French wars (1793-1815) and the postwar period of economic stagnation in Britain. This article is concerned with critically examining Blake’s arguments on the effect of British government war expenditure and taxes on economic activity and price inflation during the wars and then on the role...

...; and in the postwar period the focus was on plans for the reconstruction of France and then Europe more generally. All these periods generated demand for differentiated economic expertise in productivity. In 1946, the first French National Accounts were published alongside the establishment of the Commissariat...

... subject can no longer be divorced from the scientific study of governmental theory” (32). In the postwar period, Berle observed that the American economy was gradually evolving into a mixed economy in which “private and state ownership will be inextricably mixed.” He added that “this is not the result...

... the postwar period saw the emergence of a new kind of traveling economist whose task was to engineer and assess the implementation of modernization programs. In particular, the article analyzes the role of field trips in the career of Ladejinsky across Asia. The task of traveling experts was complicated...

... search and consult a few book references. Based on this dataset, I conclude that Ramsey was in fact “awake” in the economic growth literature pre-1950. I discuss as well the main economists who transported Ramsey from the Cambridge milieu of the 1920s to the North American economics of the postwar period...

...Steven G. Medema Public choice is one of the few examples of a “creative community” emerging from within the professional academic structures of economics in the postwar period. This article examines the early development of the public choice movement at the University of Virginia and how...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte The immediate postwar period witnessed not only a considerable expansion of economics graduate education in the United States but also its reformulation. Graduate education at MIT became more technical, with shorter theses on narrowly defined problems. This occurred as economics...

... point out that the immediate postwar period saw a collapse—in some places slower, in some places faster—of the barriers to the hiring of Jewish faculty in American colleges and universities. And more than any other elite private or public university, particularly Ivy League universities, MIT...

...Marianne Johnson Abstract This article considers the institutional and intellectual trajectory of Elinor Ostrom as an interdisciplinary scholar in the postwar period and how her contributions have been reframed after she became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Two distinct...

...Ivo Maes; Ilaria Pasotti Robert Triffin (1911–1993) played an important role in the international monetary debates in the postwar period. He was known as one of the main advocates of a multipolar international monetary system. In this paper we analyze the origins of Triffin’s “regional” approach...

... models, which were constructed in the postwar period, based on prewar visualizations of the eonomy, and which remain active until the present day. Please address correspondence to Verena Halsmayer, Department of Cultural and Science Studies, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, Postfach 4466...

...Raphaël Fèvre This article analyzes the ordoliberal discourse in the early postwar period (1946–50) and the way it gained traction on the political stage. My contention is that the ordoliberals sought to establish a continuity between the economic order of the Nazis and the administration...

...Michele Alacevich; Mauro Boianovsky This is the editorial introduction to the HOPE conference volume on the history of development economics. The disciplinary field of development economics has been surrounded by controversies since its inception in the postwar period. Although growth economics...

... impact on the understanding of economic dynamics in the postwar period; we attempt to explore why. Correspondence may be addressed to Mario Pomini, Department of Economics, University of Padua (e-mail: [email protected] ); and Gianfranco Tusset, Department of Economics, University of Padua (e...

... in the normative evalu- ation of human civilizations through the study of their classic texts. Ironi- cally, then, the committee’s devotion to its version of interdisciplinarity reinforced the development of disciplinary competencies in the postwar period.2 Thus telling the story of the CST and its relation...

... accounting was born out of a governmental project, implemented by institutionalist economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) during the interwar period, to manage “the business cycle.” Bridging the literatures on the history of economic policymaking of the interwar period and the postwar...