..., Ether, and the Circulation of Materials in Quesnay's Theory of Nature and the Economy. Paper presented at the Tricentenaire de la Naissance de François Quesnay, Versaille, France, June . ____. 1994b . Fire, Motion, and Productivity: The Proto-Energetics of Nature and Economy in François Quesnay...

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... University Press CCC 00 18-2702/85/$1.50 The consistency of Marx’s categories of productive and unproductive labour David Leadbeater In many current popular debates and reports on the direction of economic policy, particularly as it bears...

.... $47.50. The Production of Commodities: An Introduction to Sraffa. By J. E. Woods. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities, 1990. xii, 345 pp. $49.95. These three interesting and stimulating books will be of varying interest to historians of economics. The Woods book, for example, contains...

... errors. The “Productivity Norm” versus Zero Inflation in the History of Economic Thought George Selgin The idea that general macroeconomic stability requires stability of output prices has a long history. It can be traced to preclassical economists such as John Law (1705...

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... of Development: Increased Consumption Raises Productivity Cosimo Perrotta 1. Introduction This article examines the relationship between consumption and produc- tion in the pre-Smithian economics literature, from the last decade of the seventeenth century onward. It sets out to show...

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...Arrigo Opocher Correspondence may be addressed to Arrigo Opocher, Dipartimento di scienze economiche, Via del Santo 33, 35123 Padova, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2006 Exchange and Production Equations: Understanding a Debate between Harrod...

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.... Seidel, Siegfried. 1991 . Zur Position Ernst Apels. In Kahlschlag. Das 11. Plenum des ZK der SED 1965 , edited by Günter Agde. Berlin: Aufbau. Siegelbaum, Lewis H. 1988 . Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 . Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. ____. 1992...

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.... Lives in Synopsis: The Production and Use of Short Biographies by Historians of Economics Roger E. Backhouse Brevity is the soul of wit. —Shakespeare, Hamlet To preserve . . . a becoming brevity...

... Choice . London: Routledge. Bianchi , Marina . 1998b . Taste for Novelty and Novel Tastes. In Bianchi 1998a. Bianchi , Marina . 1998c . Design and Efficiency: New Capabilities Embedded in New Products . Cassino, Italy: University of Cassino. Unpublished manuscript. Cohen , Joshua...

...: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760–1960 . Vol. 1 of 3. London: Barrie and Rockliff. Weatherill , Lorna . 1996 . Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660–1760 . 2d ed. London: Routledge. Production and Reproduction: Commerce in Images in Late-Eighteenth-Century London...

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... on the unpublished papers of the Council on Prices, Productivity, and Incomes and other published sources, the present article throws fresh light on why the curve paper failed to influence policymaking. At least two reasons may account for this. First, by the late 1950s and early 1960s, works based on inferential...