.... William J. Barber, Wesleyan University Profit and Enterprise: The Political Economy of Profit. By David Parker and Richard Stead. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. 201 pp. $49.95. In Profit and Enterprise: The Political Economy of Proft, David Parker and Rich- ard Stead briefly review...

..., “Sraffa . . . was making a criticism of economic theory as a prelude to making a reconstruction of it” (Goodwin and Punzo 1988, 48). But Goodwin rejects Sraffa’s equating of labor and capital and the suggestion of a monetary base of interest and profit. Rather, the proper base of analysis...

... Press CCC 0018-2702/91/$1.50 Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit Rene‘e Prendergast In his discussion of the component parts of the price of commodities in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith emphasized that in exchanging...

... History of Political Economy I9:4 0 1987 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/87/$1.50 Technical progress and values in Marx’s theory of the decline in the rate of profit: an exegetical...

...Geert Reuten Correspondence may be addressed to Geert Reuten, Department of Economics,University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;e-mail: [email protected] . Duke University Press 2004 Cullenberg, Stephen. 1994 . The Falling Rate of Profit: Recasting...

... . The Therapeutic Quality of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Paper presented at History of Economics Society meeting, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va. Emmett , Ross B. 1997 . Reflections on “Breaking Away”: Economics as Science and the History of Economics as the History of Science...

... Book Reviews 161 Marxian Economics, a Reappraisal: Essays on Volume III of Capital. Volume 1: Method, Value, and Money. Volume 2: Profit, Prices, and Dynamics. Edited by Riccardo Bellofiori. New York: St. Martin’s Press; Houndsmills: Macmillan, 1998...

...Richard van den Berg Modern disagreements about the question to what extent Richard Cantillon anticipated the classical theory of profit and interest are, at least to some extent, due to ambiguities in his writings. New insights into his thinking can be obtained from considering, besides the French...

... 0 1982 by Duke University Press Adam Smith, empiricism, and the rate of profit in eighteenth-century England Philip Mirowski I. Adam Smith and Empiricism There exists a recent trend in discussions of the philosophy of science which has, even more recently, made...

...KATHLEEN M. LANGLEY Mark Obrinsky. Oxford: Martin Robertson and Company Ltd.; and Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Pp. xii, 177. £16.50. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 BOOK REVIEWS Profit theory and capitalism. By Mark Obrinsky. Oxford: Martin...

... Smith. University of Illinois SALIMRASHID Religious poverty and the pro$t economy in medieval Europe. By Lester K. Little. Ithaca, New York: Come11 University Press, 1983. Pp. 267. $8.95. Lester Little’s Religious poverty and the profit economy in medieval...

... History of Political Economy 17:3 0 1985 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/85/$1.50 The role of profits in Physiocratic economics Gianni Vaggi I. Introduction This article shows...

... of public concern. While economists then and now adduced monetary causes for the price increases, popular theories blamed the tariff, monopolies, middlemen, profiteers, supply and demand, lazy farmers, incompetent housewives, and more. These explanations supported important political positions, and they had...

... was to be accompanied by rejecting acquisitiveness for its own sake. Consumption was to be moderate in all its forms, profits not obtained by unlawful and dishonest means, and property accumulated only if a portion of the gains is given to the deserving poor, and the invested capital useful to the church...

..., Henry George deserves at least a new hearing. Lindholm and Lynn have put together a book that should be useful to anyone wanting a voice at the trial. University of Northern Iowa KENMCCORMICK Growth, profits and property. Edited by Edward J. Nell. Cambridge...

...Philipp Bagus; David Howden; Amadeus Gabriel; Eva María Carrasco Bañuelos Did Ludwig von Mises err in attributing the idea that “no man profits but by the loss of another” to Michel de Montaigne, as Casto Martín Montero Kuscevic and Marco Antonio del Río Rivera claim? In this brief comment we...

...Neri Salvadori; Rodolfo Signorino This article proposes a rational reconstruction of the arguments of Malthus and Ricardo in their 1815 essays, Grounds of an Opinion and An Essay on Profits , whereby a policy of free corn trade was repudiated and endorsed, respectively. Malthus envisaged defense...

... himself was committed to mathematics since he could earn recognition without exposing himself as a person. This essay presents his life and career in light of this personal need for protection by mathematical purity. My account profited from Debreu‘s personal papers as well as the memories of former...

... was just the result of personal stubborness with no analytical benefit. Quite to the contrary, it was the only defense Ricardo could find against Malthus' destructive criticism, which introduced an unacceptable degree of indetermination in his theory of profits. By adopting the labor theory of value...

... of the long-run growth in fertilizer use by US farmers. In this research Griliches developed theoretical explanations of these phenomena in the form of narratives of rational, profit-seeking people responding to changing circumstances and novel information, and he used these narratives to inform his decisions...