... Operations in Dollars. Actuarial Note No. 117. U.S. Social Security Board. 1937 . Social Security in America . Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. More about the Funding Basis of the United States Social Security Program in Its Early Days Robert J. Myers Bruno Stein (199 1...

....” Economics and Philosophy 1 ( April ): 23 -37. Weintraub , E. Roy 1985b . General equilibrium analysis: studies in appraisal . Cambridge. Weintraub , E. Roy 1985c . ‘The neo-Walrasian program is empirically progressive.’ Preliminary draft presented in December of a paper to appear...

...: Program and Scope. Edited by Kurt Dopfer. Boston: Kluwer, 2001. 374 pp. Cloth $125.00. Modern evolutionary economics has been one of the most impressive developments in the social sciences in the last twenty years. Although there are precedents in the works of Alfred Marshall, Thorstein Veblen...

... feature of the program. Thus the natural rate was shifted from center stage in the tests conducted within the program and Erom the center of the discussion. The focus shifted to the proposition that expected movements in policy could not influence trends in the real economic var- iables...

... by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/85/$1.50 Some reactions to Jevons’ mathematical program: the case of Cairnes and Mill Margaret Schabas I Although William Stanley Jevons intended his Theory of politicul economy (1871...

... Powerful Economics Program . Edited by Robert van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas A. Stapleford. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . lii; 399 pp. Hardback $110.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Johnson Harry . 1971 . “ The Keynesian...

... was going through important changes, informed by its mathematization, by the stabilization of a neoclassical way of doing economics, by the advancement of econometrics and the “Keynesian revolution,” and by the Americanization of economics. The MIT PhD program in economics was created only in 1941 but very...

...William Darity, Jr.; Arden Kreeger We examine the history of the entry of black American graduate students into the PhD program in economics at MIT in the 1970s. The deployment of an active and aggressive affirmative action program led to the presence of a critical mass of black doctoral students...

...Julien Duval Abstract This article deals with a French TV program that was launched in the late 1980s and that is devoted to the economic dimensions of life. It became very popular and still exists today. This article proposes an analysis of this unprecedented success in France, through diversified...

... in the Methodology of Research Pro- grams. Edited by Neil de Marchi and Mark Blaug. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. 566 pp. $109.95 There is ample evidence in this volume of papers and commentary from the Con- ference on Alternative Research Programs in Recent Economics, held in Capri, Italy...

... wages, a feature that was contested soon after, on empirical grounds, by Dunlop and Tarshis. An ambitious research program integrating macroeconomics and imperfect competition was elaborated to reconcile theory and observations, but was suddenly discontinued. This program was sufficiently ripe...

... than on the formal conformity of data and economic programs with expectations of the IMF bureaucracy. For programs and statistics to be considered consistent , tables of estimates must be filled out, even when data are missing, and the economic diagnosis must comply with monetarist-dominant...

...Evelyn L. Forget The Office of Economic Opportunity was established, under the leadership of Sargent Shriver, to fight President Johnson's War on Poverty as part of the Great Society program. Between 1964 and 1968, two intellectual communities vied for supremacy within that office. In the early...

...” was then shaped during the fifties, one influenced by the demands of engineers, scientists, and business students, and somewhat eclipsed by the promising interdisciplinary research programs emerging in the newly founded Center for International Studies. During the sixties, MIT economists instantiated the vision...

...Donna Zapf As dean of Duke University’s Graduate School, Craufurd Goodwin initiated the foundation of a Graduate Liberal Studies program. This essay pays tribute to his contribution to the program as an administrator and teacher over three decades. It describes Goodwin’s thoughts about graduate...

...D. Wade Hands Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)—they all share common features...

...Matthieu Renault Abstract Edmond Malinvaud's case is peculiar in the history of macroeconomics as he committed to two different microfoundational programs, namely, the disequilibrium theory (more properly, the non-Walrasian approach) and the practice of large-scale macroeconomic modeling...

... SOFE were used experimentally, and indeed partially applied in plan implementations. The last act of SOFE came with the incorporation of many of its ideas in the final Soviet reform—Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika. I survey the evolution of the SOFE research program and its policy recommendations...

... Terman. We show that engineers drew upon economic theories of decision and allocation to improve practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering the tools that they needed to rethink production and growth theory (including linear programming, optimal control...