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...Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay The ancient Greek conception of oikonomia is often dismissed as irrelevant for making sense of the contemporary economic world. In this paper, I emphasize a thread that runs through the history of economic thought connecting the oikos to modern public economics...

... . The Cameralists: A Public Choice Perspective. Public Choice 53 : 3 -20. Becker, Gary. 1983 . A Theory of Competition among Pressure Groups for Political Influence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 98 : 371 -400. Benham, Fredric. 1934 . Review of Principii di economia finanziaria, by Antonio de Viti...

...Nancy Churchman Department of Economics. Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive. Ottawa. ON K1S 5B6. Canada. An earlier version of this article forms one chapter of my University of Toronto Ph.D. dissertation, “David Ricardo on Public Debt” (1997). Copyright © 1999 by Duke University...

...Marianne Johnson This article examines the institutionalization of public finance as a subfield of economics in American universities from the founding of professional academic economics departments in the 1880s through the eve of the Great Depression. It is argued that what became identified...

...Tony Aspromourgos This essay examines Keynes’s views on public debt, taking as its point of departure his 1943 confrontation with Abba Lerner on the issue. It also exhaustively considers the wider intellectual relationship between the two men, as well as Keynes’s other commentaries on public debt...

...Tiago Mata; Steven G. Medema The essays in this volume examine the economist as public intellectual. Rather than assessing the changing status of the public intellectual in culture or attempting to define the identity of the public intellectual, our approach is to study the public interventions...

...Robert W. Dimand The American economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947) combined his work as a scientific economist, addressed to his fellow economists, with sustained and vigorous participation in public discourse, trying to change public policy and to reform attitudes and behavior by teaching...

...Chris Godden Many interwar British economists actively engaged in public economic discourse. Any investigation into these popular economic writings forces the historian to appreciate the frailty, novelty, and, most importantly, sheer extent of the material available. Such popular (nonacademic...

... was not the conventional one, for it involved recognizing inner circles within the elite discourse of politicians and journalists as well as between those circles and the public. This essay uses this framework, involving attempts to communicate across different boundaries, to view his well-known series of works...

... on public opinion, serving in government where he was involved at the highest levels, and working in the private sector in which he had close friends. He adopted the macroeconomics of his close friend John Maynard Keynes, and he became best known for his warning against the dangers in the spread of monopoly...

...Rob Roy McGregor; Warren Young In this essay, we focus on three district Federal Reserve Bank presidents who took on the role of public intellectual in the 1970s and early 1980s. They reflected their districts’ economic concerns, presenting them and their own views at the Federal Open Market...

...Angus Burgin In 1977 John Kenneth Galbraith hosted the documentary series The Age of Uncertainty on public television; three years later Milton Friedman hosted a competing series, Free to Choose . This essay examines the development of these two projects, examining both the institutions...

...Gil Eyal; Moran Levy This essay argues that the term public intellectual is too narrow for historical research about the public influence of economists and economic expertise. We propose, instead, the concept of public interventions to inform a more comprehensive approach that broadens...

... their first attempts, made independently from each other, to their joint venture on the Internet through The Becker-Posner Blog . In our description of their independent and then collaborative experiences, differences appear between Becker and Posner about how to be a public intellectual, but also...

...Philip Mirowski; Edward Nik-Khah We explore recent arguments that economists may not serve to enlighten their publics so much as foster surplus confusion and doubt concerning controversies in their areas of expertise, particularly with regard to the recent worldwide economic crisis. After...

... , James “La scienza delle finanze: The Italian Tradition in Public Finance.” In Fiscal Theory and Political Economy , by James M. Buchanan (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960 ). Buchanan , James The Demand and Supply of Public Goods . Chicago, 1968 . Cheysson , Emile “La statistique...

... by Duke University Press Wicksell and Pareto: their relationship in the theory of public finance P. Hennipmnn I For many years a curious contrast existed between the undisputed fame of Wicksell as one of the great masters...

... of Chicago Press. Stigler , George J. 1982b . The economist as preacher. In The economist as preacher and other essays , 3–13. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Tollison , Robert D. 1982 . Rent seeking: a survey. Kyklos 48 : 244 -79. Tullock , Gordon 1971 . Public decisions...

... as preacher and other essays , 120 -43. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Anderson The butcher, the baker, and the policy maker 659 Tollison, Robert D. 1982. Rent seeking: a survey. Kyklos 48:244-79. Tullock, Gordon. 1971. Public decisions as public goods. Journal of Political...

...Vítězslav Sommer The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate...