...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...

...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...

...James D. Tracy Usury and Public Debt in Early Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo Ridolfi on the Monte Commune. By Lawrin Armstrong. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies , 2003 . 460 pp . 2006 Brucker, Gene A. 1977 . The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence...

...C. Tyler DesRoches Economics, Ethics, and Ancient Thought: Towards a Virtuous Public Policy . By Richards Donald G. New York : Routledge , 2017 . 188 pp. $120.00 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Crespo Ricardo F. 2014 . A Re-assessment...

...Tony Aspromourgos Reference Aspromourgos Tony . 2018 . “ Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates .” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40 ( 4 ): 493 – 512 . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 The Political Economy of Public Debt: Three...

...Malcolm Rutherford Walter Lippmann: Public Economist . By Goodwin Craufurd D. . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2014 . x ; 414 pp . Hardback $35.00 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews The Political and Economic Thought of the Young...

...Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay This paper provides a narrative of the emergence of the standard textbook definition of public goods. It focuses on Richard A. Musgrave's contribution in defining public goods as nonrival and nonexcludable—from 1937 to 1973. Although Samuelson's mathematical definition...

..., and the Federalist Papers . Carbondale, Ill. Mackie , J. L. 1980 . Hume's Moral Theory . London. Mandeville , B. [1714] 1988 . The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Public Benefits . Edited by F. B. Kaye. 2 vols. Indianapolis. This edition first published 1924. Mandeville , B. [1732...

... Smith and Modern Economics: From Market Behaviour to Public Choice. By Edwin G. West. Brookfield, Ver.: Edward Elgar, 1990. vii, 212 pp. $47.95. Although not likely to suit everyone’s appetite, this very readable volume is a hermeneutic feast. An exercise in selective celebration...

...Stefano Toso In conclusion, it seems to us that even M. de la Palisse could summarize with short and precise arguments the issue of whether, and when, public debts burden present or future generations.—Maffeo Pantaleoni, “Imposta e prestito in riguardo alla loro pressione” Dipartimento di...

... ra- tional-expectations equilibria to the case of non-degenerate probability distribu- tions). University of California, Santu Burburu STEPHENF. LEROY Deuth is u sot-id di.sease: public heulth und politicwl economy in eurly industrid France. By William Coleman. Madison...

... 1986 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/86/$ I .50 Gladstonian finance and the Virginia School of public finance: comment Charles G. Leathers I Baysinger and Tollison (BT) have described W. E. Gladstone’s fiscal pol...

... to be an injury to the public, and the real cause of the present exorbitant price of provisions (London: J. S. Jordan), [iii]-iv, [9]-47 pp. A second and a third edition were published in 1797, a fourth in 1800, and a fifth in 1801. Anderson , William] 1997b . The iniquity of banking. Part II...

... . Book review of De Viti de Marco's Principii di economia finanziaria. Economica , no. 3: 365 -67. Benham , Frederick 1934b . ‘Notes on the pure theory of public finance (suggested by the “Ottima Imposta” of Professor Einaudi).’ Economica , no. 4: 436 -58. Bonar , James 1922...

...) Private Money and Public Currencies: The 16th Century Challenge. By M. T. Boyer-Xambeu, G. Deleplace, and L. Gillard. Translated by Amonk Azizeh Azodi. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994.230 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.95. This little book, as it stands, will probably be a bit of a shock...

...Philip Mirowski Theodore Porter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. xiv, 310 pp. $24.95. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 References Forman , Paul. 1995 . Review of Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Science...

...Herbert Fergus Thomson, Jr. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Lauderdale’s Early Pamphlets on Public Finance (1796-1799) Herbert Fergus Thomson, Jr. L AUDERDALE ’S four pamphlets on public finance...

...Bradley Bateman By Martin J. Burke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xvii; 303 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $16.95. 2000 HOPE 32.2-08.BookReviews 5/10/00 12:42 PM Page 400 400 Book Reviews The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse...

... The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776–1836. By Donald R. Stabile. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. xii; 208 pp. $59.95. Alexander Hamilton was right, and his opponents were wrong...