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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (4): 653–673.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Nancy Churchman Public Debt Policy and Public Extravagance:
The Ricardo-Malthus Debate
Nancy Churchman
Since we have known each other, [Malthus and I] have always freely
discussed each other’s opinions, and it is a subject of wonder to our friends that
after...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 March 2000
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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...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (S1): 227–254.
Published: 01 December 2023
... social security. The analysis of the public debate shows how two landmarks of the Chilean model, namely, its legitimacy as a development path and the exclusive right of economists to discuss the economy, were subjected to questioning. The columnists' debate reflects a model in crisis that contrasts...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... confusion to the public debate over women's economic position. These dynamics showcase how technical choices made in the identification of stylized facts, such as statistical controls, are simultaneously deeply political choices. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 114–136.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Susan Howson It is hard to think of a more committed public intellectual in Britain in the twentieth century than Lionel Robbins—except, of course, John Maynard Keynes. For six decades Robbins engaged in public debate on economic policy issues in lectures and talks, contributions to newspapers...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 217–258.
Published: 01 April 2024
...David Spector Abstract As in other industrialized countries, cartelization was widespread in France after the 1870s. Cartels, and the public policy toward them, were frequently addressed in the public debate. This article deals with the stance taken by French economists on this subject until...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (2): 275–306.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the functioning and policy recommendations of the council. Retracing their debates on internal and public issues using archival sources shows how the Colombian experience marked their views on the role of policy advisers, development policy, and the obstacles to development processes. Our main contribution...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 519–538.
Published: 01 June 2020
...James Tomlinson In the context of the recent spread of public and academic concern with economic inequality, this paper examines the evolution of British social democratic thinking about inequality, linking this evolution to the changing debates within economics on this issue. The discussion...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 20–37.
Published: 01 December 2013
... policymakers and the public what Fisher regarded as the lessons of economic science. Fisher’s dissertation, on general equilibrium analysis, was removed from political debate, but early works such as “The Mechanics of Bimetallism” (1894) and Appreciation and Interest (1896) responded to contemporary agitation...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (4): 679–721.
Published: 01 November 2010
... reputation among his contemporaries. The article examines the academic circumstances that led Veblen to undertake the translation; the direct pertinence of a volume on public finance to the American tax reform debates of the 1890s; and the translation's possible significance for Veblen's own intellectual...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 174–198.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and greater demand for responsive government, voluntary exchange theory emerged in the 1880s as a competitor to models that represented government as a monolithic decision maker. That voluntary exchange has faded out of the public finance literature belies the role it served launching the public goods debate...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (1): 123–148.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for Alfred Marshall and A. C. Pigou. In Italy the double taxation of savings was endorsed by Luigi Einaudi and was the object of heated debate among Italian public finance scholars. The expenditure tax should have followed from the theorem of double taxation as a corollary, and indeed, it was proposed...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 473–497.
Published: 01 June 2020
... poorest had faired under a decade of centralized planning. Even this did not cause much of a stir, since more than a decade had elapsed between the collection of data and the committee s conclusions. What had opened to much national debate and controversy zzled without much attention or public debate...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 315–342.
Published: 01 December 2010
... scientists (mainly sociologists and political scientists) to the economists' growing influence, by studying the debates regarding the possible creation of a Council of Social Advisers, which would complement the work of economists as public policy advisers. Although critical of economics, many other social...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 191–219.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Friedman’s proposed solutions to contemporary economic problems. Galbraith’s series, by contrast, relied on public financing, adopted an ironic and self-reflective stance toward its medium, and maintained a posture of uncertainty in regard to contemporary economic debates. Free to Choose proved the more...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 619–653.
Published: 01 August 2022
... publications, which strengthened the role of the Phillips curve in shaping the debates. Business organizations and senators used references to the trade-off to undermine the bill and favor the integration of an inflation target. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 655–686.
Published: 01 August 2022
... himself closed the debate with a rejoinder. These five addresses were published in the Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association (Dimand 1998c : 131) in 1921 and inaugurated a period in which the test—also commonly referred to as the axiomatic—approach to index numbers prevailed...
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History of Political Economy 11773500.
Published: 12 February 2025
...Gabriel F. Benzecry; Nicholas Jensen; Daniel J. Smith Abstract There is a long-standing debate about whether the central hypothesis of F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom , warning of the incompatibility between socialism and democracy, extended to welfare states. The empirical validity of Hayek's...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Carl Wennerlind After its success in the Thirty Years’ War, Sweden harbored ambitions to establish an empire. To sustain its efforts, statesmen realized the need to generate more domestic wealth. The ensuing debates gave rise to an improvement discourse, centered on the harnessing of Sweden’s...
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History of Political Economy 11642404.
Published: 04 December 2024
... ideas. His legitimacy in postwar Germany stemmed from his public opposition to war financing and warnings about inflation during the Donner-Benning Debate of 1942–43. In this tradition, the early Bundesbank was Weberian rather than ordoliberal, so, for instance, fixed exchange rates were favored...
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