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History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (2): 214–233.
Published: 01 June 1980
...Melvin Cross; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. History of Political Economy 12:2 o 1980 by Duke University Press A. T. Hadley on monopoly theory and railway regulation: an American contribution...
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History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (1): 49–64.
Published: 01 March 1986
... and political economy.’ Oxford Economic Papers 15 . 3 : 204 -16. Cournot , A. A. 1960 . Researches into the mathematical principles on the theory of wealth (1838), trans. N. T. Bacon. Reprinted, New York. Ekelund , R. 1971 . ‘Economic empiricism in the writing of early railway engineers...
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History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (2): 213–239.
Published: 01 June 1979
... con- tributions to public administration and public policy. In fact, Chad- wick’s name is instantly recognizable in the .history of economic pol- icy.s But we argue that Chadwick’s proposed theoretical solution to the British railway “problem” has a very general...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (1): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to imply. In a literal sense, a statement either says what it says or it doesn’t. But meaning—particularly in terms of policy implications that can be drawn from explicit statements—depends on statement and context. Ironically, while Numa recounts the historical context of French railway manage...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (1): 69–95.
Published: 01 March 2012
... out. Moreover, until now, Dupuit’s analysis of the railroad monopolies before the Société d’économie politique had been overlooked. This article fills this gap in the literature by showing that Dupuit and Walras both concluded that railroads were better managed under the monopoly regime; however...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Nicola Giocoli The controversy over railroad rates regulation was a fundamental component of the jurisprudential trajectory that culminated in Lochner v. New York (1905) and the so-called laissez-faire era of U.S. constitutional law. Constitutional protection of property required that regulation...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 206–225.
Published: 01 December 2012
... immigrants, who cannot make sense of the circumstances in which they find themselves. One is Hooven, a German veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, who lives with the foggy memory of his heroism at Sedan. Another is Dyke, an idealist who gives up his job with the railroad to become a hop farmer. All...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 5. Fragment of Marshall's large chronological plate of events, showing Marshall's categories in red and a sequence of events in black, such as the first railway in England, the Poor Law, or the invention of lucifer matches, but also generic and recurring labels such as “crisis.” More
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History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (4): 567–583.
Published: 01 November 1983
... exception: in response to what he considered was a mounting threat to economic stability caused by the high level of railway investment James Wilson published a series of articles in the Economist between 1845 and 1847 in which he predicted an imminent economic crisis.* Wilson had...
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History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (4): 601–623.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of modern economics. History of Political Economy 4 . 2 : 364 -78. Black , R. D. C. , and Rosamond Könekamp, 1972 . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons . Vol. 1. London. Bostaph , Samuel , and Yeung-nan Shieh. 1986 . W. S. Jevons and Lardner's Railway economy History...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 655–678.
Published: 01 November 2003
.... 1979 . In Defense of the Long-Haul/Short-Haul Discrimination. Bell Journal of Economics 10 : 706 -8. Hotelling, Harold. 1938 . The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates. Econometrica 6 : 242 -69. Lardner, D. [1850] 1968 . Railway Economy...
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History of Political Economy (1971) 3 (1): 208–223.
Published: 01 March 1971
... to the work of anobher engineer-Dionysius Lardner’s Railway Economy.2 Jevons cited Lardner in his Theory of Political Economy, but only in the prelface, and then not for the right rea~olls.~Yet it is very probable that Lardner mould...
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History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (3): 485–495.
Published: 01 September 1986
... (1946). Reprinted, New York. Ekelund Jr. Robert B. 1972 . ‘Economic empiricism in the writing of early railroad engineers.’ Explorations in Economic History 9 : 179 -96. Ekelund Jr. Robert B. , and Robert F. Hébert 1973 . ‘Public economics at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées...
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History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (4): 623–631.
Published: 01 November 1989
.... 1850. Railway economy: a treatise on the new art of transport, its management, prospects, and relations. London. Lekachman, Robert. 1959. A history of economic ideas. New York. Pell, M. B. 1858. On the application of certain principles of political economy to the question of railways...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (3): 577–608.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... [1850] 1968 . Railway Economy . New York: Kelley. Lindahl, Erik. [1919] 1958 . Just Taxation—A Positive Solution. In Classics in the Theory of Public Finance , edited by Richard Musgrave and A. T. Peacock. New York:St. Martin's. Marshall, Alfred. [1890] 1920 . Principles of Economics . 8th...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (4): 636–668.
Published: 01 November 1978
... . Kuhn , W. E. The Evolution of Economic Thought . Cincinnati, 1970 . Lardner , Dionysius Railway Economy . 1850 ; reprinted New York, 1968. Marglin , S. A. Public Investment Criteria . Cambridge, Mass., 1967 . Marshall , Alfred Industry and Trade . 3d edition. London...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2001
... economist-engineers turn out to include a great variety of interesting writers,such as René Tavernier,who wrote on self-selection and second- degree price discrimination; Wilhelm von Nördling,an Austrian railway engineer who studied at ENPC and who published a mathematical formula for elasticity in 1886...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... ____. 1911-13 . Contributions to the Theory of Railway Rates. Economic Journal 21 (September, December 1911): 346 -70,551-71; 22 (June 1912): 198 -218; 23 (June 1913): 206 -26. Ekelund, Robert B., Jr. 1967 . A Critical Evaluation of Jules Dupuit's Contributions to Economic Theory and Policy...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (4): 522–534.
Published: 01 November 1977
... they are all alike14 Illustrated is the familiar short-run Figure 1 11. See, for example, Chamberlin, Monopolistic Competirion, pp. 191-93. 12. The controversy began with F.W.Taussig’s “A Contribution to the Theory of Railway Rates,” Quarterly Journal ofEconomics...
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History of Political Economy (1974) 6 (1): 109–113.
Published: 01 March 1974
... century have been almost totally neglected by historians of economic thought. Von Thunen’s contribution has long been ac- cepted, of course; and in I935 Erich Schneider advanced the name of a railway engineer, Wilhelm Launhardt, as an original contributor to spatial...