...Allin Cottrell Keynes’s Appendix to Chapter 19: A Reader’s Guide Allin Cottrell 1. Introduction In The General Theory, Keynes, as is well known, was concerned to accomplish two closely related tasks: to develop a new mode of thinking about the macroeconomy and to break free from...

...Judy L. Klein; Mary S. Morgan Duke University Press 2001 The Reader’s Essential Non-Guide to The Age of Economic Measurement Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan There is no editorial introduction or conclusion to this volume, nor is the book divided into labeled parts, nor...

...Salim Rashid Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: A Reader’s Guide . By Evensky Jerry . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . x; 284 pp. $35.99 . Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 Book Reviews Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations: A Reader’s Guide. By Jerry...

... comes shortly after the Elgar Companion to Ricardo of 2015. The potential reader may ask what purpose this new companion serves; his curiosity may grow when he discovers that it features in a series titled Companions to Sociology. Chapter 6 by Heinz Kurz, “(Mis)interpreting Ricardo,” though...

... the fundamental feeling that a work can elicit for a particular reading community and the words that actually appear on the page prompts the methodological question of how to proceed when encountering an apparent absence in a text. The reader does not possess a privileged access point from which to offer...

... his previous criticisms, adds a few new ones, but does not enter into a serious discussion of the replies to his earlier efforts. We provide an overall assessment of Blaug's various attacks on “Sraffians” and draw readers' attention to a significant change in direction in his recent one. In addition...

... readings from two North American economists with remarkably similar historical, geographical, and academic contexts provide the ideal case for exploring the manner in which readers' differing epistemological commitments shape their different readings of historical concepts and texts. The exploration...

... Brazil) between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, as an attempt to establish whether List’s readers in those countries took any notice of his point that the infant-industry argument did not apply to tropical areas and that such economies should not embark on an industrialization process...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract The main references of the social sciences and humanities are texts. Texts are the means by which social scientists communicate their ideas and the means through which we, as readers, access those same ideas. Consequently, reading can be regarded as one of the main tools...

..., and accessible terms without sacrificing technical rigor or skimping on historical context. In terms of structure, it most closely resembles Jerry Evensky's 2015 volume, Adam Smith's “ Wealth of Nations ”: A Reader's Guide , but there are key differences. Whereas one can sense a stronger rehabilitative...

... University Press, $22.50. (Original Japanese language edition, 1981 .) As readers of HOPE should know from the paper by Komiya and Yamamoto (1981, volume 13:3), the function of “economists” in Japan differs from that in the U.S. to the point that one cannot describe an individual...

... that journalists needed to trade off the ease of simply paraphrasing the words of officials against the potential benefits of writing news that is more satisfying to their readers. Having worked as an economics reporter for over twenty years, I am faced with many trade-offs and choices, but this has never been...

...” and of enhancing “the reader’s understanding of cur- rent economic writing and of the contemporary economic world” (p. xi). Clearly the most useful devices to assist the reader consist of the generous use of quotations from original sources, with page notations supplied, and the valuable...

... development that a presentation of Say’s monetary ideas merits. The objective of this work is to allow readers to discover them in the author’s texts for themselves.” The introduction accordingly touches all too briefly on “a few dimen- sions of [Say’s] ideas.” Professor Jacoud was, therefore, ill...

... publishers. With library budgets contracting as fast as the attention spans of digital-age readers, publishers need titles that are sure to sell. So what s a press to do? One tried and true path to sales is the introductory companion volume. The basic recipe is simple. Take a canonical figure in the history...

... and hence leave the read- er’s thoughts scattered and the themes unresolved. In doing so, they distract the reader from those papers that do deal with the theme the editors have chosen. In their 85-page introduction the editors discuss a variety of methodological issues, from “meaning variance...

..., is very telling, since a reader who has an acquaintance with these works finds little that is new in Sowell’s summary account of the subject. The book contains many categorical statements which, whether accurate or not, are never related to the previous literature. One feels Sowell has...

.... The final part of the book brings the discussion back to methods and rneth- odology. If a reader with limited time wanted to read only a portion of the book to get a sense of Frazer’s interpretation of Friedman, this would be the part to read. It contains a nice distillation of Frazer’s interpretive...

... of the book’s content, a critique of conventional thinking in which most mainstream economists have a stake, and its occasionally hostile tone, suggest the book will make many readers uncomfortable. It would be unfortunate, if this sensation wins out over both a more in-depth understanding...

... monarch. Despite them, the marvelous stories of the previous century resurfaced in 1795 to encourage construction of a new System, this time under a republican constitution rather than a monarchy. This reader, however, remains convinced that John Law s vision of the possibilities of capitalist Žnance...