..., institutional, psychological, and financial factors that help to explain why some research schools are successful and why others fail. The evidence suggests that this approach does indeed provide a coherent explanation as to why the revolution in macroeconomics during the 1930s and 1940s was Keynesian, this...

... allocation mechanisms. I use their study to trace and depict the emerging practice of applied experimental research as a multilayered endeavor which involves an interplay among theoretical, empirical, and practical considerations (akin to economic modeling) that allows the experimenter to move from the...

... Press. Keynes’s Lectures at the New School for Social Research Richard J. Kent In 1931 Keynes visited the United States for five weeks. The ostensive reason for the visit was to give three public lectures at the Harris Memo- rial Foundation symposium on unemployment at the University of...

... Alternative View. HOPE 27.3 : 517 -29. Ricardo, D. 1957 . Notes on Malthus's Principles of Political Economy. Vol. 2 of Works and Correspondence . Edited by Piero Sraffa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “New avenues for research in Malthus studies”: On Hashimoto and Pullenʼs “Two...

...A. W. Coats Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Research Priorities in the History of Economics A. W. Coats THEHISTORY of economic ideas occupies an uncomfortable position in the academic spectrum, in the interstices...

... economics.’ Economics and Philosophy 1 ( Oct. ): 342 -49. Kuhn , Thomas 1962 . The structure of scientific revolutions . Chicago. Lakatos , Imre 1970 . ‘Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes.’ In Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the...

...: Studies in the Methodology of Research Pro- grams. Edited by Neil de Marchi and Mark Blaug. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. 566 pp. $109.95 There is ample evidence in this volume of papers and commentary from the Con- ference on Alternative Research Programs in Recent Economics, held in...

... precise influence of the work of Arrow and others around him on engineering and R&D management, the issues they grappled with have remained relevant for more than half a century. Research and Development, Testing, and the Economics of Information, 1937 63 William Thomas In the United States during...

... . Lucas’s Research in the Late 1960s and the Natural Rate of Unemployment Danilo Freitas Ramalho da Silva This article describes the work of Robert E. Lucas Jr. in the late 1960s, which culminated in the modeling and testing of the natural rate of unem- ployment hypothesis. One of the most...

...Kenneth E. Carpenter; Fritz Redlich Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Research Possibilities in the History of Political Economy Through a Bibliography of Translations Kenneth E. Carpenter and Fritz Redlich WHENLatin...

...Robin E. Rider Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Ackoff , R. L. 1957 . A Comparison of Operational Research in the U.S.A. and in Great Britain. Operational Research Quarterly 8 : 88 -100. B. H. P. R. 1956 . Review of “Management Science, 1...

... the Social Sciences 9 : 304 -15. Blaug , M. 1976a . ‘Kuhn versus Lakatos or paradigms versus research programmes in the history of economics.’ In S. J. Latsis, ed., Method and appraisal in economics (Cambridge), p. 149 -80. Blaug , M. 1976b . ‘Human capital theory: a slightly...

...Robert Fredona; Sophus A. Reinert This paper sketches the intellectual history of the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, founded at Harvard in 1948, which helped established the contours of business history as a discipline. This history was shaped by the rivalry between N. S. B. Gras, the...

...Mark Blaug Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Mark Blaug is Head of the Research Unit in the Economics of Education at the University of London...

... Press Economists in government: a research field for the historian of economics A. W. Coats I During the past decade or so there has been a marked, and on the whole welcome, surge of interest in the sociology of economics on the part of economists and...

... , 1974 . Wagemann , Ernst . Economic Rhythm: A Theory of Business Cycles . New York, 1930 . History of Political Economy 13:4 o 1981 by Duke University Press Ragnar Frisch and business cycle research during the...

...Ivan Boldyrev In the postwar USSR, there were a few scattered research groups engaged in research most closely resembling “Western” mainstream economics. Inspired by the new sciences of the artificial, these groups were able to make important contributions to various fields of economic theory. This...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Harro Maas This article traces the attempts of W. Rupert Maclaurin to improve the research profile of economics at MIT through establishing a research project on the economics of innovation, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The project is important because it marks a...

... Giulio La Volpe. One of the main aspects of the research program carried out by the followers of Pareto was their attempt to dynamize the theory of general economic equilibrium. These economists believed that research on static economics was by then complete although they were well aware that some...

... that theory could be invented, practically at the same time, by two independent researchers, Solow and Swan. In our argument, the neoclassical theory represented a partially successful attempt to overcome the difficulties arising in the Harrodian interpretation of the classical macrodynamics program...