... 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 jaundiced survey.’ Journal of Economic Literature 14 : 827 -55. Blaug , M. 1980 . The methodology...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... . 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 interwar years Jens Christopher...

...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...

...J. Daniel Hammond Neil de Marchi and Mark Blaug. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. 566 pp. $109.95 Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 References Lakatos , I. 1970 . Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes. In Criticism and the Growth...

... 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...

... Press. Duke University Press 2006 Correspondence may be addressed to Samuel Hollander, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel 84105; e-mail: sholland@bgumail.bgu.ac.il . “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...

... 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 growth of knowledge...

...Robin E. Rider Operations Research and Game Theory: Early Connections Robin E. Rider Promises, Promises In the realms of science and technology, new instruments and methods have long shone with the promise of unspecified but splendid discover- ies, observations, and applications...

..., 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 despite the fact...

... the 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...

... 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...

... . 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...

...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...

...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...

...Andrej Svorenčík Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could...

...Marina Bianchi Tibor Scitovsky made fundamental contributions across many fields of economics, from international trade and growth to monopoly power and competition. But his main interest, and principal legacy, has been in exploring new areas in welfare economics by drawing on research...