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...D. Wade Hands Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)—they all share common features...

... Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance: An Explanatory Essay . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Wilson, R. [1997] 2003 . Economics, Ethics, and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Economic Thought . New York: Palgrave. Revealing the Connection between the Gospel and History: The Defi nition...

... of Demand Theory . Oxford: Clarendon. Hicks , John , and R. G. D. Allen. 1934 . A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value. Economica 1 ( February ): 52 -76 and 1 (May): 196–219. Houthakker , Hendrik . 1950 . Revealed Preference and the Utility Function. Economica 17 ( May ): 159 -74...

... curve? How did their choices shape the ways that they obtained, interpreted, and theorized the empirical evidence? How did the concerns and problems they encountered feed back into the development of econometrics? This study reveals that much of the interaction between econometrics and economics...

... of “war” on, poverty; and the 2010s, when the “1 percent” became a potent symbol of the increasingly extreme concentration of wealth. Despite pronounced differences, both moments reveal how even the most dramatic of measurements could be, and were, used as much to minimize as to reveal the broader...

... of economists. It then uses “control as a viewpoint” from which to study the history of the two disciplines. It reveals why behaviorism did not meet consumer demand theory during the “ordinalist / revealed preferences revolution” of the 1930s (i.e., the behaviorist myth), despite common methodological...

.... Unfortunately, by passive observations only it is difficult to obtain knowledge about potential influences, particularly when they have not revealed their strengths (yet). Correspondence may be addressed to Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam, Department of Economics, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB Amsterdam...

... by anthropologists had qualifications and caveats. New documentary information about Malinowski's approach reinforces his commitment to the study of economic life as an ethnographic pursuit rather than a comparative one. It further reveals his late-career openness to the use of classical/neoclassical economic...

...Harro Maas; Mary S. Morgan Two themes are generative for revealing and understanding the history of observation in economics. First, we argue for the importance of noting that observation is an activity as well as a result, and second that observation is no more identical with quantification than...

..., as new approaches led the BLS to adopt previously rejected techniques and to abandon other strategies that were formerly of central importance. In charting this history, the essay reveals the many challenges and complexity of gathering a seemingly straightforward form of economic data. Copyright 2012...

... Advisers to the MIT network. It also reveals the MIT economics department as a community of self-replicating economists who are largely trained by a few key advisers who were mostly trained at MIT as well. MIT has a disproportionate share of graduates who remain in American academe, which may...

... in 1843 (when the first constitution was introduced), in 1863 (when a new king was appointed as head of the country) and in 1876-9 (when foreign lending was resumed after a long financial embargo against Greece). These interventions reveal a liberal economist who was a precursor in what is today known...

...Marion Fourcade; Rakesh Khurana This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital...

...Antonella Rancan This article reconstructs Franco Modigliani’s and Herbert Simon’s close collaboration over the 1950s on implementation of a decision theory under uncertainty that partly contributed to the genesis of behavioral economics and rational expectations theory. Their collaboration reveals...

... for applying economic theory to reveal insights into concrete economic events that have taken place over time. Correspondence may be addressed to Michael McLure, University of Western Australia, Economics M251, 35 Stirling Highway, WA 6009, Australia; e-mail: [email protected] . I would like...

...Sofia Valeonti Abstract This article seeks to reveal the links between Henry C. Carey's monetary theory in the greenback debate and the sectionalist issue within the US Reconstruction period. Sectionalism refers to the economic, political, and cultural differences between the North and South...

... as formulated by Max Weber. This article maintains that a closer reading of Eucken and Weber reveals the similarity of their positions. Thus, Eucken should be seen as a proponent of the principle of value freedom. At the same time, his treatment of the subject suggests that his (implicit) model of policymaking...

... when interpreting The Wealth of Nations as his direct communication to the reader of his views on the relationship between text and context. We may know more than he chose to reveal about his social and cultural embeddedness within the Glaswegian merchant community, but at most this knowledge can only...

... Carver. Our reconstruction reveals that, contrary to several standard historical accounts, for American early twentieth-century marginalism, let alone American economics at large, Clark's solution to the ethical problem of distributive justice was far more divisive than consolidating. Luca.fiorito...

...Ibanca Anand Abstract This article explores the peculiar approach to narrative argumentation taken by the MIT economist Evsey Domar (1914–97). Combining biography and textual analysis of his academic work reveals that Cold War themes permeated Domar's later research in comparative economic systems...