...George S. Tavlas Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Some initial formulations of the monetary growth-rate rule George S. Tiivlns ltitroduction A growing number of monetary economists have in recent years ac- cepted the notion that the quantity of money should...

... . London : Eyre and Spottiswoode for W. R. Cooling, the King’s Printer of Acts of Parliament . Indian Economic Enquiry . 1925 . Report of the Indian Economic Enquiry (Visvesvaraya) Committee. Calcutta : Government of India . Kalpagam U . 2014 . Rule by Numbers: Governmentality...

... in the Late Twentieth Century . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Invented in America: Birth and Evolution of the Cyclically Adjusted Budget Rule, 1933–61 Orsola Costantini Allowing public budgets to uctuate in accordance with the economic cycle is today a common practice...

...Sandra J. Peart Margaret Schabas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 192 pp. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews 763 A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathe- matical...

...)? Charles R. McCann Jr. (45) concludes his analysis of the Treatise leaving both options open, although the latter, leaning towards greater discontinuity, seems more persuasive. All discussion of convention, in particular of the third behavioral rule—“do as the others do”—set out by Keynes in his famous...

... Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Schabas , Margaret 1993 . What's So Wrong with Physics Envy? HOPE 25 ( supplement ): 45 -53. Schuster , Arthur 1899 . The Periodogram of Magnetic...

... recommendations for individual agents, organizations, government, and teams. The predefined elements constitutive of these accounts, inspired by simple rules of logic, were now meant to represent the basic demands of rationality and theories of rational decision making specified rules of conduct that were meant...

...Vernon L. Smith This report summarizes some of the findings of an experimental investigation motivated by the question, How might exchange, specialization, and property—rules governing actions—emerge jointly in human economic betterment? Sparse experimental instructions in a virtual village...

... primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherited by the human race through evolution. Given primitive probabilities, no other devices than the rules of calculus of probabilities...

...Stefan Kolev; Ekkehard A. Köhler Abstract This article depicts the parallel evolution of the political economies of the “Old Chicago” and Freiburg schools. Both communities within the “laissez-faire within rules” research program and the long-standing “thinking in orders” tradition emerged during...

... on the BIS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision engaged in implementation rationality through simulation in the form of the Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP). The examination of iterative modeling and solving for rules of action at the LSL and in the RCAP suggests that the explicit...

... of the price mechanism as an emergent property of the social system that is formed when people's (inter)actions are governed by a set of norms that includes both the formal rules of property and tort and contract law, and also informal norms of honesty and promise keeping. However, while several scholars have...

... of this peculiar phenomenon. When the recession of 1958 was accompanied by a steady increase in general prices, some experts took this as further supporting evidence for cost-push inflation. Against the background of this atypical inflation, the US Congress, then ruled by the opposition Democratic Party, initiated...

... requirements against demand deposits, and the embedding of monetary-policy rules in legislation. This paper assesses departmental memoranda, correspondence, and published material to document the development of core characteristics that left the Chicagoans well-placed to resist the Keynesian revolution...

... antithetical for the development of a concrete decision rule under the hypothesis of incomplete information. The article also discusses Modigliani’s and Emile Grunberg’s contribution to rational expectations, concentrating on the paper they wrote but never published, and Modigliani’s early reaction to John...

... more and more an end in itself, justifying any sacrifice on its behalf, even that of his own reputation, for example during the Nazi rule in Austria, 1938-45. This paper tells the story of this strange academic life and its repercussions for the evolution of Austrian economics. Correspondence may...

... sciences’ legitimization of fatherly rule to a political thought that had its legitimacy in the provision of freedom, security, and wealth to householders, who in their part were the main agents and movers of the economic state. Correspondence may be addressed to Ere Nokkala, University Researcher...

... explore this influence, its history, and the role it played in Hotelling’s work and ideas. We show that political beliefs deeply shaped Hotelling’s approach to economics and that the rules of the Landlord’s Game helped him think about economic mechanisms. Rescuing Henry George: Optimization, Welfare...

... rules governing open-outcry double auctions, converged endogenously, in three to four periods of repeat interaction, to an efficient outcome. These observations contradicted the widely believed thought and taught necessity for perfect information, large numbers, and price-taking behavior. However...