... . London: Macmillan. Rutherford, Malcolm. 1994 . Institutions in Economics: The Old and the New Institutionalism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Samuels, Warren J. 1966 . The Classical Theory of Economic Policy . Cleveland: World. Setting the Table Steven G. Medema The analysis...

...! The result might somehow have been comparable to these manuscripts.) Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo MARTINBRONFENBRENNER Man’s social nature: a topic of the Scottish Enlightenment in its historical setting. By Norbert Waszek. European University Studies Series XX, Philosophy...

... the University of) Manchester. Keynes reported that a recently discovered set of student lecture notes confirmed his argument. He was subsequently accused of poor scholarship in that regard, because the contents of the one known set of student notes did not tally with his description. It is shown here, however...

...,” and especially who possessed it—lay at the heart of political-economic debate. This article looks specifically at one set of attitudes about commercial epistemology, what I call mercantile epistemology , which came to dominate economic thinking from 1714 to roughly 1750. Mercantile epistemology was based on two...

...Michael H. Turk The examination of economics from the standpoint of language and literature, part of the “linguistic turn” in economic methodology, may be extended and inverted by setting the literary elements of economics in historical perspective. In so doing, it will emerge that in the formative...

..., at the turn of the century, a building block of the DSGE modeling framework. Researchers reacting to innovative work produced new models that acted modified the context of research inducing a feedback system responsible for a connected set of innovations in the fields mentioned above. Along that process...

...Marcel Boumans Trygve Haavelmo's methodological manifesto “The Probability Approach in Econometrics” not only laid down the paradigm for the research pursued at the Cowles Commission, but also sets out a strategy for measurement outside the laboratory. His conceptualization of “passive observation...

.... It resulted from new modeling strategies, data sets, and technologies as well as the changing influence of public and private patrons. Correspondence may be addressed to Roger E. Backhouse, Dept. of Economics, University of Birmingham, e3gbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; e-mail: reb@bhouse.org...

... application of these methods as a “credibility revolution” in econometrics that has finally provided persuasive answers to a diverse set of questions. Particularly influential in the applied areas of labor, education, public, and health economics, the methods shape the knowledge produced by economists...

... to achieve its ethical goal, and second, to certain unintended ethical benefits of competitive constructive cooperation (a form of industrial organization oriented toward reciprocal mutual profit). In closing, the paper considers the significance of Marshall’s work for a recent set of debates reflecting...

... account of choice and contributes to solving the apparent contradiction between the subjectivist young Coase and the more mature objectivist scholar. It thereby sets out the diversity of the criticisms that Coase levels against standard theory and shows the evolution of his strategy. Ultimately...

... 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...

.... A second section discusses the basic features of Luther's economic “theory.” This gives rise to a brief discussion of the development of the money supply in Germany in the period and the most likely development in the velocity of the circulating coins. Both are important for setting the context...

... satisfactorily resolving it. This article addresses the question by linking Marx’s omission to a larger set of revisions made to arguments he developed in earlier drafts of Capital . It identifies two distinct theoretical accounts of the phenomenon of surplus value in these drafts, based respectively on Marx’s...

... and economic phenomenon, and that this analysis fits neatly within the boundaries set by his examination of morality in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the political economy of The Wealth of Nations and Lectures on Jurisprudence . Moreover, the article will argue that an examination of this aspect...

... eccentric. In this article I focus on a trio of French socialists—Louis Blanc, Constantin Pecqueur, and François Vidal—and defend another interpretation: I will attempt to demonstrate that in the 1840s, the primary aim of these socialistes fraternitaires was the provision of a set of coherent theoretical...

...Nikola Regent Although published for the first time only in 1849, La Decima scalata is the first treatise ever written on progressive taxation. Composed in the 1510s or 1520s, it is set in late fifteenth-century Florence, after the expulsion of Piero de’ Medici: in two discorsi , first in favore...

... and set important terms for a simultaneous criticism and valorization of Smithian economic ideas by the historical economists after 1848. Hildebrand, Schmoller, and others drew on understandings of sex and gender roles shaped by moral and legal philosophy, biology, and anthropology, as well within...

... open a line of inquiry on the growing body of behavioral “anomalies” and their robustness in a market setting proved naive. The divide between both camps was too big to bridge given the fundamentally different approaches to experimentation. The article traces how the work of Sidney Siegel...

...-part account of human choice, is a functional theory amounting, after some years of evolution, to a classification of types of deviation from “rational” reward maximization. Animal choice, on the other hand, can be explained causally as the outcome of competition between a set of possible responses...