... later years experienced more and more disappointment about the evolu- tion of econometrics and that the historical approach increasingly gained ascendancy in his scheme of things.” Washington University WERNERHOCHWALD Marx and Mill: Two Views of Social...

... University LEWISE. HILL The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority. By Thomas L. Haskell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 276. No price stated...

... DANAN. STEVENS Danske gkonomer: Festskrgt i anledning af Socialakonomisk Samfunds 75 drs jubileum. (Danish Economists: Festschrift on the Occasion of the 75th Year Jubilee of the Social Economics Society.) Edited by J. P. Christen- sen and N. Kaergsrd. Copenhagen...

... (1809–82),” Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences , vol. 5 (New York, 1931 ). Hofstadter , Richard , Social Darwinism in American Thought (Boston, 1944 ). Goldman , Eric , Rendezvous with Destiny (New York, 1952 ), p. 90 -94. Tax , Sol , and Larry S. Krucoff, “Social...

... in the contents of chapter 1, where Menger dealt with social needs and social goods. I consider this specific contribution of Menger a natural development of his methodological research on the nature of institutions. Finally, I contextualize the story of the missed reprint and translation in the debate about...

...Marina Bianchi; Eleonora Sanfilippo This article analyzes an early and relatively little known debate on the role of social interdependencies in consumption and their implications for economic theory. The debate began in the pages of the Economic Journal when, in 1892, Alfred Marshall's student...

...Ross B. Emmett The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized...

...Sebastian Berger This article deals with the theory of social costs by K. William Kapp, as outlined in his book The Social Costs of Private Enterprise (1950). This work is a continuation of the socialist calculation debate, in which Kapp defended the possibility of rational planning...

...David Colander From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory . By Milonakis Dimitris Fine Ben . London : Routledge , 2009 . xiii ; 368 pp. $240.00 (hardback); $59.95 (paperback) . From Economics Imperialism...

... successfully interwoven a story about economic mea- surement with a story about developments in social and political relations (in this case, labor relations). The subtlety with which Stapleford has treated both aspects of his story widens the audience that will appreciate this book, while making...

... that their approaches differ dramatically. Following the example of Transatlantic Crossings (Rodgers 1998), which links many New Deal reforms to a transatlantic network of students of social policy, Masters of the Universe documents the formation of an extensive transatlantic network, argu- ing...

...Arthur Schweitzer Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 31 Frank Knight’s social economics Arthur Schweitzer One year after his retirement from the University of Chicago, Frank Knight came to Indiana...

...Robert C. Bannister Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Charles M. Bonjean, Louis Schneider, and Robert L. Lineberry. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas Press, 1976. Pp. 221. Cloth $10, paper $3.95. BOOK REVIEWS Social Science in America: The First Two Hundred...

...Leonard P. Liggio Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Keith Michael Baker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. 538. $22.00. Book Reviews 589 Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics...

... but clear and concise synthetic interpretation or account of Pareto’s economics has yet, unfortu- nately, to be published. Michigun State University WARRENJ. SAMUELS John Locke, Economist and Social Scientist. By Karen 1. Vaughn. Chicago: University of Chicago...

.... 4. William Darity, Jr., “Introduction: the odyssey of Abram Harris from Howard to Chicago,” in Hams, Race, radicalism, and reform, 3. Darity and Ellison * Race and social reform 613 Harris’s at Howard, remembers meeting Harris in Chicago a couple of years after the latter had...

...Royall Brandis Book Reviews Interfaces in Economic and Social Analysis. Edited by Ulf Himmelstrand. New York: Routledge, 1992. 3 I8 pp. $62.50. The publication of this book represents the culmination of a ten-year interdisciplinary project in the social sciences exploring exogenous...

...D. P. O'Brien Book Reviews 381 The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. By Evelyn L. Forget. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xii; 311 pp. £60.00. This volume is made up of two parts: a lengthy essay on the history of ideas...

... in British academic life during (but not of course exclu- sively) Hayek’s time in Britain. Caldwell is also able to counter some of the standard left criticisms of Hayek that seem to require him to prove the unprovable—a social optimum—rather than merely to argue in terms of comparison between alternative...

..., Chadwick at times was in full control. Chadwick’s stormy bureaucratic career, as well as his direct involvement in a phenomenal range of social causes, is ably chronicled by S. E. Finer in The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (London, 1952). Also see R. A. Lewis, Edwin Chadwick...