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Institutionalism and the Social Control of Business

Malcolm Rutherford
History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 77–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3130451
Published: 01 December 2015
... methods for the social control of business it is clear that, in their view, market activity frequently fails to serve the social interest, and that such failures are widespread, in fact endemic to the system of business. This article discusses this literature with particular attention to the work...
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Sir Edwin Chadwick on Competition and the Social Control of Industry: Railroads

Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Edward O. Price, III
History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (2): 213–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11-2-213
Published: 01 June 1979
..., 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...
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The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947: Science and Social Control

Geoffrey M. Hodgson
History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (4): 703–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1811442
Published: 01 November 2012
...Geoffrey M. Hodgson The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947: Science and Social Control . By Rutherford Malcolm . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 410 pp. Cloth $95.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Asso...
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Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform

Malcolm Rutherford
History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 560–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2334839
Published: 01 September 2013
...Malcolm Rutherford Order and Control in American Socio-economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform . By McCann Charles R. Jr. . London : Routledge , 2012 . xx; 291 pp. Hardback $130.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References...
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Progressive Era Origins of the Regulatory State and the Economist as Expert

Thomas C. Leonard
History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 49–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3130439
Published: 01 December 2015
... of a powerful regulatory state, guided by expert economic advisers, whose scientific training and credentials were supplied by the nascent research universities. Progressive economists called this new model of economic governance social control . Social control was less a coherent agenda of substantive goals...
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Better Living through Political Engineering

Charles R. McCann, Jr., Vibha Kapuria-Foreman
History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (5): 909–935.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11330077
Published: 01 October 2024
...Charles R. McCann, Jr.; Vibha Kapuria-Foreman Abstract Much has been written about the philosophy of social control, particularly as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Yet little if any appreciation has been given to the work of James MacKaye and Helen Sumner...
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American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era: Its Foundational Beliefs and Their Relation to Eugenics

Thomas C. Leonard
History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 109–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-040
Published: 01 March 2009
... the social good and rejecting the individualism of (classical) liberalism; that the progressives venerated social efficiency; that the progressives believed in the epistemic and moral authority of science, a belief that comprised their view that biology could explain and control human inheritance...
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K. William Kapp's Social Theory of Social Costs

Sebastian Berger
History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 227–252.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3130523
Published: 01 December 2015
..., that is, the need to prevent social costs ex ante . This defense of planning to prevent social costs was developed into a foundation for social economics, consisting of a framework for social and democratic controls of the economy. The framework effectively ties market, state, and civil society actors...
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The Road to Serfdom and the Definitions of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930–1950

Gabriel F. Benzecry, Nicholas Jensen, Daniel J. Smith
History of Political Economy 11773500.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11773500
Published: 12 February 2025
... Hayek was engaging in The Road to Serfdom , (2) reviews of and responses to Hayek's book, and (3) prominent politicians and other public intellectuals in London. We find that socialism was commonly understood to mean economic planning under state ownership or control of the means of production. Those...
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Controlling for What? Movements, Measures, and Meanings in the US Gender Wage Gap Debate

Daniel Hirschman
History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10085710
Published: 01 December 2022
... stylized facts travel into political debates, and how the choices made in characterizing an aspect of economic life (such as controlling for full-time work, but little else) interact with social movement activism, and folk understandings of economic life. The gender wage gap was first calculated...
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Realities of Formalization: How Soviet Scholars Moved from Control Engineering to the General Theory of Choice

Ivan Boldyrev
History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 270–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-8718052
Published: 01 December 2020
... by encouraging research collaboration, sharing ideas, and freely moving across various disciplines. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 cybernetics social choice rationality control theory Soviet mathematical economics I am deeply grateful to Fuad Aleskerov, Salvador Barberà, Olessia...
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Observations in a Hostile Environment: Morgenstern on the Accuracy of Economic Observations

Marcel Boumans
History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 114–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1631806
Published: 01 December 2012
...Marcel Boumans This article provides a history of the treatment of observational errors where conditions cannot be controlled to reduce inaccuracies, more specific, a history of the discussion of errors in social statistics. The main focus is on Oskar Morgenstern’s atypical position...
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From Economic to Social Regulation: How the Deregulatory Moment Strengthened Economists’ Policy Position

Elizabeth Popp Berman
History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 187–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-4166323
Published: 01 December 2017
... regulation—eliminating price and entry controls across a range of industries—but its ability to act was limited. After 1975 the I/O group increasingly focused on social regulation—rules meant to improve health, environmental, or safety conditions—and pushed for cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis...
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The Writing Workshop of François Quesnay and the Making of Physiocracy

Christine Théré, Loïc Charles
History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (1): 1–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-045
Published: 01 March 2008
... attempted to make contacts with other individuals interested in this new science, and he quickly began collaborating with several of them. Why did he make such a move? First of all, owing to his service to Madame de Pompadour, Ques- nay had no control over his schedule. His professional and social...
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Letts Calculate: Moral Accounting in the Victorian Period

Harro Maas
History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (suppl_1): 16–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3619226
Published: 01 December 2016
... the Victorian’s use of accounting tools in the social and private sphere. Household accounts were widely used to regu- late and control family expenses. Almanacs and merchant accounting tools transformed into daily planners that served to improve the self along several dimensions, financial, social...
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Economic Thought and Social Change

WILLIAM M. DUGGER
History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (4): 625–627.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-12-4-625
Published: 01 November 1980
... social control. What is required is democratic comprehensive planning. Unfortunately for both economics and social life, “planning is systemfremd, utterly alien, to the . . . fundamental vision of the orthodox paraidgm” (p, 79). This makes orthodox economics unfit as a guide to social policy...
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Richard Cantillon: Essay de la Nature du Commerce en General

ROBERT F. HÉBERT
History of Political Economy (1980) 12 (4): 627–629.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-12-4-627
Published: 01 November 1980
...- tum to which control may or may not be applied, but rather a social result; the relevant question is to understand, interpret, and evaluate the process of con- trol by which the individual is in continuous formation” (p. 115). What Stanfield means by this is simple. A human being is a social...
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“More Merciful and Not Less Effective”: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era

Thomas C. Leonard
History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (4): 687–712.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-4-687
Published: 01 November 2003
...: Cambridge University Press. Ross, Edward Alsworth. 1901a . The Causes of Race Superiority. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 18.1 : 67 -89. ____. 1901b . Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order . New York: Macmillan. ____. 1907 . Social Darwinism...
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The Role of Government in the History of Political Economy: The 2004 HOPE Conference Interpreted and Critiqued by the General Discussant

Warren J. Samuels
History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (Suppl_1): 393–423.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-Suppl_1-393
Published: 01 December 2005
... domains—for example, the free- dom of the “free market” visvis social control through moral and legal rules. The fact of these multiple paradigms explains how it is possible not only to give a coherent account of Smith’s theory taken as a whole but several such accounts, each grounded on some...
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The History of Economic Thought as Intellectual History

Warren J. Samuels
History of Political Economy (1974) 6 (3): 305–323.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-6-3-305
Published: 01 September 1974
..., amply manifest in the history of economic thought but not widely studied, arises from the performance by economics of not one but three simultaneous critical roles. Economics is knowledge, it is social control, and it is psychic balm. Most of the history of economic thought and most of its...
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