... 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...

... 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...

... . The Demand and Supply of Public Goods . Indianapolis : Liberty Fund . Buchanan James M. Musgrave Richard A. . 1999 . Public Finance and Public Choice: Two Contrasting Visions of the State . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press . Coase Ronald H. 1960 . “The Problem of Social Cost...

..., the historical economists urged a revived attention to the common good through social policy sponsored by the state and reform activities taken up in gender-appropriate ways by civil-societal actors. Correspondence may be addressed to Marynel Ryan Van Zee, Social Science Division, University of Minnesota...

... . Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future . Coase Ronald . 1960 . “The Problem of Social Cost.” Journal of Law and Economics 3 : 1 – 44 . Coate Stephen . 2013 . “Evaluating Durable Public Good Provision Using Housing Prices.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper...

... the absolute quantity of goods possessed that mat- ters but also the quantity relative to that possessed by proximate or distant others in the social hierarchy. A consequence of these interactions is that the individual’s utility func- tion can no longer be written in the traditional way, but must...

... (Teilhac 1927: 198). In his mind, social wealth comprised valuable goods regardless of what resources were employed to produce them (goods with no value formed natural wealth). The entrepreneur detected the utility of these goods and brought together the resources to get a product in the hands...

... was challenged to discover a new basis for distinguishing good from evil, and for regulating institu- tions and social practices within itself. This was by far the most popular book by Lippmann to date and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Lippmann’s serious works during the 1920s certainly helped...

..., as well as to access more varied goods. Accordingly, it was claimed, machines provide for the “social and intellectual development of workers” (Molinari 1880 : 97) and “tend to bring about a kind of uniformity of life between men” (Leroy-Beaulieu 1896b , 1:388). The two lectures given in 1866...

...Alain Alcouffe; David le Bris The social scientist Jean Fourastié introduced his model of economic development in a book published in 1949. He based his analysis on a statistical series he had collected, which established two principles: technical progress is not uniformly distributed across...

...” the concept of the third primary social good -freedom-in Chapter IV, Gordon stoutly insists that determinism must be re- Book Reviews 143 jected. Human organisms, he holds, “possess . . . power to produce phenom- ena which act as causal forces...

... Social Goods. In Rationality, Individualism and Public Policy , edited by Geoffrey Brennan and Cliff Walsh. Canberra: ANUTECH. Wokler , Robert . 1974 . Rameau, Rousseau and the Essai sur origine des langues. Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century 117 : 179 -238. Wokler , Robert...

... to deal with Mill’s social philosophy as a coherent system but neglects the traditional debate over whether Mill was a consistent utilitarian of any type. Instead, Kurer takes Mill’s principles of justice as ultimate data, derives from them a definition of the social good, and defines progress...

.... Section I deals with Hume and section I1 with Smith. In each I explore reasons for their assertion of the aggregate output of material goods as a criterion for judging economic arrangements.4 In addition I explore their reasons for distinguishing social from private welfare. Section I11...

...Roger S. Hewett Sue Headlee. New York: Praeger, 1991. 212 pp. $51.55. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 550 History of Political Economy 25:3 (1993) towards the social good, which meant, of course, the improvement of humanity in terms of our moral and intellectual...

... Journal of Economics 53 ( 2 ): 213 – 37 . ———. 1941 . “The Planning Approach in Public Economy: A Reply.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 55 ( 2 ): 319 – 24 . ———. 1959 . The Theory of Public Finance . New York : McGraw Hill Book . ———. 1969 . “Provision for Social Goods...

... and decision- making costs with the result that perfect optimization would be impossi- Institutionalism and the Social Control of Business 81 ble. Clark’s (1918, 25) “good hedonist” would “stop calculating when it seemed likely to involve more trouble than it was worth, and, as he could...

... Vienna Knut Wicksell References Becchio Giandomenica . 2014 . “ Social Needs, Social Goods, and Human Associations in the Second Edition of Carl Menger’s Principles .” History of Political Economy 46 ( 2 ): 247 – 64 . Beham Bernard . 2012 . Die Genese des Mengerschen...

..., and the Question of Public Debt  409 Giandomenica Becchio Social Needs, Social Goods, and Human Associations in the Second Edition of Carl Menger’s Principles 247 Victor Bianchini...

...-interest in economic activity accomplished the common social good. Josiah Tucker, Pierre de Boisguilbert, and Ferdinando Galiani each presented a legitimation of self-interest that anticipated Adam Smith's conception of the invisible hand. They offered the market as a salutary example of “spontaneous...