...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...

... Interdependencies in Consumption: Eleonora Sanfilippo An Early Economic Debate on Social Distinc- tion, Emulation, and Fashion  547 Kenneth Button A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right was Alfred Kahn...

... generations’ poor. Thus economic growth has been politically over- SOW 3. The Positional Sector Hirsch is certainly not the first to recognize the social interdependencies in the relative nature of the consumption of material goods, and he makes no pretense that this portion...

.... The realization to which I refer here is the recognition of the unintended consequences of the pursuit of social recognition, namely, that through specialization one not only promotes one’s social standing but also better provides for himself. Witztum / Interdependence and Equilibrium in Smith...

... . Mimeograph (April). NBER. ____. 1968 . Interdependent Preferences: Charity, Externalities, and Income Taxation . Mimeograph (March). University of Chicago. ____. 1969 . A Theory of Social Interactions . Mimeograph (September). University of Chicago. ____. 1974 . A Theory of Social Interactions...

... with the assumption that perfect markets exist, or should we, as social scientists and econo- mists, be asking which equilibrium institution-price pair will emerge as the stable pair, or set of pairs, in this situation of strategic and social interdependence. If it turns out that the only stable institution...

... in terms of a process of interdependent belief adjustment, so also individuals’ shared social substance on this later view, their rules, practices, and con- ventions, similarly needed to be understood as the product of a historical, social process. More simply, a society’s rules and conventions...

... of social classes,” as distinct from the later (and up to a point earlier) analysis “in terms of categories of economic types” (p. 552). After a period of Ricardian darkness, light was eventually restored as a result of the promulgation of the Jevons-Menger utility theory, which must be seen...

... 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...

... of Political Economy 60 ( 3 ): 208 – 17 . ———. 1952b . “ The Pricing of Highway Services .” National Tax Journal 5 : 97 – 106 . ———. 1954a . “ Consumption Interdependence and the Interpretation of Social Cost .” Mimeo, Buchanan Archives, Buchanan House, George Mason University . ———. 1954b...

... be ignored, and it is here that Pareto departs from current orientations in economics: because of the interdependence of economic and other social phenomena, economic change and welfare considerations involving such change should not be separated from their social implications. Hence welfare...

... of the interdependent optimizing decisions of eco­ nomic agents, assuming as given endowments, preferences, and the technology. Price theory stresses simultaneous determination and inter­ dependence, and makes no unequivocal claims about how changes in underlying parameters will affect...

... Hume, Malthus, and the stability of equilibrium A. M. C. Waterman I. The Equivalence of Humean and Malthusian Models Equilibrium models of social explanation have been used since the earliest days of classical political economy. In this article I shall be concerned with two...

... are interdependent. Both de- pend on the specific set of social processes which Marx conceives as se- curing the conditions of existence for capitalist class relations. Each successive level of his argument allows the incorporation of a more com- plex conception of the economic processes which...

... real-world phenomena that required addressing via “Pigovian” policy instruments. It was only in the late 1950s and 1960s, with the growing social and political concern about large-scale pollution, that externality analysis came to capture the attention of economists, but even this early work...

... on any oddly devised social contract (it would have been very hard to fit the judgment in the contractarian framework), but on the kind of reach that the impar­ tial spectator allows, without confining judgments of justice within the limits of a sovereign state. In today’s interdependent world...

... . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Leonard , Robert 1991 . War as a Simple Economic Problem. In Economics and National Security . Edited by C. Goodwin. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Leonard , Robert 1995 . From Parlor Games to Social Science: Von Neumann, Morgenstern...

...William J. Barber Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 References Angell Norman . 1912 . The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage . 3d ed. New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons . Angell...

... renewed interest in cooperative production. Correspondence may be addressed to Miriam Bankovsky, Department of Politics and Philosophy, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University, Melbourne VIC 3086, Australia; e-mail: m.bankovsky@latrobe.edu.au . Copyright © 2018 Duke...

... career of, 37 See also Interdependence applied mathematics and work on Social psychology games, 38 application of game theory to, 191, “Definitions for a Theory of Games 198,217 and Pursuit” (1923, 38-39 Center for Group Dynamics...