... l'Europa ,edited by S. Romagnoli and G. D. Pisapia, 356 -70. Cariplo-Laterza: Roma-Bari. Porta, P. L., and R. Scazzieri. 1997 . Towards an Economic Theory of International Civil Society: Trust, Trade, and Open Government. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 8.2 : 5 -28. Quadrio Curzio...

... Mercantilism as a rent-seeking society: economic regulation in historical per- spective. By Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and Robert D. Tollison. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1981.Pp. 169. $17.50. This is a study of economic history rather than of the history of economic...

...Charles E. Staley H.-J. Wagener and J. W. Drukker. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 236. $37.50. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 BOOK REVIEWS The economic law of motion of modern society: a Marx-Keynes-Schumpeter cen- tennial. Edited...

... on the archives of George Stigler; and Daniel Meyer and Julia Gardner from the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library. Aaron, H. J. 1978 . Politics and the Professors: The Great Society in Perspective . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. Abelson, R. 1967...

... of tools devised by economics and statistics, the central part of the essay focuses on Corrado Gini (1884–1965). He was Italy's leading econometrician and the main reference of the international network of econometricians until the 1940s. Other Italian members of the newly formed Econometric Society...

...; one as- sumes the difficulty arises from lack of material, since the first part is so expertly and meticulously written. This is altogether a most interesting and scholarly book. Tulane University ERSKINEMCKINLEY Work, Culture, and Society...

...Abraham Hirsch Harry G.∗ Johnson On Economics and Society . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. 356. $12.95. © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 ∗ This review was prepared prior to the untimely death of Harry G. Johnson on May 9, 1977. 344...

... 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...

... society like the United States, Keynes’s conjecture about satiation seems weird. None of the essayists mention that Keynes’s beliefs about material wealth, money, avarice, and greed were standard beliefs based to a considerable extent on what he learned from the philosopher G. E. Moore during...

... in society and how this vision differs greatly from neoclassical homo economicus . Correspondence may be addressed to Fabio Monsalve at Fabio.Monsalve@uclm.es . This essay benefited from the suggestions of two anonymous referees. I am also grateful to Serap Kayatekin for his useful comments provided...

... Impacts of Economics Journals: 1970-1990. Journal of Economic Literature 32.2 : 640 -66. Sikes, V. 2001 . Allied Social Science Associations Meetings, 1976-2001 . Personal communication to author. The History of Economics as a Subdiscipline: The Role of the History of Economics Society...

...Jeffrey T. Young Biancamaria Fontana. Rethinking the politics of commercial society: the “Edinburgh Review” 1802–1832 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 256. $34.50. © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 506 History of Political Economy 20:3 (1988) of England...

... . London: Macmillan. Moggridge , D. E. 1990 . Keynes as Editor. In A Century of Economics: 100 Years of the Royal Economic Society and the Economic Journal . Edited by John D. Hey and Donald Winch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Moggridge , D. E. 1992 . Maynard Keynes...

...Gerald Alonzo Smith BOOK REVIEWS Ecological economics: energy, environment and society. By Juan Martinez- Alier. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. 286 pp. This book attempts to write the history of energetic economics. Before going further, allow me to explain what energetic...

...Deborah A. Redman 708 Book Reviews A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xxv; 446 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $17.00. Inthis book Po ovey, a professor of English and director...

... Classical Liberal Economic Thought. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 39 . 1 : 21 -38. Evensky , Jerry . 1993a . Adam Smith on the Human Foundation of a Successful Liberal Society. HOPE 25 . 3 : 395 -412. Evensky , Jerry . 1993b . Ethics and the Invisible Hand. Journal of Economic...

... Press. Stigler, George, and Gary Becker. 1977 . De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. American Economic Review 67.2 : 76 -90. Book Reviews The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society. By Regenia Gagnier. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2000. 352 pp...

... and practical answers to the question, What is a just society? Confronted with the evils of the society of their time and the shortcomings of both liberal and protectionist economic thinking, they considered that it was essential to act by formulating a complete model of social justice. This model would present...

...John E. Elliott BOOK REVIEWS Karl Marx: On Society and Social Change. Edited by Neil J. Smelser. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. xli, 206. $3.25 paper. Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in Capitalist Society. By Bertell Ollman. Second edition. Cambridge...

... the Communist Manifesto, focuses on Marx’s ten-point program for making “de- spotic inroads on the rights of property” (p. 89), thereby hastening a re- volutionary transition to a classless society. Smelser is probably correct in emphasizing the essential similarities between these two visions...