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Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1973) 5 (1): 001–013.
Published: 01 March 1973
... of their specialization, inherit a com-
mon body of literature, most of which is readily available. It is, I feel,
incumbent upon every economist to familiarize himself with the ideas,
however ill conceived or ill expressed, of his intellectual precursors.
“There is nothing new under the sun, saith the preacher...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (2): 261–269.
Published: 01 June 1975
...Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 21
The specialization gap and the Ricardo Effect:
comment on Ferguson
Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr.
Professor Ferguson in a recent article...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (4): 747–772.
Published: 01 November 2010
... specialization and its accompanying psychological orientation toward acquisitiveness. The article begins with a methodological section that attempts to explain the origin of the common misreading of Plato's works and forwards an interpretive framework for situating arguments raised in the Platonic dialogues...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (2): 317–337.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Vernon L. Smith This report summarizes some of the findings of an experimental investigation motivated by the question, How might exchange, specialization, and property—rules governing actions—emerge jointly in human economic betterment? Sparse experimental instructions in a virtual village...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 March 1996
.... Adam Smith on the Cultural Effects of
Specialization: Splenetics versus
Economics
Edwin G. West
1. Introduction
In the mid- 1960s’ the learned journals witnessed a controversy over the
meaning of Adam Smith’s “second thoughts” on the virtues of capital-
ism’s division of labor (West...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 261–287.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of the disciplines. In the process, however, the CST also became a
place in which a particular kind of interdisciplinarity was honed, in a dis-
ciplined manner. In a world of specialized social sciences, the committee
became a place for interdisciplinary specialization in the normative evalu-
ation of human...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (3): 609–626.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., with the horizontal line
representing pm linen exports. The English and German offer curves are
OAR and OCS, with shapes determined by Mill’s assumption of unitary
price elasticities of demand in both countries.
Mill noted that full specialization in each country requires n to have
the lower and upper bounds...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1975) 7 (4): 499–529.
Published: 01 November 1975
...Nicholas C. Mullins Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Nicholas Mullins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University. [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 41
New causal theory:
an elite specialty in social...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (S1): 15–28.
Published: 01 December 1990
...Mason Barnett Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The Papers of Carl Menger in the Special Collections Department, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University Mason Barnett In 1985 the Duke University Manuscript Department, now the Special Collections Department, in conjunction...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (4): 551–592.
Published: 01 December 2016
... for the identity of many specialties since the 1990s, and (4) the low level of specialization of individual economists throughout the period in contrast to physicists as early as the late 1960s. References Abbott Andrew . 2001 . Chaos of Disciplines . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (1): 155–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., there are two coordinating mechanisms in Smith. First, there is the invisible hand of the Theory of Moral Sentiments , which facilitates the process of specialization and trade (or division of labor). It is a coordinating mechanism and not a tautology, as it is based on a presumption about human behavior yet...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (Suppl_1): 285–303.
Published: 01 December 2009
... reference to the overall growth of product demand in the economy that both induces and limits increased specialization. What is attributed to the factors—the value of their marginal products—is not a measure of their contribution . Integration does not give the social picture. Young's theory...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (1): 39–75.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of European postwar reconstruction and the creation of a new world economic order. Given his deep knowledge and prewar experiences, Italy and France were his first areas of specialization, although Hirschman soon contributed to the analysis of the Marshall Plan, the shaping of the European Payments Union...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 375–391.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Juan Carvajalino; Thomas Michael Mueller Abstract This essay introduces a special issue of History of Political Economy titled “Local Entanglements in the History of Mathematical Economics.” The articles in the special issue share a particular historiographical approach, characterized by the name...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (5): 799–830.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the present article is to show that evolutionary faith is not really enough to remove the tension between the economic and moral dimensions of Marshall's definition of well-being. Marshall understands that progress would not happen without assigning a special role to families and women in cultivating family...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... discrimination and the gender wage gap. Perhaps most influentially, Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek (1974) analyzed sex differentials in earnings using human capital theory's model of the family as a single economic unit that shares consumption and production decisions. In this model, women specialize...
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Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 234–260.
Published: 01 December 2010
...David C. Engerman In the 1940s and 1950s, as Soviet studies became a vibrant academic enterprise with significant links to the policy world, economic Sovietology occupied a special place. Those same years saw, also, the first major wave of decolonization and with it the rise of development...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (4): 636–668.
Published: 01 November 1978
...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert Division of labor, in research as well as in teaching, has produced, in economics as elsewhere, an indefinite number of specialities that are usually described as “applied fields.” … These fields may accumulate “private” stocks of facts and methods...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (4): 671–688.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to the functioning of a competitive economy. Special attention is drawn to an unpublished manuscript from 1926, which includes Warming's own English presentation of a new version of the model. The new model became the main ingredient in a new article on fishery from 1931 and was included in the sections on fishery...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2017
... that they were brought to bear on specific social issues, often with a policy orientation. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners and on papers published in a special volume of History of Political Economy , to which this is an introduction, we then discuss reasons for this transformation...
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