... the Atlantic trade, mercantile interests, and institutional change favoring individual property rights outside of the monarch's inner circle suggests another broader interpretation of some prominent mercantilist writers as institutional reformers. Early English Mercantilists and the Support of Liberal...

... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Public Support of the Arts in the History of Economics: Introduction Craufurd D. Goodwin This special issue of HOPE grew out of a series of meetings, in 2001–2, of an informal reading group of students and faculty at Duke University concerned...

.... 2004 . John Maynard Keynes, the Bloomsbury Group, and the Arts Council Movement. International Journal of Cultural Policy 10.2 : 203 -17. Williams, Raymond. 1983 . Culture and Society: 1780–1950 . New York: Columbia University Press. William Morris and the Case for Public Support...

... by Duke University Press 2005 Kenneth Clark: His Case for Public Support of the Arts Craufurd D. Goodwin But we have drifted too far into the realm of economics. —Kenneth Clark, “The Artist in the Witness Box” (1940) Unto Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) much...

... at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979 , edited by Pitt Joseph C. , 137 – 48 . Boston : D. Reidel . Wiley Jay W. 1982 . “A Retrospective.” Krannert Update , Summer , 4 – 5 . Mechanism Designers in Alliance: A Portrayal of a Scholarly Network in Support...

....” The Bullionists were critical of the Bank of England and supported a return to convertibility, whereas the anti-Bullionists defended both the Bank and inconvertibility. This paper re-evaluates Henry Thornton's seminal contribution to monetary theory and argues that Thornton's pathbreaking Paper Credit (1802...

.... Comparisons between the two authors show that they are closer than we might expect. Gilfillan rejected the hero and genius accounts of inventors and supported instead an anonymous view of the invention process. Nevertheless, as shown by previous literature, Gilfillan could not fully get rid of a genius...

... of the classical economists, and of formalism in the presentation and development of the theoretical approach of those economists. If the main themes of criticism remain broadly the same, there is, however, a very important difference in that the reasonably compact analytical argument that supported the 1999...

... through direct political support. A prerequisite for this mercantilist perspective was monetary stabilization, since a weak and instable currency was the main obstacle to commercial integration. In the Neapolitan political debate on monetary reform, Trojano Spinelli’s essay Riflessioni politiche sopra...

... that supported them and the ways in which Galbraith and Friedman approached the visual representation of economic ideas. Friedman’s series drew on support from advocacy organizations and corporate interests, relayed accessible expositions via an empirical documentary style, and framed its episodes around...

...Gregory R. Woirol Despite lack of support from professional economists, the idea of a tax on labor-saving machinery as a policy to help displaced workers had widespread popular appeal in the US throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s. A response to concerns about technological unemployment...

... Western powers should support his proposal that anticipated—and may even have influenced to some extent—US rationales for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development twenty years later. Sun’s innovative ideas about international development emerged from a combination of three features of his...

...Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak; Ramón García Fernández Economics as a scholarly discipline was transformed in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s, when many countries in the region received financial and academic support from US institutions ostensibly aimed at “modernizing” the standards...

... as the contingent valuation method. Initially, this method asked respondents directly about their willingness to pay for a realistically described recreational amenity. When contingent valuation became used for valuation studies of environmental and health issues in a regulatory and legal framework, initial support...

.... By appealing to government administrators in both the United States and developing countries, Schultz helped shift development policies toward state-supported technical assistance, public education, and market-oriented policies for the agricultural sectors in the global South. pburnett@berkeley.edu...

... effects, a position that Say also supported. Taylor rightly credited Say with the earliest and clearest formulation of the law of outlets ( loi des débouchés ), and in doing so he correctly interpreted the essence of Say's thinking. Say ([1819] 2006: 260) acknowledged that in a stagnating or declining...

... agricultural conditions; on the other, adaptation consisted of a form of institutional engineering, to harness political will, popular support, and bureaucratic structures for land reform. He developed, therefore, an array of methodological suggestions to collect relevant information during short visits...

.... In the negotiations that opposed them to the supporters of the bill, as well as in the analysis of the bill they produced, they insisted on the existence of a trade-off between inflation and unemployment and referred frequently to the famous Phillips curve. They endeavored to anchor their expertise on academic...

..., not addressed to his ideal formula per se, but rather aimed at the very idea that a universal formula for index numbers could be singled out. The most prominent individuals involved in this debate were Wesley Mitchell, Warren Persons, Correa Walsh (Fisher's only supporter), and Allyn Young. Among them...

... in this elaborate system is to uphold the promise of the invisible hand of the Theory of Moral Sentiments and guarantee life's necessities, as well as support the new social drive that, through the deception of nature, is manifested in the accumulation of wealth. I will argue that according to Smith...