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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 1–9.
Published: 01 December 2020
...; and third, to explore some of what I see as the main similarities and differences between engineering and economics. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 engineering economics uncertainty systems thinking References
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Hennessy
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. 2009 . “ The Global...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 177–206.
Published: 01 June 2017
... hold on British economic thinking until roughly 1750, when its keys pillars began to be challenged from various directions. Focusing on epistemology offers a powerful way to rethink the history of what Adam Smith dubbed the “Mercantile System.” References Ahn Doohwan . 2010 . “The Anglo...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 689–718.
Published: 01 August 2022
... example in his work is how he thinks about the interrelationship between the national economy and the international economic order. In his econometric work before the war, the economy was analyzed as an equilibrium system, but after the war he developed a clear sense that the economy consists...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (4): 613–622.
Published: 01 November 2013
... that for the wartime US economy to achieve maximum performance, Congress should maintain a price system in lieu of bureaucratic rationing. Although “Design for a Streamlined War Economy,” as well as Lerner’s well-known 1944 book The Economics of Control , addresses the macroeconomy, only the 1942 paper explicitly...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (3): 545–574.
Published: 01 September 2009
... circum-
stances. The one consistent Thornton was the innovative monetary theo-
rist whose analysis favored a nonmetallic, managed, monetary system.9 To
fully appreciate the power of Thornton’s thinking, one has to recall that
two hundred years ago, what twenty-fi rst-century economists think...
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History of Political Economy (2009) 41 (1): 163–181.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a statistical rein-
terpretation of fi tness, had made Darwinism dependent on population
genetics models, defi ning the dynamics of evolution in reference to a
closed system and to a fi nal equilibrium to be reached. This should warn
us from thinking of the reference to the “biological” or even “Darwinist...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (5): 925–946.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., hoarding could take place over the very long run as demonstrated in this essay. true thinking. Thus, Harry Landreth and David Colander (2001: 148) incorrectly assert that Say denied the possibility of hoarding. . . . Money was only a medium of exchange in [his] system. In reality, not only did Say...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 497–521.
Published: 01 June 2023
... under capitalism” (41). Thus, the attractiveness of an economic system differed in degrees based on the point of view (a reader's or a citizen's) from which it was judged. An inability to weave imaginative and historical modes of thinking (modes that Domar often incorporated into his own works...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 March 2016
... article suggests, the influence
of systems theory, and Bertalanffy in particular, can be seen much earlier in Hayek’s thinking,
in particular in the late 1940s and 1950s and not just “late” in Hayek’s career, as Mirowski
asserts, suggesting that there is more continuity in Hayek’s postwar thought...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 147–148.
Published: 01 March 1985
... (Babbitt, for example) and, in an
earlier day, poem can alter the way the participants in an economic system think
about that system. And with the social universe, a changed conception can change
the way participants act in and towards that system. So, the phenomena we econ-
omists study change...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 March 1985
... (Babbitt, for example) and, in an
earlier day, poem can alter the way the participants in an economic system think
about that system. And with the social universe, a changed conception can change
the way participants act in and towards that system. So, the phenomena we econ-
omists study change...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 204–227.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of systems analysis and systems thinking in East and West, see Cocks 1980; Susiluoto 1982; Harrison 1985; Elichirigoity 1999; Hughes and Hughes 2000; Mindell 2004; Heyck 2015; Crook 2016; Rindzevi i t 2016a, 2018; Siskin 2016; Allan 2018. 4. See the administrative nomenclature of the State Committee...
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History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 March 2004
... school”
demonstrated a major concern with the structural and statistical descrip-
tion of historical development, and with systems thinking in its broadest
sense.
For example, the Russian philosopher and economist A. A. Bogdanov
had provided a key contribution to the development of modern systems...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (3): 373–421.
Published: 01 September 2016
... . Jardini David R. 2000 . “Out of the Blue Yonder: The Transfer of Systems Thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961–1965.” In Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After , edited by Hughes A. C. Hughes T. P...
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History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (4): 685–689.
Published: 01 November 1997
... an improper motive. However, I do not think this tells
the whole story. The nature of justice is that, like grammar, its rules are
capable of exact specification, which is then the basis of a system of
positive law. However, Smith notes that “every system of positive law
may be regarded as a more...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (5): 921–934.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of a complete moral system that will guide all action in all circumstances—nothing could achieve that—but the knowledge generated in trying to think about how best to live may act to move toward moral improvement. It might, then, create the sort of person who is more likely to be able to make the right...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 143–167.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of stationary ensembles has considerably in¦uenced the writer s thinking in this eld. example of such a system, Shannon mentions telegraphy, where the mes- sage is a sequence of letters and the signal a sequence of dots, dashes, and spaces. A continuous system is one in which the message and signal are both...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1974) 6 (3): 305–323.
Published: 01 September 1974
...; on the other hand,
it is the combination of a critical posture toward all thought and mean-
ing with the ability to think in terms of different intellectual systems and
the mastery of a degree of intellectual and emotional distance with
regard to one’s own mode or system of thought. In one respect...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (2): 297–299.
Published: 01 June 1983
.... I 15, that Roncaglia’s claim that Sraffa’s system is compatible with
Marx is a “chimerical” claim.)
Turning now to an assessment of Marchionatti’s argument, I do not think that
his posing of objections to the Sraffa system in terms of the ‘incoherence’ of its
research program...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1983) 15 (1): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 1983
... Sproul, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, will be
studied and his thinking on the major issues of monetary policy examined.
Such a study seems justified in that Sproul was a major figure in the con-
frontation and accord with the Treasury.
Allan Sproul’s career with the Federal...
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