... on his research carried out at that time at the RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. We then examine the genealogy of the notion of “technological paradigm” developed in the 1980s and show its links with the contributions to the old economics of science, a criticism of the linear...

... 250 years ago. How appropriate to find in fiction the com- plete fictitiousness and immateriality of finance capital. William Darity Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates. By Gregory R. Woirol...

... short to deal with his topic- the conception of technology and the production process-or to relate it to the editors’ vision. The Quadrio-Curzio paper is more related, but is primarily a con- tribution to the Sraffa production paradigm. For the many American readers with no background in Sraffa...

... technologies, the Walrasian and the Marshallian. Therefore a merger between them is hard to envisage. The picture that then emerges is rather one of two rival macroeconomic paradigms, a Marshallian (i.e., imperfect competition) and a Walrasian (i.e., perfect competition), ex- isting side by side. 52...

... economist may freely adopt either approach in order to express and apply his beliefs (Paquk 1985). In addition to ideological factors, technological changes generally or within the disci- pline may significantly influence the paradigmatic choice. The develop- ment of new tools in a paradigm...

... and topics in addition to science: philosophy (including epistemology), history, historiography, politics, the- ology, literary studies, education, and the sociology of science (including science and technology studies), among others. SSR was published as the final volume of the In- ternational...

... of a value-free economics.” The author’s own view is closest to those of Hutchison and Blaug, though he offers little argument to support this conclusion. In his chapter 10 sum- mary, Drakopoulos does suggest that orthodox economics might be seen as a “he- donistic paradigm” in the Kuhnian sense...

...- anism: his analysis of dynamics had oscillations on the forefront, but a stable, though possibly moving, equilibrium lay at its core. 94 Lionello F. Punzo Therefore the simultaneous presence of growth and fl uctuations places Harrod’s effort within the paradigm and research program of macro...

... of a corrected version of the Austrian theory regarding planning and market? The writer’s answers to these questions follow. Whatever the marginal differences within the Austrian School, that school of thought represents a different paradigm (the author’s terminology) than the con- ventional neo...

... not imply that Humphrey never accepts the ‘orthodox non- monetarist’ view that real variables, such as technology or supply shocks, have at least short-run impacts on the economy. For the historical essays, Humphrey’s dominant theme is “to indicate the basic similarities in classic and current...

.... Technocratic Economics: An Afterword Mary S. Morgan Twentieth-century economics can be characterized by two contrasting modes of economic-engineering: one is the design mode of engineering focused on creating technologies that engineer change; the other is the tool-based engineering mode of problem-solving...

... both treat economics as a science, the philosophy of science is the appropriate area of philosophy by which to orient the examina- tion. (Hence, we hear nothing of moral or social philosophy, despite our origins.) Both authors focus on neoclassical economics as the paradigm to be studied...

... Marshall. But if we go back to the Principles and to Industry and Trade to learn about technological progress or economic growth, our interest need not be exclusively historical, for here Marshall may supply new ideas and suggestions even if not theories. The progress of demand theory has made...

... automation mandates euthanasia of a posi- tive working class. Scenario I contemplates a technology where 100 of corn input, sans any human labor or scarce land inputs, produces in one period 110 units of corn output. This harvest permits 10 units of “net” corn—10 because that is what is left over...

... IN 37306-0480. I. All citations to Imperialism here are to pagination in Lenin 1973. 2. In a sense the work of Lenin, Luxemburg, Hilferding, et al.. taken together, may constitute a new paradigm; why then give primacy to the Leninist variant of that paradigm? Not because Lenin was the most...

... for a particular individual at a particular time. This situationalism, this radical relativization of value provided the context in which the individual’s particular and unique wants became theoretically important. With the emergence of the neo-classical paradigm, the idea of need, and thus...

... scientific field tends at most times to be under the domination of a single master theory or paradigm. Scientists working under the intellectual. influence of this paradigm will ordinarily have the same basic framework of ideas, a common technical vocabulary, and the same set...

... Characterize the Class of Community Excess Demand Functions? Journal of Economic Theory 6 : 345 -54. Stadler, G. 1990 . Business Cycle Models with Endogenous Technology. American Economic Review 80.4 : 763 -78. Stock, J., and M. Watson. 1988a . Testing for Common Trends. Journal of the American...

... disseminated before its publication? To claim that “What was re- markable in Smith’s discussion, however, was his recurring emphasis of the view that this new paradigm in economic analysis-the market place-remained very much beyond the intellectual grasp of his contemporaries” (p. 159, emphasis...

... in areas of advanced technology, the real risks) took place in Britain than in any of her advanced com- petitors” (p. 145). Second, the large amount of British foreign investment (which was also cautious and risk adverse) both raised capital costs for domestic borrow- ers and maintained the demand...