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...: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen GmbH. Moss , Laurence S. 1995 . Platonic Deception as a Theme in the History of Economic Thought: The Administration of Monetary Policy. Working Paper, Babson College. Moynihan , Daniel Patrick. 1990 . On the Law of Nations . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

... University Press Aspects of Marx’s Grundrisse as intellectual foundations for a major theme of Capital Allen Oakley, University of Newcastle, New South Wales I. Introduction A major theme with which Marx was concerned in his writings was the existence under...

...: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought. By Joseph J. Persky. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 183 pp. $28.50. Joseph Persky has written a very fine book that argues that economic thought in the American South has consistently centered around the theme of dependency...

... is a “new version of an earlier effort [that] extends and hopefully deepens the argument.” The themes of his criticism of what we may call the “classical revival” opened up by Sraffa remain, however, basically the same: that the revival is defective because of some alleged overall misinterpretation...

...Harro Maas; Mary S. Morgan Two themes are generative for revealing and understanding the history of observation in economics. First, we argue for the importance of noting that observation is an activity as well as a result, and second that observation is no more identical with quantification than...

...Ibanca Anand Abstract This article explores the peculiar approach to narrative argumentation taken by the MIT economist Evsey Domar (1914–97). Combining biography and textual analysis of his academic work reveals that Cold War themes permeated Domar's later research in comparative economic systems...

...Nicolas Vallois; Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled “Capitalism and the Jews.” The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man’s public interventions on the theme...

... to maintain an ironic distance from the inequality and greed that he saw around him while arguing that it did no harm, and allowed him to resolve, at least to his own satisfaction, an age-old debate about the ethical and political consequences of luxury consumption. Some of these themes were further developed...

... in Economics” to Be Accomplished , there was never a unified school. A major theme, particularly for Joan Robinson, was the theory of investment advanced by Keynes in his General Theory . This in turn is examined critically. The post-Keynesian group, with the notable exception of Nicholas Kaldor, proved...

... development. The analysis identifies three themes in Cohn's treatise that figured pivotally in the seminal writings that Veblen produced in the years that immediately followed: an interest in forging a new direction in economics, a via media between existing schools of political economy; a concern...

...Rosario Patalano In the 1750s, in the Italian states, the theme of monetary stability came to the center of public interest. In the Kingdom of Naples, particularly, the independence achieved under Charles of Bourbon stimulated many reform programs for the development and protection of foreign trade...

... and, through it, paradoxically, the legitimacy afforded to capital and interest, are the main themes of the book, and recur in Rerum Novarum . Some of the anomalies of the Encyclical—for example, the fact that while its nominal subject is the industrial society, it seems to deal with a preindustrial world—can...

... generated volumes of insightful history on the major problems in the US economy after World War II and solutions tried at the time. The same themes infuse Craufurd’s last book on columnist Walter Lippmann whom Craufurd came increasingly to admire. Craufurd himself adopted something akin to Lippmann’s theory...

... of economics has changed over time. My aim in this paper is to use the fiftieth anniversary of the History of Political Economy ( HOPE ) as an opportunity to reflect on that question. I survey articles published in HOPE in order to reconstruct historiographic changes. This paper has one central theme, which...

... in the conquest of poverty and the historical achievement of justice. These themes in Utilitarianism also go far toward reconciling that essay with Mill's utilitarian roots. Correspondence may be addressed to Joseph Persky, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607; e-mail: jpersky...

... recognition of the tendencies toward overproduction that threatened economic crisis, all contributed to shaping key ideas and themes of Karl Marx's Capital Volumes I and II, leaving a lasting imprint on Marxist political economy. Correspondence may be addressed to Tiago Mata, UCL Department of Science...

... economists brought the public to the fore of their discussions and adopted the roles of observers, commentators, and persuaders. As a consequence of this, the social purpose that underpinned the public pronouncements of this body of public (economic) intellectuals came to embody two interconnected themes...

...Craig Smith Abstract One of the most powerful themes in the contemporary revisionist literature on the Scottish Enlightenment is the desire to understand the disciplinary context within which political economy began to develop. Central to this is the observation that Adam Smith was a professor...

... narratives and introduces key themes from a 2021 workshop intended to bring that analysis to bear within the history of economics. Four important, but little noticed, functions of narratives emerging from that workshop are highlighted: exploration, explanation, closure, and reopening; and promising areas...

... of this other correspondence and the names of the correspondents are listed—seventy-six have so far been identified, with a further four unnamed—together with the known locations of the originals and known published versions. The article includes a commentary on a selection of themes from the correspondence...