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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 February 2024
...H. Spencer Banzhaf [email protected] Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy . By Elizabeth Popp Berman . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2022 . 344 pp. $37.00 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (1): 120–137.
Published: 01 March 1976
... this discussion with a com- prehensive analysis of Keynes’ more politically oriented writings and activities, though I shall take account of some of them. The empirical reality that stimulated Keynes’ thinking on the prob- lems of unemployment included the current developments in the United States...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (1): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2003
.... 1997 . Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith . Lyme, N.H.:Edward Elgar. In Medio Stat Virtus: An Alternative View of Usury in Adam Smith’s Thinking Maria Pia Paganelli Some specific positions of Adam Smith have been, and still are, sources of problems and debates...
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History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 1990
.... Lawrence University JEFFREY T. YOUNG The probabilistic revolution. Edited by Lorenz Kriiger, Lorraine Daston, Mi- chael Heidelberger, Gerd Gigerenzer, and Mary Morgan. 2 vols. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987. 449, 459 pp. The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900...
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History of Political Economy 11857090.
Published: 10 April 2025
...Robert Leonard [email protected] Religious Influences on Economic Thinking: The Origins of Modern Economics . By Benjamin M. Friedman . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , 2024 . 85 pp. $30.00 . Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 References Balserak...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 291–318.
Published: 01 April 2024
... partial equilibrium models. Yet they reached radically different conclusions from their analyses. This article addresses this theoretical puzzle and proposes a plausible solution. To this end, the article reconstructs the evolution of Sraffa's and Samuelson's thinking on Marshallian partial equilibrium...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 177–206.
Published: 01 June 2017
...,” and especially who possessed it—lay at the heart of political-economic debate. This article looks specifically at one set of attitudes about commercial epistemology, what I call mercantile epistemology , which came to dominate economic thinking from 1714 to roughly 1750. Mercantile epistemology was based on two...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 511–548.
Published: 01 September 2018
... with the opportunity to apply his ideas about constitutions and, in return, nurture his theoretical thinking. Two historical developments were of importance in the evolution of Buchanan's thinking: the Southern reactions to the Supreme Court's injunction to desegregate public schools in the late 1950s...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 53–77.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Michele Alacevich Abstract Germany's expansion in Central and Eastern Europe was not just one among many aggressive moves by the Third Reich but the central strategy of the Nazi imperial project on the continent. Prominent economists, politicians, and think tanks agreed that crucial to this project...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (4): 613–622.
Published: 01 November 2013
... extends Lerner’s thinking into the internal organization of a bureaucratic defense establishment. This is new and noteworthy. I argue that Lerner’s paper represents one of the first examples of twentieth-century economic thinking applied to bureaucracy. Correspondence may be addressed to Daniel L...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 88–113.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Daniela Parisi This essay focuses on Francesco Vito (1902–1968), one of the most important Italian economists and a contributor to an extensive, thorough debate in Catholic social thinking, a debate at times accompanied and followed by exacting and solid experience in the real world, in an effort...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (4): 689–718.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Erwin Dekker Abstract Thinking in terms of order is believed to be a feature of several liberal economic schools, most famously the ordoliberal school. This article demonstrates that the work of Jan Tinbergen provides a good example of “thinking in orders” on the left. His analysis of the national...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 519–538.
Published: 01 June 2020
...James Tomlinson In the context of the recent spread of public and academic concern with economic inequality, this paper examines the evolution of British social democratic thinking about inequality, linking this evolution to the changing debates within economics on this issue. The discussion...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 561–587.
Published: 01 June 2020
... conducted in Washington, DC, Brasilia, and São Paulo among think tanks, governmental sectors, the World Bank, and market research institutes. By foregrounding the workings of a transnational network of experts, I chronicle how the middle-class language traversed circuits of science, policymaking, and market...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (5): 925–946.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Guy Numa The common narrative about Jean-Baptiste Say’s treatment of money holdings is that he denied the possibility of hoarding. I show that this interpretation of Say’s thinking is erroneous. Drawing upon the various editions of Traité and Cours and other lesser-known texts, I provide...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (3): 443–460.
Published: 01 June 2021
... individuals to plan and predict their economic and social future(s). This transition to future thinking opened European’s spaces of possibility during what Reinhart Koselleck famously labelled Europe’s Sattelzeit , c.1750–1850. Some have emphasized a European culture of dealing with contingency, which may...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (3): 371–387.
Published: 01 June 2021
... that had been manifest in Anglo-Saxon economics since the sixteenth century or earlier. Moreover, this tradition of thinking about commercial society became quite widespread and in the seventeenth and eighteenth century extended to the entire European continent where it has become commonly known, in its...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (3): 389–405.
Published: 01 June 2021
... often in the past has been acknowledged as an expression of—German. as it were—exceptionalism to the general history of economic doctrine and thinking. Correspondence may be addressed to Lars Magnusson by email: [email protected] . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (4): 633–672.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of Mints’s standing in Chicago monetary economics—and in American monetary economics more broadly—is deficient. In light of (1) the originality and the breadth of his monetary contributions, (2) the cross-fertilization of his thinking with that of Milton Friedman, and (3) the way Mints’s original...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (5): 925–947.
Published: 01 October 2021
... explore this influence, its history, and the role it played in Hotelling’s work and ideas. We show that political beliefs deeply shaped Hotelling’s approach to economics and that the rules of the Landlord’s Game helped him think about economic mechanisms. Correspondence may be addressed to Thomas...