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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (4): 745–782.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to guide Vichy France’s socio-economic reforms. Peregrinations of a Corporatist Economist: François Perroux s Travels in Fascist Europe Nicolas Brisset and Raphaël Fèvre If we are not mistaken, fascism, like communism, will contribute to the building of the new humanism François Perroux (1936c: 66...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 June 2022
... the postwar period saw the emergence of a new kind of traveling economist whose task was to engineer and assess the implementation of modernization programs. In particular, the article analyzes the role of field trips in the career of Ladejinsky across Asia. The task of traveling experts was complicated...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 529–546.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Maria Bach Abstract The history of economics literature has few studies on how traveling impacts economists and their ideas. Much fewer still exist on the travels of lesser-known economists such as Romesh Chunder Dutt. Dutt (1848–1909) was the founder of agricultural economics in India, a civil...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 483–505.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Kemmerer's travels helped define him as both an economist and a political economist, observing how Kemmerer acted and reflected on his actions as scientist and policymaker, especially during his first missions. The case of Kemmerer exemplifies how visiting other countries and engaging different realities...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 571–583.
Published: 01 June 2022
... that enable us to capture that process, but it has its own especial characteristics. By studying their travel reports, the historian is led directly into economists' experiences of the economies they visited. We have an almost firsthand entry into what they saw, how they interpreted those impressions, and how...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 415–436.
Published: 01 June 2022
... and prospects for future speculative investments in the mines. However, while political economists blamed the financial crisis on the uncertainty generated by the actions of the Bank of England and private banks, the commercial travelers focused on other sources of observational and representational error...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 127–157.
Published: 01 December 2022
... will travel. An operational economist during the first part of her career, her turn to history was the avenue through which she could continue it. Leaving a lasting impression on her colleagues, her institution, and the economics profession overall, she reaped recognition of her role in furthering the status...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 547–569.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Mauro Boianovsky; Gerardo Serra Abstract Joan Robinson's infatuation with Mao's China remains the most controversial episode of the Cambridge economist's life. Drawing on the literatures on observation in science and economics, and economists' travels, we aim to overcome the dichotomy between...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 293–323.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Harro Maas At the end of the 1950s, resource economists developed a method to derive demand functions for recreation sites from travel cost data for recreation planning purposes. Based on this work, a second, direct method of measurement was developed in the early sixties that became known...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 393–414.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Alain Alcouffe; David Le Bris Abstract Economist turned entrepreneur Say was uncertain about his future in 1814 when he was commissioned by the French government to document British industrial progress at a critical point of the industrial takeoff. This trip offered the opportunity to observe...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... stylized facts travel into political debates, and how the choices made in characterizing an aspect of economic life (such as controlling for full-time work, but little else) interact with social movement activism, and folk understandings of economic life. The gender wage gap was first calculated...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 623–628.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Tiago Mata Historians of economics are helping us understand how economic knowledge is made. In concert with trends from the sociology and history of science, historians meticulously examine the practices of economists. But as they have trained their attention to the scales and sites where those...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (3): 471–496.
Published: 01 June 2023
... copied from Western models. Evidence for this point was, again, provided in a traveler's tale from the economist Norton T. Dodge. Dodge studied the Soviet tractor industry and traveled frequently to the Soviet Union for his research. He described how Soviet production of the Fordson tractor (first...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (2): 367–396.
Published: 01 April 2020
...? Robertson and Champernowne Revisited .” History of Economic Ideas 26 , no. 3 : 15 – 50 . Boianovsky Mauro . 2018b . “ HES Presidential Address: Economists and Their Travels, or the Time when JFK sent Douglass North on a Mission to Brazil .” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 40...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 507–527.
Published: 01 June 2022
... that the traveling economist sought “to endow the country with those ideal institutions that exist in his mind only, for he has been unable to persuade his own countrymen to adopt them” (Hirschman 1992 : 186). Tinbergen indeed had grown dissatisfied with calls for more democracy in the Netherlands...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 383–392.
Published: 01 June 2022
... countries in the second half of the nineteenth century made him disillusioned with Britain's wealth inequalities and led him to revise his perspective on the causes of India's poverty. Robinson—the only woman economist discussed in this special issue—traveled to China from the 1950s to the 1970s to study...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2012
.... Because of the difficulties economists
such as Phyllis Deane and Wolfgang Stolper experienced in forcing statis-
tical data from colonial and postcolonial Africa in the mold of Richard
Stone’s system of national accounts, they traveled there to observe and
ask local inhabitants about their economic...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 437–458.
Published: 01 June 2022
... meaning in order to deliver his message, as we have seen in his translation of Aesop's fable of the crow and the sheep. On many occasions, even when a specific Western economics traveled with integrity, it was introduced but not practiced, such as the business cycle theory. Yale-trained economist...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (Supplement): 33–60.
Published: 01 December 1996
... cost of airfares and the number of people traveling between the
U.K. and the United States, They are clearly linked. There is no reason
to believe that the increase in the numbers of economists crossing the
Atlantic has been any less than the number of passengers in general. As
contacts have...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 259–289.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of political economy articulated in these tales, an impact that has so far been insufficiently examined. While Martineau moved beyond political economy and devoted her energies to sociology, travel writing, history, topical journalism, and fiction, the inductive economists succeeded in attracting...
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