.... The problem around which this history is set up is the problem that data observed passively might not display enough variations to reveal the rele- vant causal infl uences or relationships of the mechanisms that lie behind the phenomena. This problem, which I will call here the “problem of pas- sive...

... be of interest to, and illuminated by, collabora- tive social enquiry in a number of ways. Fact and Value There is intrinsic reasonable pluralism both as to which measure of inequality (or deprivation, afuence, etc.) should be used in a given exer- cise and how a given level of it should be interpreted in terms...

... the roots of Ely’s methodology, which he learned from German mentors who were greatly infl uenced by German liberal religion. Economists have rarely noticed Ely’s connection with liberal reli- gion, through what might seem the unlikely channel of economics. Ely himself made little of it. Even in his...

... and importance of Bernácerʼs writings on period analysis and business cycle theory (see Haberler 1942, xii; and section 2 below), but the extent of his infl uence upon Dennis H. Robert- son and Keynes is more problematical; on the one extreme there are the strong claims of José Villacís (1993...

... University of Commerce,Ichikawa, Japan), file IV-1148-1151. Harrod, Hansen, and Samuelson on the Multiplier-Acceleration Model: A Further Note Daniele Besomi This business of “in uence” is a very elusive one. —Dennis Robertson to Roy Harrod, 14 April...

... property of the world. Like Keynes, Hawtrey was deeply infl uenced by the philosophy of G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903).3 Moore claimed that goodness is an objective nonnatural property that exists in the world and that some things are in fact good. Moore’s assertion that goodness...

... existed do not speci¨cally deal with the in²uence of economists. In other words, contributions to the eco- nomics of science in the 1950s and in the 1960s are used to support the argument that economists played a leading role in the development and diffusion of the linear model during that period...

... of Political Economy 40:4 (2008) John Stuart Mill is an epigone of classical liberalism, and, especially in his later years, under the infl uence of his wife, full of feeble com- promises. He slips slowly into socialism and is the originator of the thoughtless confounding of liberal...

..., and Pigouʼs, welfare economics, differentiating it from that of Vilfredo Pareto. Henry Sidgwick is a minor fi gure in most such accounts. To be sure, his infl uence on the young Alfred Marshall is recognized. John Maynard Keynes, in his memorial to Marshall, quoted the tribute that Marshall made...

... Knight held a particular animosity toward the Catholic Church, and was one of the giants of early-twentieth-century neoclassicism, his infl uence did not deter Vito from the pursuit of an economics that he hoped was consonant with his Catholic beliefs. As we said more than once in this volume’s...

... reform, but respectfully disagreeing with Vauban’s plan as “nei- ther advantageous nor practical.” He also referred to a book by Vauban’s cousin, Boisguilbert, in a critical but respectful manner. Jose Benitez- Rochel and Luis Robles-Teigeiro (2003) have argued that Cantillon was infl uenced...

... such an interpretation. Cremaschi and Dascal stressed Ricardo’s conver- sion to Unitarianism, as well as the possible infl uence of Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) and Thomas Belsham (1750–1829) on his method. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Priestley and Belsham, both Unitar- ian ministers, were...

... 2008 by Duke University Press 190 Steven G. Medema impact came via his infl uence on A. C. Pigou, whose welfare analysis was very much a restatement of the Sidgwickian view, but undertaken with Marshallian analytical underpinnings.2 The writing of The Methods of Ethics was motivated largely...

... as a beachhead for Soviet in’uence in Africa and as evidence that decolonizing countries would join the Krem- lin s camp after casting off the colonial yoke. It would also serve, many Soviet experts hoped, as a case study in how poor countries could indus- trialize. In the early 1960s, many Soviet of‡cials...

.... Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Pesciarelli, Enzo. 1999 . Aspects of the In uence of Francis Hutcheson on Adam Smith. HOPE 31.3 : 525 -45. Petrella, F. 1968 . A. Smith's Rejection of Hume's Price-Specie-Flow Mechanism: A Minor Mystery Resolved. Southern Economic Journal 34.3 : 365 -74. Pocock...

...) and the concomitant need to con- textualize his suggestive but sometimes sketchy arguments, which requires taking account not only of the thinkers whose work or personal in™uence got him interested in the matters at hand in the rst place, but also of the debates in these elds at the time of writing. In consequence...

... the new methods and by producing a guidebook, the Introduc- tion to the Theory of Statistics (1911), and yet his infl uence was limited: his 1899 multiple regression exercise long remained the only multiple regression exercise. The econometricians did not study with him, con- sult him, or invite him...

... not form part of the intellectual heri- tage of development economists in the 1940s and early 1950s, but also because it has had no appreciable infl uence on development economics” (34; emphasis added). Why did development economics and growth theory evolve along sepa- rate paths for almost three...

... uence, which amplifi ed the effect of the fi rst four. He makes a detailed case that these char- acteristics were there from the outset, personifi ed—apart from that specifi c vision of the nature of economics—in President Harper, whose attitudes and ambitions shaped the institution at its foundation...

... from other centers of intellectual and political infl uence, which amplifi ed the effect of the fi rst four. He makes a detailed case that these char- acteristics were there from the outset, personifi ed—apart from that specifi c vision of the nature of economics—in President Harper, whose attitudes...