...Ross B. Emmett The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized...

...Gideon Rosenbluth By Shirley Spafford. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 272 pp.$46.00. 2001 Book Reviews 669 contains much material about the efforts to emulate it, efforts often described as “Americanization...

...A. W. COATS Saul H. Hymans. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 279. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 History of Political Economy I8:3 (I986) A selected bibliograpy of signijcant works about Adam Smith. By Martha Bolar Lightwood...

... of this article for their helpful comments. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Bourne , H. R. Fox . 1887 . English Newspapers . 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus. Bourne , H. R. Fox . 1871 . The Newspaper Press . 2 vols. London: Tinsley Brothers. Grant...

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...Howard Raiffa Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Flood , M. M. 1952 . Some Experimental Games: Research Memorandum RM-789. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation. Kuhn , H. , and A. W. Tucker, eds. 1950 . Contributions to the Theory of Games , vol. 1...

...Malcolm Rutherford Correspondence may be addressed to Malcolm Rutherford, Department of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C.,Canada V8W 2Y2. Duke University Press 2004 Anderson, Theodore W. 1955 . The Department of Mathematical Statistics...

..., “It seems so grotesque that the author of Quia Pauper Amavi should be spending his valuable time and enthusiasm chasing a pure logical fallacy.” Susan Howson, University of Toronto 10.1215/00182702-2009-009...

...Donna Zapf As dean of Duke University’s Graduate School, Craufurd Goodwin initiated the foundation of a Graduate Liberal Studies program. This essay pays tribute to his contribution to the program as an administrator and teacher over three decades. It describes Goodwin’s thoughts about graduate...

...E. Roy Weintraub This paper reviews Craufurd Goodwin’s distinctive role as scholar-administrator from his arrival as a student at Duke in 1955 to his move to the Ford Foundation in 1970. Correspondence may be addressed to E. Roy Weintraub, Department of Economics, Duke University, 213 Social...

...Gianluca Damiani Abstract This article offers a historical reconstruction of the birth and shaping of two research communities at the University of Rochester, that of economists and that of political scientists. Starting from the late 1950s, the arrival at Rochester of the renowned mathematical...

...Mason Barnett Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 The Papers of Carl Menger in the Special Collections Department, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University Mason Barnett In 1985 the Duke University Manuscript Department, now the Special Collections Department, in conjunction...

...James R. Wible W. W. Wartley, III. La Salle, Ill. Open Court, 1990. xx, 315 pp. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References McNulty , Paul J. 1980 . The Origins and Development of Labor Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press. 348...

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... of the move from geocentric to heliocentric understandings of the solar system. If we imagine ourselves at a distance from our own position, we humble the arrogance of our self-love as we realize we are not the center of the universe. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments , Smith describes the realization that we...

...-output, or in the tradition of national income accounting. As concerns the three main figures of this article—the empirical researchers Tinbergen, Hollis Chenery, and Adelman—each developed his or her own approach to modeling: modeling in stages, modeling to capture universal patterns, and factor...

...Roger E. Backhouse The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression . By Burgin Angus . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2012 . x ; 303 pp. Hardcover $29.95 . Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics...

... that will be meaningful.” When the war started, Hotelling and a team of university colleagues (Abraham Wald, Milton Friedman, and Leonard “Jimmy” Savage were among the most prominent members) founded the Statistical Research Group, to help with the war effort. Hotelling spent thirty-nine months, starting from July...

...E. Roy Weintraub MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this article the author argues that the immediate postwar...

... and political discrimination. The ethics committees dealt with the involvement of association members with nonuniversity patrons, in the wake of revelations about Project Camelot. The committees on political discrimination examined allegations that university administrations were discriminating against radical...