.... Book Reviews 1039 Marx’s Wage Theory in Historical Perspective: Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation. By KennethLapides. Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 1998. x; 275 pp. $59.95 Marx’s mature theory of wages can be summarized relatively easily if we assume that the Ricardian...

... & Brothers. Henryk Grossmann on Marx’s Wage Theory and the “Increasing Misery” Controversy Kenneth Lapides The document that follows this discussion is excerpted from Henryk Grossmann’s 1929 work, Das Akkumulations- und Zusammenbruchsge- setz des kapitalistischen Systems (The Law...

... 0 1980 by Duke University Press The role of nominal wage contracts in Keynes’ General Theory Reuven Brenner , University of Chicago I. Introduction Recent developments in the theory of wage contracts are relevant to Keynes’ thinking...

.... Bowles , S. , and H. Gintis, 1977 . ‘The Marxian theory of value and heterogeneous labour: a critique and reformulation.’ Cambridge Journal of Economics 1 : 173 -92. Bowley , A. L. 1900 . Wages in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century . Cambridge. Cantillon , R. 1959...

..., interest and wages: collected essays on economic theory, Volume 11. By John Hicks. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xiii, 351, including index. $32.00. This second volume consists of essays on macro dynamics. The title selected is ‘Keynes’s turned the other way up’ (p...

... that existed was difficult and expensive. And theoretical debates did not yet focus on the earnings of individuals, as they would after the rise of human capital theory in economics and stratification research in sociology. Although the gender wage gap was not yet a recognizable object, let alone...

... wages, a feature that was contested soon after, on empirical grounds, by Dunlop and Tarshis. An ambitious research program integrating macroeconomics and imperfect competition was elaborated to reconcile theory and observations, but was suddenly discontinued. This program was sufficiently ripe...

...Norikazu Takami This essay examines how cost-push inflation theories, which highlight autonomous increases in wages and other production costs as a cause of inflation, played a decisive role in the policy debate over the interpretation of the price movements of the second half of the 1950s. In late...

... (or on the Continent). In England, on the other hand, there had lbeen (thelong domination of an orthodox body of doctrine comprising method and policy as well as theory and in- cluding, in particular, theories regarding labor, value, and wages (analytically linked in their simplifying assumptions) which had...

... and 2007–8. We also show that, despite the partial abandonment of theory by applied microeconomists, the labor market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists. Correspondence may be addressed to Jeff E. Biddle, Department of Economics, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824; e...

... assistant in these matters, mentioned Robbins 1930 only cursorily when he himself published his Theory of Wages (1932). Thus we are now at question 1 of the above list. Robbins was not “cele- brated” in the sense that he set a precedent or a paradigm for labor market analysis. His article was indeed...

.... A second section discusses the basic features of Luther's economic “theory.” This gives rise to a brief discussion of the development of the money supply in Germany in the period and the most likely development in the velocity of the circulating coins. Both are important for setting the context...

... the generalization of wage labor, mechanization, and large-scale farming. In his last years, during the early 1830s, Sismondi took aim at “industrialism” itself, a term which for him grouped together all those contemporary economic theories asserting that society should be organized by and for production exclusively...

... . Productivity, Wages and Nutrition. Part I: The Theory and Part II: Some Observations. Journal of Development Economics 5 : 331 -98. Brailsford , H. N. 1948 . The Life-Work of J. A. Hobson . London: L. T. Hobhouse Memorial Trust Lecture No. 17. Brassey , Thomas. 1872 . Work and Wages...

... responds like any normal commodity, rising and falling (along with consumptiodsavings) with the price incentive. 2. Low-Wage Theory Most scholars have regularly interpreted the policy recommendations and economic theories found in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century liter- ature within...

... or employed by another person, is not novel. The Georgian theory of wage determina- tion, however, is of considerable interest. George was always an ardent opponent of the wages-fund theory. 22 He argued vehemently that adherence to the wages-fund theory and the definition of capital...

...Scott Gordon Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Wage-Fund Controversy: The Second Round Scott Gordon I. INTRODUCTION INCLASSICAL political economy, the theory of the wage fund...

... on wage theory, praising the applied aspect of the authors claims, their wide experiences in practical matters (Edgeworth 17. The term blacklegging (i.e., smuggling), with its implied strong moral judgment, was also used by Beatrice Webb: The first necessity is the exclusion of illegitimate...

... of Ricardian wage theory, which holds that there is a meaningful natural wage around which the market rate fluctuates, over the new view advanced by Casarosa, John Hicks, and Hollander to the effect that the natural wage is an irrelevant variable prior to the stationary state. Conceding that Ricardo...

.... Political Science Quarterly 12.4 : 589 -602. ____. 1899 . The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest, and Profits . New York:Macmillan. ____. 1900a . Disarming the Trusts. Atlantic Monthly 85.507 : 47 -55. ____. 1900b . Trusts. Political Science Quarterly 15.2 : 181 -95...