...Esther-Mirjam Sent Duke University Press 2002 Malcolm, Janet. 1990 . The Journalist and the Murderer . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. McCarthy, F. T. 2000 . A Tale of Two Economists:Shleifer and Hay in the Dock. Economist , 30 September. So You Want to Be a Historian of Economics...

...Marina Bianchi Book Reviews The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society. By Regenia Gagnier. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2000. 352 pp. $16.00. This book is a collection of papers unified by a common theme:to provide a cultural reconstruction...

... 0 1984 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 Marshall, the human agent and economic growth: wants and activities revisited John Dennis Chasse I. Marshall’s Model of Man Alfred Marshall’s approach...

...-interest, and passions, both of these groups nevertheless sought a moral order that was binary. In other words, they wanted to understand the world in terms of good and evil—of what kind of commercial behavior was permissible and what was not. The difference, unsurprisingly, was over what each group...

...Craufurd Goodwin This article explores the evolution of perceptions of the behavior of consumers among economists and others. The article has three parts. The first part discusses the development of a hypothesis about the stability of this behavior: that the consumers know what they want...

... of the Enlightenment. We want to show that the geographical and social context in which the scientific activities of the physiocrats took place structured the relationships inside each of the two communities and influenced their mode of production and dissemination of economic thought. Correspondence may...

... in the American colonies. The debates and discussions in which Paine wants to intervene cannot be the same in Wilkes's England as in revolutionary France. Locating the proposal of a universal basic income in this context has important implications for the history of its conception. It compels us to highlight...

..., and, in the late 1960s, university unrest. We argue that Buchanan moved from a rather optimistic conception that constitutions complement market mechanisms, and constitutional manipulation can be tolerated if market mechanisms were sufficiently important to nonetheless let individuals do what they want...

... interpretation of Aristotle, with a reply by William S. Kern Spencer J. Pack In a very interesting article in HOPE 15.4 William Kern argues (among other things) that Aristotle sees the existence of unlimited wants as an unfortunate influence which causes people to value means above ends (p...

... accepted definition of economics is this: “Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a rela- tionship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses’’ (p. 16). The two major assumptions made are that resources (means) are scarce and that ends (wants) are unlimited...

... Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. 1. Essays in Biography (New York, 1951). 2. E.g., J. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (London, 1954), p. 481. 3. This is not to suggest that Malthus considered wants to be fixed other than in the short run. In fact, as will be clear...

... investigation. Multidimensional Concepts of Goods The dual relationship of wants (Bediirfnisse) and the goods (Giiter) which satisfy them is at the foundation of Menger’s understanding of 12. At almost the same time, Carl’s brothers, Max and Anton, were facing similar career decisions. Max chose...

...; it is not a science and should not be presented or conducted as a science. Reading this history reinforced my view that macroeconometricians wanted, and want, it both ways; they want mac- roeconometrics to have direct policy relevance and they want it to be a science...

... it too, as he shows by discussing the limitations of using an extreme version of the conservation ethic: “Conservation as a single principle of action involves the equal im- portance of future wants and present wants. It requires that the want of the infinitely distant future shall...

... . “On the Definition of Public Goods: Assessing Richard A. Musgrave's Contribution.” CES Working Papers, no. 2014.04 . ———. 2016 . “A Genealogy of the Concept of Merit Wants.” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought . http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2016.1186202 . Dougherty Keith L...

.... O'Driscoll , G. , and M. Rizzo 1985 . The Economics of Time and Ignorance . Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Parsons , T. 1931 . Wants and Activities in Marshall. Quarterly Journal of Economics 46 : 101 -40. Pigou , A. , ed. 1925 . Memorials of Alfred Marshall . London: Macmillan...

.... This means both that they become dependent on each other and that their needs and wants can only be satisfi ed through trading in several different markets. Inevitably, a fundamental question that needs to be answered is whether this interdependence leads to a continuous confl ict or to a poten- tial...

...Byrd L. Jones Robert M. Collins New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Pp. 209. $24.00. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 References Despres , Emile 1959 . Class notes by author (Jan. 30). Editorial 1942 . ‘Freedom from want.’ Fortune 26 ( Oct. ): 126...

...Lawrence H. White John W. Houghton Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991. 210 pp. $49.95. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Book Reviews 763 The target audience will not want to let this book stay long on the “to be read...

... who, motivated by his dedication to the Social Gospel, wanted to use the tools of economics to make the world more hospitable to the poor and oppressed, that is, to make it more just. However, inheriting an American tradition of political econ- The United States...