...John S. Chipman History of Political Economy 11:4 1979 by Duke University Press Mill’s “superstructure”: how well does it stand up? John S. Chipman, University of Minnesota I. Introduction Apple yard...

...Virginie Gouverneur Abstract Some commentators state that Marshall conceptualizes well-being primarily in terms of the consumer's and producer's surpluses, whose interdependence with moral character rests on the ability of markets to produce their effects on character spontaneously. The purpose...

...Stephen Meardon Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells’s Conversion to Free Trade Stephen Meardon A moment of consequence to the postbellum U.S. tariff controversy was the conversion of David Ames Wells (1828–1898), commissioner of the revenue from 1865 to 1870, to free trade...

...Phillip W. Magness; James R. Harrigan In this article we explore the intellectual origins of John Maynard Keynes’s “Economic Possibilities” by introducing evidence of its parallels to a similar utopian message in H. G. Wells’s obscure didactic novel, The World of William Clissold (1926). Drawing...

...Paul Wells Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 References Davidson , Paul “Income and Employment Multipliers and the Price Level.” American Economic Review , Sept. 1962 , p. 536 -42. Grossman , H. I. “Was Keynes a ‘Keynesian’? A Review Article.” Journal...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Bradley W. Bateman John Maynard Keynes is well known for his work in government and academia, but much less is made of his flourishing career in journalism, where he sought to influence events and ideas as an outsider. However, his version of the insider-outsider distinction...

...Gerhard Michael Ambrosi In the pure theory of foreign trade, offer curves are still a well-known textbook device for analyzing conflicting interests between countries engaged in foreign trade. In his early days Alfred Marshall suggested that this analytical device be used also for industrial...

..., How to Live (twenty-one editions from 1915 to 1945, and 12 to 15 million copies of an abridgement distributed by Metropolitan Life), as well as three books opposing repeal of Prohibition. Fisher’s 1890 paper “A League for Peace,” reprinted in the New York Times in August 1914 and then as a pamphlet...

... Advisers to the MIT network. It also reveals the MIT economics department as a community of self-replicating economists who are largely trained by a few key advisers who were mostly trained at MIT as well. MIT has a disproportionate share of graduates who remain in American academe, which may...

...Chris Miller This article examines shifts in Soviet ideas about the economic and political role of the state. Drawing on documents from Russian archives as well as published debates, the article traces Soviet ideas about how states operate. Examining the role of writers such as Fedor Burlatsky...

...Olav Bjerkholt; Ariane Dupont Ragnar Frisch is well known for his contribution to econometrics as a new discipline in the 1930s and for his role in founding of the Econometric Society and as editor of Econometrica . Despite his active role within the econometrics community, it may be argued...

... in this elaborate system is to uphold the promise of the invisible hand of the Theory of Moral Sentiments and guarantee life's necessities, as well as support the new social drive that, through the deception of nature, is manifested in the accumulation of wealth. I will argue that according to Smith...

...Andrej Svorenčík Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although...

...Irwin L. Collier This paper is concerned with the practical side of establishing a continuous and broad historical record of what has been taught to whom by whom as well as when and where. The archival experience of the author has been that course syllabi and exams appear to be the historical...

...John Pullen A well-known and fundamental element in the population theory of Thomas Robert Malthus is the concept of prudential or moral restraint. A less well-known but just as fundamental element is the “desire of bettering our condition,” also described by Malthus as the “ vis medicatrix...

... that for the wartime US economy to achieve maximum performance, Congress should maintain a price system in lieu of bureaucratic rationing. Although “Design for a Streamlined War Economy,” as well as Lerner’s well-known 1944 book The Economics of Control , addresses the macroeconomy, only the 1942 paper explicitly...

...David Stack This article explores the basis for the well-known hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill, and offers an alternative explanation to those which have hitherto dominated discussion. After reviewing the importance of disagreements over economic doctrine and questions...

... manifold regional and national variants, under the general term Cameralism The usual genealogy of capitalist political economy, foundations of which were established by Marx ( Capital , Vol. I), starts with William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Turgot and then winds down a well-known line from Adam Smith...

...Aashish Velkar Index numbers are indirect measurements as well as composite quantities that present particular inferential challenges to the measurer and their intended audiences. The early history of the use of index numbers in British economics (ca. 1860–1914) shows that making inferences using...

... the military coup later that year he played a key role in the founding of the State Planning Organization as well as its institutional design. The organization was meant to represent neutral expertise above political parties, along the lines of a similar planning organization in the Netherlands. This article...