...Sandra J. Peart Margaret Schabas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 192 pp. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews 763 A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathe- matical...

... for “precise logical truth.” Bentham and William Wordsworth disputed the treatment of the poor. Bentham proposed forcing them into houses of industry. Wordsworth, who declared that “man is dear to man... [because] we have all of us one human heart,” celebrated a beggar’s power as a social agent. He reminds...

.... Book Reviews 777 Early Mathematical Economics: William Whewell and the British Case. By James P. Henderson, with a foreword by Harvey Becher. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. xxvi; 327 pp. $69.50. James Henderson, a former president of the History of Economics Society, has...

.... 1955 . The Oculus sacerdotisand Some Other Works of William of Pagula. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 5th ser., 5 : 81 -110. ____. 1970 . William of Pagula and the Speculum regis Edwardi III. Mediaeval Studies 32 : 326 -36. Briggs, Charles F. 1999 . Giles of Rome's“De...

... Model. HOPE 2.2 : 419 -31. ____. 1975 . William Whewell's Mathematical Statements. The Manchester School 43.4 : 396 -400. Creedy, J. 1989 . Whewell's “Translation”of J. S. Mill. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 36.3 : 266 -81. ____. 1992 . Demand and Exchange in Economic...

... than Light:Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____, ed. 1994 . Natural Images in Economic Thought . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mosselmans, B. 1998 . William Stanley Jevons and the Extent of Meaning in Logic...

...Robert C. Bannister, Jr. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 I ~~JRINC~his lifetime, William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) had a varied career, filled with controversy. An Episcopalian minister in the late 1860’s, he accepted the chair...

.... “A Note on the Balanced Budget Multiplier”. Economic Journal 66 ( 1956 ) : 361 -65. Peacock , A. T. , and G. K. Shaw. The Economic Theory of Fiscal Policy . New York, 1971 . Salant , William A. “Taxes, Income Determination, and the Balanced Budget Theorem”. Review of Economics...

...Bowman N. Hall Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Bowman Hall is Temporary Senior Lecturer of Social Science at the Western Australian Institute of Technology in South Bentley and Assistant Professor of Economics at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. William...

... policy and those of the profes- sion, and because of the wealth of astute observation which came from this inter- esting assemblage of people. Duke University CRAUFURDD. GOODWIN Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons, Volumes I-VII. Edited by R...

.... ____. 1963 . The Myth of the Old Poor Law and the Making of the New. Journal of Economic History 23.2 : 151 -84. ____. 1964 . The Poor Law Report Reexamined. Journal of Economic History 24.2 : 229 -45. Cliffe-Leslie, T. E. 1874 . Review of A Plea for Peasant Proprietors, by William Thornton...

...Simon Cook Book Reviews William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. By Harro Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii; 330 pp. $75.00. Harro Maas has produced an extremely interesting book on Jevons. Building upon Michael White’s explorations of Jevons’s use...

...David Laidler The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton . By Murphy Antoin E. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . ix ; 233 pp. £23.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews The Cost of Living in America...

...Lars Magnusson William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic . By McCormick Ted . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . 352 pp. $99.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic...

...E. K. Hunt History of Political Economy 11:4 1979 by Duke University Press Utilitarianism and the labor theory of value: a critique of the ideas of William Thompson E. K. Hunt, University of Utah...

...Vincent J. Tarascio William Jaffe, 1898 - 1980 (January 1979) The man William Jaffe was born in New York City on June 16, 1898. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants whose livelihood involved the purchase of run-down...

...Vincent J. Tarascio A bibliography of the writings of William Jaffe A. Books or Chapters in Books of Collected Papers 1 . Lcs Th4orirs c;c.onomiyues et sociales de Thorstein Vehlen . Published doc- toral dissertation. Paris: Girard et Briere, 1924. Reprinted...

... , Benjamin , trans. 1921 . The Politics of Aristotle . Edited by W. D. Ross. Oxford. Kern , William 1983 . ‘Returning to the Aristotelian paradigm: Daly and Schumacher.’ History of Political Economy 15 . 4 : 501 -12. Marx , Karl , 1970 . A contribution to the critique of political...

... of mathematical economics.’ In A. A. Cournot, Researches into the mathematical principles of the theory of wealth , trans. Nathaniel T. Bacon. New York. Henderson , James P. 1973 . ‘William Whewell's mathematical statements of price flexibility, demand elasticity, and the Giffen paradox.’ Manchester...

...J. M. Pullen Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, The University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W. 2351 AUSTRALIA. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 References Anderson , William] 1997a . The iniquity of banking: or, bank notes proved...