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.... 1973 . Bodin's Daemon and His Conversion to Judaism. In Jean Bodin , edited by H. Denzer. Munich: C.H. Beck. Ben-Yehuda , N. 1981 . Problems Inherent in Socio-Historical Approaches to the European Witch Craze. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 20 . 4 : 326 -38. Bezold , F...

... of hearsay) even when it is incorrect. (Sometimes the errors of memory are trivial: for exam- ple, Patinkin [188] left the University of Illinois before, not because of, the witch- hunt of the Keynesians.) Indeed, hearsay evidence that conflicts with later...

... contextualized account of Harry Dexter White's life and accomplishments than had been given by previous historians. When, in the aftermath of World War II, large parts of Europe came under the sway of the Soviet Union and China too was “lost” to the Communists, a “McCarthyite witch hunt” was on for people...

... economics,’ but witch- hunting, book-burning, madness pure and simple” (p. 100). I do not always agree with Martin but I share his tolerance for pluralism in, as he affirmed in one of his essays on radical economics, “the free, if imperfectly competitive, marketplace of ideas” (p. 763...

... much the same doctrines.25As Socrates had gone, so might go Smith. Scotland was the last country in western Europe to quit burning witches.26 Smith took the trouble of pointing out in the essay on astronomy that the doctrine of the four elements had to be introduced secretly among...

... . The Mathematization of Economic Theory American Economic Review 81 ( March ): 1 -7. Devine , Edward T. 1894 . The Economic Function of Woman Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 5 ( November ): 361 -76. Easlea , Brian . 1980 . Witch Hunting, Magic and the New...

... of turning its back to science and of launching a political witch-hunt. This episode illustrates a need in France (and hopefully elsewhere) to clarify (including with the use of mathematics) the stakes and the short- comings of accepted analysis, and to put the practical issues of the pub- lic debate...

.... 386 Karen I. Vaughn and its ability to satisfy needs. However, people could make mistakes about a good's properties. For instance, at a more primitive time people could believe that witch doctors cured disease, but with the advance- ment of knowledge they would come to realize that such a belief...

...] differs from Western descriptions of the millennium only because of the bizarre prominence of industrial products.“ Marvin Harris. C‘o\t*s. Pigs, Wtrrs tirid Witches: The Riddlc ofCi4lturr (New York. 1975). pp. 134 f. Spiegel Adam Smith’s heavenly city 487 them his own...

... of silence.” He was persuaded that something more than a dispassionate pursuit of knowledge affected professional practice in this period. During the witch-hunting days, in Johnson’s view, American economists were made aware that it was 5. In the 1870s and 188Os, the Yale administration...

... tensions, and in 1919–20 culminated in a witch hunt for profiteers and speculators. Yet these “incorrect” beliefs did not always lead to unwise policies, for popu- lar understanding of the causes of the rising cost of living also supported policies such as product labeling and parcel post, and drove...

...: HarperPerennial. Easlea, Brian. 1980. Witch Hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy: An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities. Fox Keller, Evelyn. 1983. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work o f Barbara McClintock. New York: Freeman...

... which ascribes all the irregular events of nature to the favour or displeasure of intelligent, though invisible beings, to gods, daemons, witches, genii, fairies” (Astronomy 3:2). Hume is in agreement: “polytheism or idolatry was, and necessarily must have been, the first and most ancient...

..., Currie would become a highly visible and leading advocate of expan- sionary fiscal policy, while White, at the Treasury, was to be a coarchi- tect, with Keynes, of the Bretton Woods system. Both would fall victim to anti-Communist witch-hunts in the late 1940s, in White’s case perhaps at the cost...

..., 156-57). Many other lives were ruined (Galbraith 1977a, 52; Samuelson 1992,238). A Democratic party senator was driven to suicide by the witch-hunters (Hoffman 1988, 23 1-32). MIT became embroiled in these tragic circumstances when Roy Cohn misrepresented the evidence of Professor...

... was a matter of definition, and fifty was a conservative estimate for the number of such people at the university. Yet it was politically dangerous, Kernmerer warned, to “go witch hunting among the faculty for Reds, Pinks and Socialists” (Stoddard to Dillavou, 14 August 1950; Dillavou to Stod- dard...

... of nature to the favour or dis- pleasure of intelligent, though invisible beings, to gods, deamons, witches, genii, faires. For it may be observed, that in all Polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of Heathen antiquity, it is the irregular events of nature...

...- tually fell foul of the anticommunist witch hunts of the early postwar period. In 1949 he took up a World Bank position in Colombia and settled there, becoming at the same time something of an un-person in U.S. academic circles. His publications were omitted from the “Classified Bibliography...

... (Breit and Cul- bertson 1976, 16). Increasingly in the 1940s and 1950s, John Maynard Keynes and his American disciples, led by Alvin Hansen, became the favorite targets of cold war witch-hunters. This was partly because Keynesian macro- economic theory seemed to provide a persuasive rationale...

... it is incorrect. (Sometimes the errors of memory are trivial: for exam- ple, Patinkin [188] left the University of Illinois before, not because of, the witch- hunt of the Keynesians.) Indeed, hearsay evidence that conflicts with later percep- tions can illuminate...