...Malcolm Rutherford A Worker’s Economist: John R. Commons and His Legacy from Progressivism to the War on Poverty . By Chasse John Dennis . New York : Transaction Publishers , 2017 . x; 317 pp. $59.95 . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 References Commons...

...Martha Lampland Two wage systems designed to improve productivity among Hungarian workers are compared. The first, calorie money, was a short-term solution to keep workers properly nourished and hard at work in a capitalist economy in the midst of inflationary chaos at the end of World War II...

... guidance. Labor economists had, of necessity, to become field observers. Three examples are examined. The first is the work of John Fitch, The Steel Workers (1910), done as a part of the Pittsburgh Survey. Fitch’s book on the steelworkers included his own observations of steel mills, interviews...

...Joan O'Connell In outlining his theory of economic growth and income distribution, Kaldor made a “logical slip”: while in his model, workers might save, workers' assets were accounted for. Kaldor acknowledged the strong influence of Kalecki and Keynes on his work. What is suggested here...

... disputes between workers' trade unions and employers within a specific country. Marshall's successor as Cambridge professor of political economy, A. C. Pigou, elaborated this suggestion. With express reference to Marshall, and mentioning the assistance of J. M. Keynes, Pigou used the offer-curve approach...

..., he thought, that there should be a reform in the composition of wages, abolishing all allowances, to foster the independence of workers and also then willing and productive work. The latter could be the basis of improving material and moral conditions. Correspondence may be addressed to William...

... they tended to redistribute income in favor of landlords at the expense of workers rather than capitalists. Indeed, it is shown that above all Tooke opposed the Corn Laws because they tended to lower the living standards of working people and, at times of unproductive harvests, contributed to acute shortages...

...Gregory R. Woirol Despite lack of support from professional economists, the idea of a tax on labor-saving machinery as a policy to help displaced workers had widespread popular appeal in the US throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s. A response to concerns about technological unemployment...

... the use of visual language in economics textbooks intended for nonspecialists, in periodicals such as the Survey (a monthly magazine intended for an audience of social workers), and by various state departments and agencies during the Roosevelt administration. We focus on two types of visuals...

... that economic development improved the situation of all, especially that of workers. However, their optimism did not extend to their analysis of the situation of women: most of them recognized that women were not benefiting from the general improvement in terms of wages, labor conditions, and social mobility...

... it in the Grundrisse, the “emphasis comes to be placed not on the state of be- ing objectified, but on the state of being alienated dispossessed, sold.” The “monstrous objective power” created by the social labor belongs not to the worker, but to the capitalist. From the standpoint of the capital-labor...

..., Economics Department, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686. History of Political Economy 32:3 © 2000 by Duke University Press. 586 History of Political Economy 32:3 (2000) property rights of capitalism as fair to workers. Instead of being critical of competition, Clark aimed...

... proprietors work harder than hired ag- ricultural workers and have greater incentives to raise productivity, save and invest, and limit family size. He even argued that proprietorship has a beneficial moral effect on the peasantry. If we strip away Mill’s mission- ary zeal for proprietorship...

... measurement of the “pain” or “disutility” of actual work done. He links labor supply to the subjective experience of work itself. On the other side, Austrian writers focus upon the importance of the al- ternative uses, or “opportunity cost,” of work time (see Green 1894). In their view, workers resist...

... strand of interpretation is that non-market-clearing money wages and involuntary unemployment ultimately depend in Keynes’s system on irrationality. ’ Workers, it is said, suffer from “money illusion.” This view is important as an early reaction to The General The- ory. Economists have never...

... devel- opment of a dual society. Both of these areas of inquiry are related to the process of absorption of traditional workers into industries in the capitalist sector-an area of central interest in economic development literature.’ A variant of the Fei-Ranis model...

... an insufficient income for the seller/producer/worker. Modern Catholic social thought has dealt with the latter moral problem and has taught that economic agents have a moral responsibility to make sure that market prices generate an adequate livelihood for those who produce or bring such goods...

... to the workers, the forces and resources of nature, and the means of production as the agents of production. There is, of course, an enormous heterogeneity between these three sets as well as within each set, and it is this which makes the mea- surement problems of political economy so much more severe...

.... Everett H. 1929 . Review of A Theory of the Labor Movement , by Perlman Selig . Social Service Review 3 : 523 – 25 . Fink L. 1991a . “ ‘Intellectuals’ versus ‘Workers’: Academic Requirements and the Creation of Labor History .” American Historical Review 96 : 395 – 421...

... Wicksell:Selected Papers on Economic Theory . London: Allen and Unwin. Magnusson, T. 1989 . Poor—Unemployed—Worker: A Study of Key Concepts in the Debate on the Social Problem in Sweden 1839-1913. In Language and the Construction of Class Identities , edited by B Stråth, 187 -221. Gothenburg, Condis Project...