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...Heinz D. Kurz; Neri Salvadori Mark Blaug has written another paper in which he attacks “Sraffian” economics. He characterizes his piece as “a new version of an earlier effort [that] extends and hopefully deepens the argument.” A careful scrutiny of the paper shows that Blaug reiterates once again...

...Daniel L. Cuda This article introduces a previously unpublished paper by Abba P. Lerner that offers one of the first examples of economic ideas interacting with issues of bureaucracy and public organization. Written in 1942, the paper is titled “Design for a Streamlined War Economy,” and it argues...

...Nikola Regent Although published for the first time only in 1849, La Decima scalata is the first treatise ever written on progressive taxation. Composed in the 1510s or 1520s, it is set in late fifteenth-century Florence, after the expulsion of Piero de’ Medici: in two discorsi , first in favore...

...Robert Van Horn In spite of disagreement over whether or not Henry Simons committed suicide, no one has written about the circumstances surrounding his death. The purpose of this essay is to draw from archival material—much of which has been recently unearthed—to examine Simons’s death in detail...

... Solow developed his long-run growth model, and ends in the mid-1990s with the publication of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory written with Frank Hahn. This narrative involves different economists associated with various research traditions, from the neoclassical synthesis in the 1960s...

... scientific values. As such, the histories written by econometricians reflect the scientific image of their discipline in a given period. Each image of a period is drawn by denominating forerunners and founding fathers and uses the language of the dominant philosophy of science of that day. At the end...

...Jean-Baptiste Fleury; Alain Marciano This essay analyzes what Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner have written for various media (either in print or online) that are not strictly aimed at academic audiences. We provide an historical account of how they became interested in such activities, from...

... affections as an essential means of harmonizing these two dimensions. To prove this point, the article examines several economic texts written before Marshall's major economic treatise, Principles of Economics , the first edition of which appeared in 1890. These texts have received little consideration...

...Charles R. McCann, Jr.; Vibha Kapuria-Foreman Abstract Much has been written about the philosophy of social control, particularly as it developed from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1920s. Yet little if any appreciation has been given to the work of James MacKaye and Helen Sumner...

...Robert Leonard E. F. Schumacher is best remembered as the author of the best-selling Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Mattered (1973), one of the key books of the counterculture of the 1970s and the only such one written by an economist. He was also the instigator...

... of econometrics has arisen primarily from within econometrics itself and that its stories have been written mainly by econometricians. The conclusion of the current survey is that econometrics as a discipline remains of interest only to the econometricians but that the artifacts created by econometricians have...

...; and the morality of capitalism. In doing this, we juxtapose materials written at different stages of his career. While the context and the theoretical framework within which Keynes developed his economic thinking changed substantially, our argument is that beneath these many changes in his circumstances...

...Matthieu Ballandonne Kenneth J. Arrow's 1962 article “The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing” is considered a seminal contribution to endogenous growth theory. However, no history of its origins has been written yet. We aim to fill this gap by studying the genesis of Arrow's article...

... economic arguments to existing literary and biographical ones to buttress this assessment that Utopia is an irony, written to undercut rather than to advance the idealization of a communist social order. Correspondence may be addressed to Samuel Bostaph, Department of Economics, University of Dallas...

...Goulven Rubin In the opening sentence of Money, Interest, and Prices , Patinkin noted that his book was the outgrowth of ideas first presented in his doctoral dissertation. This claim has attracted the attention of most scholars who have written about his works in recent years. As shown by articles...

...Rudolf Hilferding An English translation of a 1911 article in German on English political economy written by Rudolf Hilferding. This is a translation of Rudolf Hilferding, “Aus der Frühzeit der englischen Nationalökonomie,” Die Neue Zeit , 29 (26, Band 1): 908–21. All material in square...

...E. Roy Weintraub In this review essay of Steven G. Medema and Anthony M. C. Waterman's collection of some of Paul Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written “Whig history” is spurious. Moreover, the author argues that Samuelson's own...

... supposedly written by Darwin to Marx, dated 13 October 1880, in which the author of the Origin of Species politely declines his correspondent’s offer to dedicate to him one of this writer’s works on Darwin’s thought, was written not to Marx, but to his son-in-law, Edward Aveling. Feuer points...

... is the economics of cigarette addiction. Two illustrative publications are “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Emerging Contrary Results in Economics” (Journal of Economic Methodology, December 1997); and “An Economic Theory of Cigarette Addiction” (Journal of Health Economics, Jan- uary 1999), written with Steve...

... E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ix; 248 pp. Hardback $95.00. This stimulating volume raises several very interesting questions: How should the his- tory of the social sciences (or any one social science) be written? Should a historian...