The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent work in the history of economics and the history of science. Review essays on new publications examine a range of subjects, including: David Hume's political economy; conceptions of economic morality in American thought; Frank Knight and the Austrians on institutions; Friedrich Engels; Austrian views on entrepreneurship; Coase and Pigou on government intervention; Hayek and conservatism; the history of the "living wage" notion; methodological consideration of economics and econometrics; and Paul Heyne's essays on economic and ethics.
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This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's Prosperity and Depression; reminisciences on the New Deal by Jacob Viner; and Don Lavoie's lectures on comparative economic systems. It reviews essays on books about Schumpeter, Keynes, Mincer, comparative economic history, and the Chicago School; as well as reviews of books dealing with the repeal of the Corn Laws, economic systems and economic growth, the Enlightenment and post-modernism, and virtue ethics and capitalism
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Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in France : from natural order to artificial worlds / Marcel Boumans -- Klein's Economics confronts the economy : confronting economists who are confronting economics / David Colander -- Economic singularism / William Barnett, Walter Block --Duncan Foley's Adams fallacy : did Adam Smith produce fallacy or has fallacy been thrust upon him? / Warren J. Samuels -- Montes and Schleisser's New voices on Adam Smith ; Adam Smith : one author, many contexts / Willie Henderson -- Peart and Levy's : the vanity of the philosopher : sympathy lost (and regain'd?) / Andrew Terjesen -- Schonhardt-Bailey's From the Corn Laws to free trade : complementary forces behind the repeal of Britain's Corn Laws / Andrea Maneschi -- Augello and Guidi's Economists in Parliament : the determinants of thought / Robin F. Neill -- Kornai's By force of thought we're all Austrians now : J(c)Øanos Kornai and the Austrian school of economics / Peter T. Leeson -- Backhaus' Entrepreneurship, money, and coordination : which way forward in Hayekian social theory : evolution or design? / William N. Butos -- Heertje's Schumpeter on the economics of innovation / David Reisman -- Parker's John Kenneth Galbraith : the conventional wisdom and the pretense of knowledge / Steven Horwitz -- Donald Stabile's Forerunners of modern financial economics prior knowledge : financial economics before Markowitz / Neil T. Skaggs -- Van Overtveldt's The Chicago School on the theory of economic policy of the Chicago school of economics / Warren J. Samuels -- How should we think of the success of the Chicago school of economics? / Ross B. Emmett -- Early and often or too late and not enough? / Robert Leeson -- Clark's State and status : the complexity of power / Roger E. Backhouse -- Social status on the road from feudalism to the age of enlightenment / Y.S. Brenner -- Unpacking terminology, reassessing theory / Evelyn L. Forget -- State formation in early modern Europe / Keith Tribe -- Skousen's The big three in economics : three strikes and you're out / Humberto Barreto
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Formal modelling vs / Daniele Besomi -- Ghazanfar's Medieval Islamic economic thought / Salim Rashid -- New light on Malthus : the Kanto Gakuen collection / A.M.C. Waterman -- Postmodernism, H.A. Innis, and the media of communication / Robin Neill -- Was Shakespeare an economic thinker? / Douglas Bruster -- Getting Hilbert right / E. Roy Weintraub -- The new value controversy / Fletcher Baragar -- Montes's Adam Smith in context / Jeffrey T. Young -- Throwing down the gauntlet on a neoclassical economics of science / Aaron M. McCright -- Montes's monopolistic competition in retrospect / Humberto Barreto -- Notes on the fifth Summer Institute for the Preservation of the Study of the History of Economics / Warren J. Samuels -- Pray clear the way, there, for these, ah, persons : the status of women in classical political economy / Sandra J. Peart -- Reconsidering the place of women in classical economics / Jennifer Ball -- Interpreting the Bible, the U.S. constitution, and the history of economic thought / Warren J. Samuels -- An analysis of some essays in the history of economic thought / Leonidas Montes
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The invisible hand of God in Adam Smith / Andy Denis -- Introductory notes to the study of the history of economic thought (set II) / Warren J. Samuels -- Hodgson's The evolution of institutional economics / Bradley W. Bateman -- Hunt's Critical history of economic thought / J.E. King -- Hoover's Causality in macroeconomics / Julian Reiss -- Maes's Economic thought and the making of European monetary union / Robert W. Dimand -- Sakamoto and Tanaka's The rise of political economy in the Scottish enlightenment / Willie Henderson -- Wood's Medieval economic thought / Willie Henderson -- McCann's The Elgar dictionary of economic quotations / Warren J. Samuels -- Busch's The eclipse of morality : science, state and market / Glenn L. Johnson -- Wood's The correspondence of Thomas Reid / Marianne Johnson -- Featherman and Vinovskis's Social science and policy making / William J. Barber -- Breit and Hirsch's Lives of the laureates : eighteen Nobel economists / Warren J. Samuels -- Some principles of Adam Smith's Newtonian methods in the wealth of nations / Eric Schliesser -- Inequality of what among whom? : rival conceptions of distribution in the 20th century / Robert S. Goldfarb, Thomas C. Leonard
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The series presents materials in two fields, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, both broadly considered. The main annual volumes present articles comparable to what one would find in a journal, except that long pieces are welcome. Also presented are review essays on new works in the two fields, some of which are multiple reviews; plus occasional mini-symposia. The archival supplements present hitherto unpublished materials - lecture notes, papers, longer manuscripts, correspondence, etc.- of interest in the two fields. Research in the History of Economic Thought
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Presents lecture notes from courses at the University of Wisconsin during 1955-6 given by Hans Hl. Gerth and Edwin E. Witte, together with correspondence of Selig Perlman. This volume also presents notes given by John U Nef, Charles O Hardy, and Chester W Wright, on European economic history, money and banking, and U.S. economic history
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Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. The symposium features contributions from Per Bylund, Richard E. Wagner, our own Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and his co-author, Thiago Oliveira, as well as an essay from guest editor Ross B. Emmett. The Volume also includes general-research essays from David C. Coker, J. Patrick Higgins, and Charles R. McCann, Jr.
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Further correspondence of Selig Perlman / Warren J. Samuels -- Notes and other materials from John Ulric Nef's course on French industrial history since the Reformation, Economics 322, University of Chicago, spring 1934 -- Materials from Charles O. Hardy's course on money and banking, Economics 330, University of Chicago, 1933-1934 -- Materials from Chester Whitney Wright's courses on the economic history of the United States, University of Chicago, 1933-1934 -- Notes from Hans H. Gerth's seminar, Mass movements, Sociology 250, University of Wisconsin, 1955-1956 / Warren J. Samuels -- Notes from Edwin E. Witte's course on government and labor, Economics 249, fall 1955 / Warren J. Samuels -- Materials from John Ulric Nef's courses on economic history, Economics 221 and 322, University of Chicago, 1933-1934 -- Materials from John Ulric Nef's course, Introduction to European economic history, Economics 221, University of Chicago, fall 1933-1934
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