The Foundations of Price Theory
In: History of political economy, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 168-173
ISSN: 1527-1919
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In: History of political economy, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 168-173
ISSN: 1527-1919
In: Journal of the history of economic thought, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 423-426
ISSN: 1469-9656
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 60, Heft 2, S. 557-563
ISSN: 1536-7150
Did George alienate many by presenting his reform program as the institution of a new form of restricted land possession rather than as the retention of traditional ownership with a substantial land tax imposed? It seems doubtful, yet the distinction merits further exploration and the peculiar and hard‐to‐implement nature of the tax and the difficulty of reconciling it with George's distrust of government needs to be stressed. Ideally, George might have preferred complete government ownership of land but his policy proposals were pragmatically adapted to the realities of his own society. The extent of the egalitarianism and aid to the landless implied in his program is questioned.
In: Journal of the history of economic thought, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 95-98
ISSN: 1469-9656
In: Journal of the history of economic thought, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 311-327
ISSN: 1469-9656
The invitation to reflect for a wide audience upon my professional life and work is simultaneously flattering, daunting and dismaying: daunting because the shield of privacy normally surrounding personal and family matters can hardly avoid being breached; dismaying because the called-for reimmersion in one's past so strongly evokes unfulfilled hopes and ambitions. Not, I should add, that I have any cause for complaints. My life has been fortunate and fulfilling, yet with the clarity of hindsight, roads not taken become visible more clearly than they were when choices were made.
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 107, Heft 440, S. 247-248
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: History of political economy, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 267-268
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 97, Heft 2, S. 480-496
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Journal of political economy, Band 97, Heft 2, S. 480
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In: The History of Economics Society bulletin: HESB, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 60-60
ISSN: 1469-9656
In: History of political economy, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 333-335
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In: The History of Economics Society bulletin: HESB, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 9-15
ISSN: 1469-9656
The body of enquiry known as economics grew out of the practical needs of economic life and statesmanship, and also out of philosophical speculation on the nature of man and society. Adam Smith reflects both aspects, but I would locate him predominantly in the philosophical wing. When he switched from considering the theory of moral sentiments to dealing with the causes of the wealth of nations, I don't believe that he saw himself as engaging in a fundamentally different mode of enquiry. He was, of course, concerned with practical questions--of ethical behaviour in the one case and of economic policy in the other--but discussion of both was from a broad philosophic viewpoint. Ricardo, on the other hand, seems to me to exemplify, and at a high level, someone who falls predominatly in the other wing. Although his thought was abstract, it was much more an attempt to deal pragmatically with important issues of practice than it was an attempt, in the philosophical tradition, to understand the general nature of men's interaction in society. Indeed, utilitarianism by then offered a strictly philosophic rationale for concern with practice (albeit a piggish one in some eyes) which did much to confound and confuse the dual origins of economics. Mill and Sidgwick, among others, maintained the tradition of a close connection between philosophical and economic enquiry, within the framework of a broadened utilitarianism, and the continuing affinity of the two disciplines has been exemplified more recently in the work of writers such as Rawls and Sen, not to mention the recent upsurge in discussion of economic methodology.
In: History of political economy, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 149-151
ISSN: 1527-1919
In: Journal of political economy, Band 90, Heft 2, S. 333-355
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: The journal of economic history, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 522-523
ISSN: 1471-6372