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Supplement 2014, Volume 46, Issue 5
- 81-108 The Early Years of the MIT PhD Program in Industrial Economics
by Pedro Garcia Duarte - 109-133 MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography
by Andrej SvorenÄ Ãk - 134-152 Negotiating the “Middle-of-the-Road†Position: Paul Samuelson, MIT, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55
by Yann Giraud - 153-174 Serving the Institute and the Discipline: The Changing Profile of Economics at MIT as Viewed from Textbooks
by Pedro Teixeira - 177-197 MIT and Money
by Perry Mehrling - 198-228 In the Kingdom of Solovia: The Rise of Growth Economics at MIT, 1956-70
by Mauro Boianovsky & Kevin D. Hoover - 229-251 From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multipurpose Design
by Verena Halsmayer - 295-314 Decisions and Dynamics: Postwar Theoretical Problems and the MIT Style of Economics
by William Thomas - 317-336 The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department’s PhD Program: Black Americans at MIT
by William Darity Jr. & Arden Kreeger - 337-350 The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT
by Peter Temin - 351-374 On Kindleberger and Hegemony: From Berlin to MIT and Back
by Stephen Meardon
Winter 2014, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 545-571 Truly Handmaidens to Policy? Evaluating Agricultural Economists’ Claim to a Distinct Tradition of Applied Economics
by Jonathan S. Franklin - 573-608 Blanco White, Spanish America, and Economic Affairs: The Slave Trade and Colonial Trade
by Luis Perdices de Blas & Jose Luis Ramos-Gorostiza - 609-640 Cantillon on Profit and Interest: New Insights from Other Versions of His Writings
by Richard van den Berg - 641-675 “Self-Interest Ennobled†: The Family in German Political Economy
by Marynel Ryan Van Zee - 641-675 “Self-Interest Ennobled†: The Family in German Political Economy
by Marynel Ryan Van Zee - 677-693 Reference-Dependence and Marginal Utility: Alt, Samuelson, and Bernardelli
by Marek Hudik
Fall 2014, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 357-386 The Sanguine Science: The Historical Contexts of A. C. Pigou's Welfare Economics
by Norikazu Takami - 387-407 On Aristotle's Natural Limit
by C. Tyler DesRoches - 408-433 Keynes, Lerner, and the Question of Public Debt
by Tony Aspromourgos - 435-461 General Equilibrium Theory behind the Iron Curtain: The Case of Victor Polterovich
by Ivan Boldyrev & Olessia Kirtchik - 463-490 The Second Jansenism and the Rise of French Eighteenth-Century Political Economy
by Arnaud Orain - 491-523 William Blake on the Effects of Government Fiscal Policy on Activity and Prices
by Matthew Smith - 525-535 Henry Simons's Death
by Robert Van Horn
Summer 2014, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 177-210 The Puzzle of Metallism: Searching for the Nature of Money
by Filippo Cesarano - 211-229 Haavelmo’s Epistemology for an Inexact Science
by Marcel Boumans - 231-246 J. S. Mill and the Value of Utility
by Shiri Cohen Kaminitz - 247-264 Social Needs, Social Goods, and Human Associations in the Second Edition of Carl Menger’s Principles
by Giandomenica Becchio - 265-280 The Role of Intelligence, Institutions, and Place in Carlo Cattaneo's Economics
by Tiziano Raffaelli - 281-306 What Is a Just Society? The Answer according to the Socialistes Fraternitaires Louis Blanc, Constantin Pecqueur, and François Vidal
by Ludovic Frobert - 307-331 Guicciardini’s La Decima scalata: The First Treatise on Progressive Taxation
by Nikola Regent - 333-338 An Unpublished Letter from James Mill to Jean-Baptiste Say
by Victor Bianchini & Nicolas Rieucau
Spring 2014, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-32 Progressivism and Academic Public Finance, 1880 to 1930
by Marianne Johnson - 33-54 A Tale of Two Destinies: Georgescu-Roegen on Gossen
by Paola Tubaro - 55-83 Adam Smith’s “Optimistic Deism,†the Invisible Hand of Providence, and the Unhappiness of Nations
by Terry Peach - 85-116 Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory
by D. Wade Hands - 117-148 Are There Important Differences between Classical and Twenty-First-Century Monetary Theories? Did the Keynesian and Monetarist Revolutions Matter?
by John H. Wood - 149-166 Rigor versus Relevance in Economic Theory: A Plea for a Different Methodological Perspective
by Andrea Salanti
Supplement 2013, Volume 45, Issue 5
- 1-19 Cultures of Expertise and the Public Interventions of Economists
by Tiago Mata & Steven G. Medema - 20-37 "Perhaps I'm a Don Quixote but I'm Trying to Be a Paul Revere": Irving Fisher as a Public Intellectual
by Robert W. Dimand - 38-67 Observers, Commentators, and Persuaders: British Interwar Economists as Public Intellectuals
by Chris Godden - 68-91 Inside Out: Keynes's Use of the Public Sphere
by Roger E. Backhouse & Bradley W. Bateman - 92-113 Walter Lippmann: The Making of a Public Economist
by Craufurd Goodwin - 114-136 Lionel Robbins: Political Economist
by Susan Howson - 137-165 Henry Hazlitt as an Intellectual Middleman of "Orthodox Economics"
by Peter Boettke & Liya Palagashvili - 166-190 Federal Reserve Bank Presidents as Pubilc Intellectuals
by Rob Roy McGregor & Warren Young - 191-219 Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas
by Angus Burgin - 220-253 Economic Indicators as Public Interventions
by Gil Eyal & Moran Levy - 254-278 Becker and Posner: Freedom of Speech and Public Intellectualship
by Jean-Baptiste Fleury & Alain Marciano - 279-311 Private Intellectuals and Public Perplexity: The Economics Profession and the Economic Crisis
by Philip Mirowski & Edward Nik-Khah
Winter 2013, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 567-612 Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1910-45)
by Loic Charles & Yann Giraud - 613-622 Abba Lerner and the Political Economy of Bureaucracy and Organizations
by Daniel L. Cuda - 623-645 Design for a Streamlined War Economy
by Abba P. Lerner - 647-691 Friedrich List and the Economic Fate of Tropical Countries
by Mauro Boianovsky - 693-746 Tariffs and Trusts, Profiteers and Middlemen: Popular Explanations for the High Cost of Living, 1897-1920
by Mark Aldrich
Fall 2013, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 373-414 Were Jevons, Menger, and Walras Really Cardinalists? On the Notion of Measurement in Utility Theory, Psychology, Mathematics, and Other Disciplines, 1870-1910
by Ivan Moscati - 415-442 Beggars: Jeremy Bentham versus William Wordsworth
by James P. Henderson - 443-474 The Emergence of Econophysics: A New Approach in Modern Financial Theory
by Franck Jovanovic & Christophe Schinckus - 475-504 The Puzzle of Marx's Missing "Results": A Tale of Two Theories
by Gilbert L. Skillman - 505-522 Adam Smith's "Collateral" Inquiry: Fashion and Morality in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations"
by Craig Smith - 523-548 The Discovery of the Faustmann Formula in Natural Resource Economics
by Esa-Jussi Viitala
Summer 2013, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 187-221 "Marvellous Intellectual Feasts": Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933-48
by Barbara Ingham & Paul Mosley - 223-254 Why Market Failures Are Not a Problem: James Buchanan on Market Imperfections, Voluntary Cooperation, and Externalities
by Alain Marciano - 255-285 Assessments of A. C. Pigou's Fellowship Theses
by Michael McLure - 287-309 Utilitarianism and Luck
by Joseph Persky - 311-343 From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall
by Simon Cook
Spring 2013, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-38 Modigliani's and Simon's Early Contributions to Uncertainty (1952-61)
by Antonella Rancan - 39-59 Belling the Cat: Eli F. Heckscher on the Gold Standard as a Disciplinary Device
by Klas Fregert - 61-97 George Pryme, Dugald Stewart, and Political Economy at Cambridge
by Shin Kubo - 99-121 Tax Prices in a Democratic Polity: The Continuing Relevance of Antonio de Viti de Marco
by Giuseppe Eusepi & Richard E. Wagner - 123-148 The Double Taxation of Savings: The Italian Debate Revisited
by Amedeo Fossati - 149-175 The Classical Notion of Competition Revisited
by Neri Salvadori & Rodolfo Signorino
Supplement 2012, Volume 44, Issue 5
- 1-24 Observation and Observing in Economics
by Harro Maas & Mary S. Morgan - 27-45 Cunning Observation: US Agricultural Statistics in the Time of Laissez-Faire
by Emmanuel Didier - 46-70 Economic Observation and Measurement in Russia before 1917: Surveying Typicalities and Sampling Totalities
by Vincent Barnett - 71-89 The Economist as Surveyor: Physiocracy in the Fields
by Loïc Charles & Christine There - 93-113 Making Variety Simple: Agricultural Economists in Southern Italy, 1906-9
by Federico D'Onofrio - 114-136 Observations in a Hostile Environment: Morgenstern on the Accuracy of Economic Observations
by Marcel Boumans - 137-159 Observing Attitudes, Intentions, and Expectations (1945–73)
by José M. Edwards - 160-182 Navigating the Shoals of Self-Reporting: Data Collection in US Expenditure Surveys since 1920
by Thomas A. Stapleford - 185-205 Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics: 1900-1930
by Malcolm Rutherford - 206-225 Observation through Fiction: Frank Norris and E. M.Forster
by Craufurd D. Goodwin - 226-249 Observing Shocks
by Pedro Garcia Duarte & Kevin D. Hoover
Winter 2012, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 567-582 Mark Blaug, 1927-2011
by Roger E. Backhouse - 583-593 Andrew Skinner, 1935-2011
by Sheila C. Dow - 595-618 The Banking School and the Law of Reflux in General
by Laurent Le Maux - 619-641 Enlightened Reforms and Economic Discourse in the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire (1750-1808)
by Jose Luis Cardoso & Alexandre Mendes Cunha - 643-661 The Discovery of the Isoquant
by Peter Lloyd - 663-689 On Adam Smith's Ambiguities on Value and Wealth
by Ferdinando Meacci
Fall 2012, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 389-411 Warren Samuels: A Personal Reminiscence
by Steven G. Medema - 413-449 Gerard Debreu's Secrecy: His Life in order and Silence
by Till Dueppe - 451-469 Credit Where Credit Is Due: Henry Thornton and the Evolution of the Theory of Fiduciary Money
by Neil T. Skaggs - 471-492 Adam Smith's "Science of Human Nature"
by Christopher J. Berry - 493-504 The Intellectual Legacy of Jules Dupuit: A Review Essay
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr. & Robert F. Hebert - 505-540 An Appreciation of Selig Perlman's A Theory of the Labor Movement
by Vibha Kapuria-Foreman & Charles R. McCann Jr.
Summer 2012, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 195-233 Beyond Altruism? Economics and the Minimization of Unselfish Behavior, 1975-93
by Philippe Fontaine - 235-276 Don Patinkin's PhD Dissertation as the Prehistory of Disequilibrium Theories
by Goulven Rubin - 277-330 Celso Furtado and the Structuralist-Monetarist Debate on Economic Stabilization in Latin America
by Mauro Boianovsky - 331-339 Alfred Marshall's Reported Birthplace: Evidence from the Censuses
by Stephen Littlechild - 341-364 How Keynesian Economics Came to China
by Paul B. Trescott
Spring 2012, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-40 Wandering through the Borderlands of the Social Sciences: Gary Becker's Economics of Discrimination
by Jean-Baptiste Fleury - 41-67 Keynesian Historiography and the Anti-Semitism Question
by E. Roy Weintraub - 69-95 Dupuit and Walras on the Natural Monopoly in Transport Industries: What They Really Wrote and Meant
by Guy Numa - 97-111 Dupuit and the Railroads
by Robert B. Ekelund & Robert F. Hebert - 113-155 Indifference Curves and the Ordinalist Revolution
by Jean-Sebastien Lenfant - 157-180 Lowndes and Locke on the Value of Money
by Kepa Ormazabal
Supplement 2011, Volume 43, Issue 5
- 1-4 Foreword
by Mary S. Morgan - 5-31 A History of the Histories of Econometrics
by Marcel Boumans & Ariane Dupont-Kieffer - 35-56 Econometrics and Psychometrics: Rivers out of Biometry
by John Aldrich - 57-85 The Fellowship of Econometrics: Selection and Diverging Views in the Province of Mathematical Economics, from the 1930s to the 1950s
by Francisco Louçã & Sofia Terlica - 86-105 Econometrics and the Computer: Love or a Marriage of Convenience?
by Charles G. Renfro - 109-139 Ragnar Frisch and the Probability Approach
by Olav Bjerkholt & Ariane Dupont-Kieffer - 140-165 Ta-Chung Liu's Exploratory Econometrics
by Hsiang-Ke Chao & Chao-Hsi Huang - 166-187 Tobin as an Econometrician
by Robert W. Dimand - 188-210 A History of Japanese Developments in Econometrics
by Aiko Ikeo - 211-232 Corrado Gini (1884–1965): The Leading Figure of the Italian Group in the Econometric Society
by Daniela Parisi - 235-257 The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression and Its Adoption by Agricultural Economists
by Jeff E. Biddle - 258-282 The Early Years of Panel Data Econometrics
by Ariane Dupont-Kieffer & Alain Pirotte - 283-308 The Phillips Curve from the Perspective of the History of Econometrics
by Duo Qin - 309-328 Reconceiving Quality: Political Economy and the Rise of Hedonic Price Indexes
by Thomas A. Stapleford
Winter 2011, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 625-648 Conflict as a "Normal Economic Activity": The Contribution of Jack Hirshleifer, 1925-2005
by Teresa Tomas Rangil - 649-681 What to Conclude from Psychological Experiments: The Contrasting Cases of Experimental and Behavioral Economics
by Floris Heukelom - 683-698 "Money Is a Sterile Thing": Martin Luther on the Immorality of Usury Reconsidered
by John D. Singleton - 699-742 Hayek's Business Cycle Theory during the 1930s: A Critical Account of Its Development
by Constantinos Repapis - 743-763 Comparative Advantage and the Labor Theory of Value
by Jorge Morales Meoqui
Fall 2011, Volume 43, Issue 3
- 429-469 Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy: Adversaries or Allies?
by Thomas C. Leonard - 471-512 Hostage to Fortune: Edward Chamberlin and the Reception of The Theory of Monopolistic Competition
by Nahid Aslanbeigui & Guy Oakes - 513-536 Imperfect Competition and the Trade Cycle: Aborted Guidelines from the Late 1930s
by Claude d'Aspremont & Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira & Louis-André Gérard-Varet - 537-551 The Offer-Curve Approach to Labor Market Analysis: From Marshall-Pigou over Robbins and Buchanan into Oblivion?
by Gerhard Michael Ambrosi - 553-589 Newtonian Science, Commercial Republicanism, and the Cult of Great Men in La Beaumelle's Pensées (1752)
by Mircea Platon - 591-605 On Blaug Ten Years Later
by Pierangelo Garegnani - 607-616 In Favor of Rigor and Relevance: A Reply to Mark Blaug
by Heinz D. Kurz & Neri Salvadori
Summer 2011, Volume 43, Issue 2
- 247-255 Craufurd Goodwin and History of Political Economy: A Double Anniversary
by Kevin D. Hoover - 257-271 Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith
by Amartya Sen - 275-294 The Political Economy of Art: Ruskin and Contemporary Cultural Economics
by David Throsby - 295-302 Romantic versus Real-World Art-Making and Valuation
by Neil De Marchi - 303-308 Economics and Aesthetics in Ruskin and Neoclassicism
by Robert Leonard - 309-314 John Ruskin: Ethics in Economics
by Annabel Wharton - 317-337 Exchange, Specialization, and Property as a Discovery Process
by Vernon L. Smith - 339-345 Consumer Sovereignty in the History of Environmental Economics
by H. Spencer Banzhaf - 347-352 Inventing Price Systems and Substitutes for Them
by V. Kerry Smith - 353-360 What Begat Property?
by Jonathan B. Wiener - 363-368 The Uses and Misuses of Economics in Daily Journalism
by Louis Uchitelle - 369-373 The Great Recession as a Great Enlightener
by William J. Barber - 375-378 When a Crisis in Journalism Meets an Economy in Crisis
by Philip Bennett - 379-385 Fractals in Economic Journalism
by Tiago Mata - 389-411 “In a Space of Questions†: A Reflection on Religion and Economics at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
by Bradley W. Bateman - 413-415 Economics and Antagonisms
by Stanley Hauerwas - 417-422 Whose Economics? Which Religion? Comments on Brad Bateman's “In a Space of Questionsâ€
by Kelly Johnson - 423-428 The Entwinement of Religion and Economics: Comments on Bradley Bateman's “In a Space of Questionsâ€
by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Spring 2011, Volume 43, Issue 1
- 1-23 Intellectual Communities in the History of Economics
by Evelyn L. Forget & Craufurd D. Goodwin - 25-58 From Versailles to Paris: The Creative Communities of the Physiocratic Movement
by Loïc Charles & Christine Théré - 59-82 The Bloomsbury Group as Creative Community
by Craufurd D. Goodwin - 83-130 The Collapse of Interwar Vienna: Oskar Morgenstern's Community, 1925–50
by Robert Leonard - 131-159 A 1930s North American Creative Community: The Harvard “Pareto Circleâ€
by Annie L. Cot - 161-198 Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution: A Research School Analysis
by Robert A. Cord - 199-223 A Tale of Two Communities: Fighting Poverty in the Great Society (1964–68)
by Evelyn L. Forget - 225-246 Public Choice and the Notion of Creative Communities
by Steven G. Medema
Supplement 2010, Volume 42, Issue 5
- 1-21 Introduction: History of Economics as History of Social Science
by Roger E. Backhouse & Philippe Fontaine - 25-52 Psychiatry and the Social Sciences, 1940–2009
by Andrew Scull - 53-76 Poverty in Cold War America: A Problem That Has No Name? The Invisible Network of Poverty Experts in the 1950s and 1960s
by Romain Huret - 77-104 The Enemy Within: Academic Freedom in 1960s and 1970s American Social Sciences
by Tiago Mata - 105-130 Rebellions across the (Rice) Fields: Social Scientists and Indochina, 1965–1975
by Teresa Tomás Rangil - 133-164 Tool Shock: Technique and Epistemology in the Postwar Social Sciences
by Joel Isaac - 165-195 Ground between Two Stones: Melville Herskovits and the Fate of Economic Anthropology
by Heath Pearson - 199-233 Marginal to the Revolution: The Curious Relationship between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
by Jefferson Pooley & Mark Solovey - 234-260 The Price of Success: Economic Sovietology, Development, and the Costs of Interdisciplinarity
by David C. Engerman - 261-287 Specializing in Interdisciplinarity: The Committee on Social Thought as the University of Chicago's Antidote to Compartmentalization in the Social Sciences
by Ross B. Emmett - 291-314 Economics and Sociology: From Complementary to Competing Perspectives
by Daniel Geary - 315-342 Drawing New Lines: Economists and Other Social Scientists on Society in the 1960s
by Jean-Baptiste Fleury - 343-351 Conclusions: The Identity of Economics—Image and Reality
by Roger E. Backhouse & Philippe Fontaine
Winter 2010, Volume 42, Issue 4
- 601-630 Harry Aaron Director: The Coming of Age of a Reformer Skeptic (1914–24)
by Robert Van Horn - 631-652 The Cambridge Post-Keynesians: An Outsider's Insider View
by Christopher Bliss - 653-677 “At Best an Echo†: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Translation Strategies in the History of Economics
by Evelyn L. Forget - 679-721 Veblen's Apprenticeship: On the Translation of Gustav Cohn's System der Finanzwissenschaft
by Charles Camic - 723-746 Thomas Chalmers: The Market, Moral Conduct, and Social Order
by William Dixon & David Wilson - 747-772 Plato's Supposed Defense of the Division of Labor: A Reexamination of the Role of Job Specialization in the Republic
by Daniel Silvermintz
Fall 2010, Volume 42, Issue 3
- 403-424 Measuring “The Happiness of Nations†: The Conundrum of Adam Smith's “Real Measure of Exchangeable Valueâ€
by Terry Peach - 425-441 The Moralizing Role of Distance in Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments as Possible Praise of Commerce
by Maria Pia Paganelli - 443-467 Rationalizing Human Organization in an Uncertain World: Jacob Marschak, from Ukrainian Prisons to Behavioral Science Laboratories
by Béatrice Cherrier - 469-481 Jens Warming on Open Access, the Pigovian Tax, and Property Rights
by Håkan Eggert - 483-494 “The Danish Right to Eel Weir,†by Jens Warming
by HÃ¥kan Eggert - 495-519 Economics and Ethics: Juan de Lugo's Theory of the Just Price, or the Responsibility of Living in Society
by Fabio Monsalve - 521-546 Economics as Plausible Conjecture
by Michael H. Turk - 547-571 On the Similarities between the 1932 Harvard Memorandum and the Chicago Antidepression Recommendations
by James C. W. Ahiakpor - 573-592 Harvard, the Chicago Tradition, and the Quantity Theory: A Reply to James Ahiakpor
by David Laidler & Roger Sandilands
Summer 2010, Volume 42, Issue 2
- 201-219 A Tale of Two Cities
by Perry Mehrling - 221-266 A View from the Tropics: Celso Furtado and the Theory of Economic Development in the 1950s
by Mauro Boianovsky - 267-295 John R. Commons, Wesley N. Hohfeld, and the Origins of Transactional Economics
by Luca Fiorito - 297-322 The Background to Hawtrey's Ethics
by David Andrews - 323-360 Counteracting Counterfeiting? Bodin, Mariana, and Locke on False Money as a Multidimensional Issue
by Ludovic Desmedt & Jérôme Blanc - 361-382 Deepening the Irony of Utopia: An Economic Perspective
by Samuel Bostaph
Spring 2010, Volume 42, Issue 1
- 1-17 R. D. Collison Black, 1922–2008: A Personal Tribute
by Donald Winch - 19-20 Minisymposium on the History of Econometrics: Introduction
by Kevin D. Hoover - 21-73 Ragnar Frisch's Conception of Econometrics
by Olav Bjerkholt & Ariane Dupont - 75-110 The Problem of Passive Observation
by Marcel Boumans - 111-154 The Econometricians' Statisticians, 1895–1945
by John Aldrich - 155-192 Interdependence, the Invisible Hand, and Equilibrium in Adam Smith
by Amos Witztum