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Enemigos del comercio: Un análisis de las ideas económicas en la novela decadente/Enemies of Commerce: Economic Ideas in the Decadent Novel

CABRILLO, FRANCISCO - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 32 (2014) Enero, pp. 181-200

En las dos décadas finales del siglo XIX surgió la novela decadente como una oposición al realismo y al naturalismo, las corrientes dominantes hasta aquel momento. Los decadentes eran críticos de la industrialización, del mundo financiero y de la economía de mercado en general. Los...

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The When, the How and the Why of Mathematical Expression in the History of Economic Analysis

Mirowski, Philip - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 5 (1991) 1, pp. 145-157

In writings about the history of the use of mathematical expression in economics, there seems to be a conviction that the movement towards its current flowering was cumulative, inevitable, and indeed, natural. While, such notions are widely held among practicing economists, I want to argue that...

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Retrospectives: Fixed Capital, Railroad Economics and the Critique of the Market

Perelman, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (1994) 3, pp. 189-195

Where average fixed costs are large compared to marginal costs, competition will drive industry into bankruptcy. During the last century, the chaos that competition created within the railroad industry caused many prominent U.S. economists to reject the market in favor of trusts, cartels, and...

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The Sociological School of Italian Science of Finance: A Retrospective View

Majo, Antonio Di - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 1

A recent book by McLure analyses Italian economic thought in the early 20th century with breference to the school of fiscal sociology, consisting of a number of Italian economists who shared the views of Vilfredo Pareto on public finance. These Italian economists sought ways to explain choices...

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Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy

May, Ann Mari; Dimand, Robert W. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (2009) 3, pp. 189-204

The papers from the first year of the American Economic Review are included in the Archives of the American Economic Association. While researching the early years of the AEA, Ann Mari May came across a folder marked "Controversies, Criticisms, etc."-which stood out in the midst of a review of...

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La Rerum Novarum dalla fine del XIX all'inizio del XXI secolo

Costa, Giacomo - In: STUDI ECONOMICI LXV (2010) 100, pp. 41-63

To the contemporary historian, Rerum Novarum is a socio-political event. I will take it at its word and study it for its content rather than its impact. If the Church failed to return to the centre of European affairs, this must be due to its failure to suggest a constructive approach to...

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I discovered the peso problem: Irving Fisher and the UIP puzzle

Lothian, James R.; Pownall, Rachel A.J.; Koedijk, Kees G. - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 38 (2013) C, pp. 5-17

Irving Fisher was the first economist to posit what has come to be known as uncovered interest parity relation. He was also the first to offer a peso-problem type explanation for important episodes in which it was violated. After reviewing his theoretical and empirical work on this subject, we...

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Reforming China's Monetary Policy Framework to Meet Domestic Objectives

Conway, Paul; Herd, Richard; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

control over money market interest rates. With money market conditions increasingly influencing effective commercial lending …

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„Good money” – alluring illusion, or antietatist diagnosis of the financial crisis?

Pachev, Plamen - In: Economic Thought journal (2014) 2, pp. 131-146

This is a case study of a „classical” issue on the interpretation of money as a special kind of commodity, „balancing … private market alternative to the „state” money „imposed” by the administration. The second line covers the issue whether and … how much the „demonetization” of the precious metals in the 1970-ies as a „classical” symbol of money under the conditions …

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Harry S Truman:The Economics of a Populist President

Canterbery, E Ray - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Harry S Truman is best remembered as the President who witnessed the swift arrival of the Cold War in the tumultuous years after World War Two. Little however has been written to show that he was also the populist President who set the political economic course for the United States to win it...

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