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Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th-century Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans—social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th-century...
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informed in Japan's economics and economy. This paper aims to examine how he managed to communicate with Japanese economists … modern economists and try to communicate with them on economic issues based on a common knowledge of economics. By sharing …
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honorary doctorate in economics, awarded to him by the University of Freiburg in 1964. Based on this historical account at the …
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undeservedly seldom (section 5); finally, the connector to other contemporaneous paradigms of economics and economic sociology … explicitly built into the analysis. While the project is primarily conducted as a history of economics endeavor, revisiting … development of the research program of Austrian economics, as well as at a better understanding of the increasing politico …
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This paper addresses the intellectual relationship between Max Weber and three key proponents of neoliberalism: F.A. Hayek, Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke. This relationship is contextualized in the history of German-language political economy, focusing on the nexus and proximity between early...
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Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention … between Weber and Wieser. Their projects of "Social Economics" are studied comparatively, with a special focus on the concepts … important insights for the development of "Social Economics" and of the early economics of the Austrian School. Second, this …
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My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901−1975) to American economics. The … source for the paper. Through Lutz's case, I demonstrate the growing gulf between German and Anglo-Saxon economics during the … late 1930s. In his native Germany, Lutz was trained in methodologically and institutionally focused economics, which …
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history of their discipline. This paper traces the effects of positivism in economics, then argues that the history of … economics is a critical component of both the undergraduate teaching and the graduate training of economists, and that as such …, it should be reintroduced into the economics curriculum. It concludes by documenting some recent hopeful signs of change. …
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role of theory in economics and in recent economic events is considered in light of two recen t books: the sociologist … Economics. …
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, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson and How Reason … economics. The essay finally reflects on the challenges that these issues present for historians of recent economics. …
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