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Economic analysis of knowledge : the history of thought and the central themes
Leppälä, Samuli - 2012
Following the development of knowledge economies, there has been a rapid expansion of economic analysis of knowledge, both in the context of technological knowledge in particular and the decision theory in general. This paper surveys this literature by identifying the main themes and...
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"The eyes and ears of the agricultural markets" : a history of information in interwar agricultural economics
Delcey, Thomas; Noblet, Guillaume - 2021
of information. Concerned with improving the circulation of information on agricultural markets, agricultural economists … analyzed the relationship between agents’ information and the behavior of prices on agricultural commodity exchanges, thus … agricultural market reform led by the U.S. administration to improve the production and diffusion of economic information. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648447
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The abandoned übervater : Max Weber and the neoliberals
Kolev, Stefan - 2018
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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Practices of using interviews in history of contemporary economics : a brief survey
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This paper discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics - i.e., either the use of someone else's interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work.
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Interviews: some methodological and historiographical issues of oral sources
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This chapter discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics - i.e., either the use of someone else’s interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work. It draws on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810041
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Estimating rationality in economics : a history of statistical methods in experimental economics
Vallois, Nicolas; Jullien, Dorian - 2018
Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...
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New perspectives on the Great Depression : a review essay
Tavlas, George S. - 2016
The Great Depression was the most devastating and destructive economic event to afflict the global economy since the beginning of the twentieth century. What, then, were the origins of the Great Depression and what have we learned about the appropriate policy responses to economic depressions...
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The Road to Serfdom after 75 years
Caldwell, Bruce - 2019
F. A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, so 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the event. The paper traces how Hayek came to write the book, who his opponents were, and how the book got interpreted by both friends and critics after its publication. Because the book is more typically...
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Some notes on the life of a book
Mata, Tiago - 2021
In 2022, Cambridge University Press is publishing a 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. There will be two afterwords, preceded with this introduction: You have before you CUP’s 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s Some...
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