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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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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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New scope, new sources, new methods? : an essay on contemporary scholarship in history of economic thought journals, 2016-2017
Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Herfeld, Catherine; … - 2018
This essay gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016 and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the literature, we focus on three major aspects - the scope, the sources, and the methods - with reference to which we discuss...
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Do engineers believe in spontaneous order? : the case of Jacques Rueff
Carret, Vincent - 2023
In the 1950s, Jacques Rueff’s references to social order seem pretty clear: it is not a spontaneous phenomena. Although Rueff is generally seen as a liberal economist, this has prompted commentators to see in his approach something more artificial than Hayek’s own ideas on social order....
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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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Can we design spontaneity? : the tension between evolution and design and the defense of liberalism in Hayek
Colin-Jaege, Nathanaël - 2021
F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is famously based on the concept of spontaneous order, an order emerging from the interaction of individuals without central control and appears critical of every form of...
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Evsey Domar and Russia
Boianovsky, Mauro - 2021
The paper discusses Evsey Domar's role as a link between economics in the West and in Russia. The Russian heritage he brought with him from Harbin (Manchuria) to the US consisted of an interest in socialism and Russian history. He paid close attention to the 1947 Varga controversy in the USSR....
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