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Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (1931-2021) : a Cambridge economist from Down Under

Boianovsky, Mauro - 2022

Australian economist educated and active in the Cambridge UK tradition. His main contributions – to the Cambridge capital debates …

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Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? : afterword two on The Man

Cohen, Avi Jonathan - 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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Karl Brunner's philosophy of science : macroeconomics through the lens of logical empiricism

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2018

Best known as a monetary economist and prominent proponent of monetarism, Karl Brunner was deeply knowledgeable about … the philosophy of science and attempted to explicitly integrate logical empiricist thinking, derived in some measure from … his engagement with the work of the philosopher Hans Reichenbach, into his economics. His philosophical commitments are …

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"Writing history as a way of life" : the life and work of Margaret Garritsen de Vries

Laskaridis, Christina - 2022

history will travel through. An operational economist during the first part of her career, her turn to history was the avenue … prestigious awards and memorial funds set up in her name. The primary aim of this paper is to piece together a brief biography …. Studying the life of a woman economist turned historian in an international organization brings to light her contribution as an …

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Women and economics : new historical perspectives

Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Forget, Evelyn L.; … - 2022

This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on “Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives.” We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the...

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A student's plea to professor North : an episode in academic politics and interdisciplinarity in the Reagan years

Almeida, Rafael Galvão de - 2021

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Who runs the AEA?

Hoover, Kevin D.; Svorenčík, Andrej - 2020 - Version, 27 November 2020

The leadership structure of the American Economics Association is documented using a biographical database covering every officer and losing candidate for AEA offices from 1950 to 2019. The analysis focuses on institutional affiliations by education and employment. The structure is strongly...

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Paul Samuelson's historiography : more wag than whig

Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2015

In this review essay of Medema's and Waterman's collection of some of Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written "Whig History" is spurious. Moreover the author argues that Samuelson's own writings on modern economics are , whether...

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Observing shocks

Duarte, Pedro Garcia; Hoover, Kevin D. - 2011

Shock is a term of art that pervades modern economics appearing in nearly a quarter of all journal articles in economics and in nearly half in macroeconomics. Surprisingly, its rise as an essential element in the vocabulary of economists can be dated only to the early 1970s. The paper traces the...

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First principles, fallibilism, and economics

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017 - Revised, 1 January 2017

The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the classical and neoclassical periods. First principles are most clearly displayed in pure deductive systems. The tension between first principles as the basis for deductivist...

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