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Between Pigou and Keynes : champernowne on employment and expectations
Boianovsky, Mauro - 2017
The paper investigates Champernowne's 1936 attempt to sort out the debate between Pigou (1933) and Keynes (1936) about … employment determination. Champernowne agreed with Keynes that workers can only bargain for a money-wage, but argued that, to the …
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The early John Maynard Keynes : an intellectualist becomes disappointed
Marouzi, Soroush - 2023
John Maynard Keynes's philosophical outlook evolved from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 up until the publication … of his A Treatise on Probability in 1921. The evolution of Keynes's philosophical perspectives was closely intertwined … counted Keynes among its members. These debates were spurred by the outbreak of the Great War and the presentation of Clive …
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Modern political economy : a brief history and some applications
Jakee, Keith - 2021
This article--designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered--is divided into three main sections, "historical origins," the "modern founders of MPE," and a brief description of some "current issues" studied by public...
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Ricardian inference : Charles S. Peirce, economics, and scientific method
Hoover, Kevin D.; Wible, James R. - 2017 - Revised, 10 July 2017
Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed...
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Paul Samuelson, Robert. V. Roosa, and the economics of credit rationing
Acosta, Juan C.A. - 2016
This paper discusses the role played by NY Fed economist Robert Roosa and Paul Samuelson in the emergence of the literature on credit rationing at the beginning of the 1950s. I argue that, contrary to the story one can find in the technical surveys, an intermediate step between Roosa and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609898
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"I had always operated on the outside" : a conversation with E. Roy Weintraub on the history of economics, science studies and academic morals
Giraud, Yann - 2019
A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...
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Under risk, over time, regarding other people : language and rationality within three dimensions
Jullien, Dorian - 2018
This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic behaviors within three dimensions: under risk, over time and regarding other people. A new perspective on two underlying methodological issues, i.e., interdisciplinarity and...
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Becoming applied : the transformation of economics after 1970
Backhouse, Roger; Cherrier, Béatrice - 2015 - Version 1.12
This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners, it is suggested that the discipline became more...
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How mathematical economics became (simply) economics : the mathematical training of economists during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in the United States
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 2020
Before the use of mathematics in economics was generalized, mathematical and nonmathematically trained economist lived together. This paper studies this period of cohabitation. By focusing on the communication challenges between these two groups during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a watershed...
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Douglass North as a political economist
Almeida, Rafael Galvão de - 2019
This article explores Douglass North’s intellectual development as a political economist and an interdisciplinary researcher. Although he was an important figure during the cliometrics revolution, he later grew dissatisfied with the approach and went on to study institutions, helping to...
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