This essay addresses issues related to the History of Economic Thought, Comparative Economic Analysis, and Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands...

Behind a consumer’s decision to purchase a product/service there is always a reason or a complex of reasons, and behind rejecting a product/service there is always the consumer’s conclusion that, by its competences, that respective product/service will not fulfil that respective need at the...

The impact of unions on productivity has been an important area of debate in industrial relations and economics. The theoretical and empirical literature has produced conflicting results. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis is used to quantify the association between unions...

Section 2 of this paper suggests that economics has long sought to colonise other social sciences. It has, however, only achived limites success because of its alien methods and its need to take the social as given. Section 3 argues that there is now a newer version of economic imperialism...

L'etape preliminaire a toute recherche consiste a examiner la litterature portant sur son objet d'etude. Une des formes que ce processus peut prendre consiste a generaliser les resultats d'etudes singulieres, c'est-a-dire realiser une revue integrative de la litterature. Cette demarche de...

Quantitative estimates of the impacts of climate change on economic outcomes are important for public policy. We show that the vast majority of estimates fail to account for well-established uncertainty in future temperature and rainfall changes, leading to potentially misleading projections. We...

Why had so few economists foreseen the crisis? The main reason is that economics has turned into a branch of applied mathematics, detached from real world institutions. In a monetary economy of production, real factors and financial factors are intertwined, and crisis is consequently no mere...

The theme of academic anti-Semitism has been much discussed recently in histories of the interwar period of the University of Vienna, in particular its Faculty of Law and Policy Sciences. This paper complements these studies by focusing in this regard on the economics chairs at this faculty and,...

The Traverse refers to the movement of the economy outside equilibrium. It requires a consideration of how an economy may achieve equilibrium, and how it may navigate towards a new one if conditions change. Analysis of these themes, from the classical economists onwards, leads to the conclusion...

In this Introduction, we discuss the main themes of post-Keynesian economics, and the manner in which they are dealt with by the contributors to the Handbook. In particular, the important aspects of post-Keynesian analysis are identified, and their main critiques of mainstream theory are...