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On Latsis's Method and Appraisal in Economics: A Review Essay.
Robbins, Lionel - In: Journal of Economic Literature 17 (1979) 3, pp. 996-1004
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Correspondencia entre John Maurice Clark y Lionel Robbins
Clark, John Maurice; Robbins, Lionel - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 7 (2005) July-December, pp. 267-277
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Private Spending Money for Productive Investment / Spending and Saving Public Works from Rates
MacGregor, D. H.; Pigou, A. C.; Keynes, J. M.; Layton, … - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 27 (2011) Fall 2011, pp. 39-42
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Utilitarianism and the role of utility in Adam Smith
Witztum, Amos; Young, Jeffrey T. - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 20 (2013) 4, pp. 572-602
<title>Abstract</title> In this paper we confront attempts to bring Smith closer to utilitarianism. We show that Smith's conception of utility is not utilitarian. While the pursuit of 'pleasure' could lie behind human behaviour, it is not the pleasure referred to by utilitarianism. Instead, utility, in its...
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Social attitudes and re-distributive policies
Witztum, Amos - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 37 (2008) 4, pp. 1597-1623
The aim of this paper is to examine how the presence of social attitudes (our views of the others as a collective) may influence the effectiveness of re-distributive policies. The analysis will be focused on individuals' attitudes towards income which is directly connected to their own effort,...
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"Social Circumstances and Rationality"
Witztum, Amos - In: American Journal of Economics and Sociology 64 (2005) 4, pp. 1025-1047
Upon the uniformity in individuals' decision-making mechanism rests a great deal of the legitimacy of natural liberty. As we are all equally sovereign (cognitive-wise), we only strike deals that inevitably make us better off. We all gain from trade and thus, as everyone is better off, so must be...
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Social Dimensions of Individualistic Rationality
WITZTUM, AMOS - In: American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71 (2012) 2, pp. 377-406
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ETHICS AND THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: ROBBINS'S ENDURING FALLACY
WITZTUM, AMOS - In: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33 (2011) 04, pp. 467-486
<italic>The basic principles of Robbins's</italic> Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science <italic …>are still present in most textbooks in economics. We thus face a combined problem of historical and contemporary nature. Robbins …–ends analysis, which is oblivious of the ends people seek to promote, is not as neutral as it appears. Robbins chooses to ignore the …
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ADAM SMITH AND THE NEED OF THE POOR: A REJOINDER
WITZTUM, AMOS - In: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 35 (2013) 02, pp. 257-262
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Economic Sociology: The Recursive Economic System of J. S. Mill
Witztum, Amos - In: Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 (2005) 03, pp. 251-281
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