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The Two Poverty Enlightenments: Historical Insights from Digitized Books Spanning Three Centuries
Ravallion, Martin - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 2, pp. 2-2
which there was a striking resurgence of interest, which came with rising attention to economics and more frequent … government intervention and the retreat from leftist economics and politics since the late 1970s. Although many debates from 200 …
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The Moral Trial: Economists and the Socratic Problem
Lanteri, Alessandro - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2007
Most people believe economists are more selfish than noneconomists. The reasons for such belief and for the related moral condemnation of economists remain confused. Both charges and evidence are insufficient to support substantial judgements. Further elaboration would be welcome before drawing...
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Journal rankings in economics: handle with care
Wall, Howard J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2009
Nearly all journal rankings in economics use some weighted average of citations to calculate a journal's impact. These …
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The mathematical economics of compound interest: a 4,000-year overview
Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 344-363
Sketches the history of economic thought regarding the self-expanding growth of investments through the accrual of compound interest. Exercises that calculate such growth in terms of “doubling times” have already been found in Babylonian textbooks from c. 2000?BC. Although compound interest...
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Full circle: economics from scholasticism through innovation and back into mathematical scholasticism: Reflections on a 1769 Price essay: “Why is it that economics so far has gaine...
Reinert, Erik S. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 364-376
scholasticism. A rational, quantified and mechanised world picture emerged. In 1769 an essay questioned why economics benefited so … economics is associated with the use of mathematics. Based on Francis Bacon’s criticism of scholasticism, it is argued here that … strong parallels exist between the decay of scholasticism and the decay of modern economics. From being a science of practice …
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The role of structural change in labour productivity convergence among European Union countries: 1970-1990
Doyle, Eleanor; Eoin O’Leary - In: Journal of Economic Studies 26 (1999) January, pp. 106-120
New evidence is presented on the degree of aggregate and sectoral labour productivity convergence among 11 EU countries between 1970 and 1990. As with studies for other groups of countries, it is found that there is a greater degree of aggregate than sectoral convergence. Aggregate productivity...
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An engineer’s view of economics: Wilhelm Launhardt’s contributions
Backhaus, Ursula - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 424-476
Wilhelm Launhardt (1832-1918) is a founder of mathematical economics. His main work, Mathematical Foundations of … Economics, published in 1885, was translated into English in 1993. As an engineer, he contributed to the field of not only … engineering, but also of economics and, in particular, to those parts in economics which can be treated fruitfully with …
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Econometrics: an appraisal
Meerhaeghe, Marcel A.G. van - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 316-325
Econometrics labours under the same limitations as economics: it rests on unrealistic hypotheses (and non …
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Heinrich von Storch’s concept of the use of mathematics in political economy
Backhaus, Jurgen G. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 377-381
Heinrich von Storch (1766-1835) can claim a very specific position in the history of political economy. Clearly steeped in Camaralist thought, due to his upbringing and later scholarly work in Russia, he was primarily interested in the nature and the causes of the wealth of a nation that he...
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Attilio da Empoli’s significance for economic theory
Meerhaeghe, Marcel A.G. van - In: Journal of Economic Studies 28 (2001) September, pp. 324-333
In 1926, at the age of only 22, da Empoli wrote two remarkable, original books, both of which have aroused much interest. Later da Empoli improved and developed their analysis. Other publications followed, such as his lessons in economic science. Others still were in preparation, but his...
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