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Futurama : business forecasting and the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …
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Making English morals : voluntary association and moral reform in England ; 1787 - 1886
Roberts, M. J. D. - 2004
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The Search for Standard Costing in the United States and Britain
Fleischman, Richard K.; Boyns, Trevor; Tyson, Thomas - 2009
This article describes the relationship between the understanding and practice of standard costing in both the U.S. and the U.K. and discusses the development of specific practices in the immediate post-World War II period. Based on a detailed review of the post-war literature, the authors...
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The burden of risk : early modern maritime enterprise and varieties of capitalism
Fusaro, Maria - In: Business history review 94 (2020) 1, pp. 179-200
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Waging the War of Ideas
Blundell, John - 2013
This paper discusses how wars of ideas can be waged, using the author's extensive experience, both as director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and at other classical liberal think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of published essays, reviews and...
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The Economist Quae Political Economist : Lionel Robbins and the Economic Advisory Council
Dumont Oliveira, Thiago - 2017
This paper assesses Robbins's participation in the Economic Advisory Council in 1930, drawing mostly on The Lionel Robbins Papers held at the LSE. The divergences between him and Keynes are highlighted and an attempt is made to shed some light on Robbins' overarching interest on the interplay of...
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Between LSE and Cambridge : Accounting for Ronald Coase’s Fascination with Alfred Marshall
Medema, Steven G. - 2018
For most economists at Chicago, Marshall was simply an input, the supplier of an approach to economic analysis. For Ronald Coase, however, Marshall was much more than this — a subject of fascination and, at times, almost a reverence and obsession. Trained in the late 1920s and early 1930s at...
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R. Skidelsky's Study of J. M. Keynes is Based on the Many Myths About Keynes Told to Him by Joan Robinson
Brady, Michael Emmett - 2018
Practically all of R. Skidelsky's views on Keynes's General Theory are a reflection of the many myths about Keynes that Joan Robinson spread. Basically, these myths are figments of her imagination. For instance, one such myth about Keynes was that uncertainty for Keynes meant that all decision...
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