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Correcting A. Hansen's Errors on pp. 140-141, 147-148 of His A Guide to Keynes in 1953 : How A. Hansen's Errors Changed the Course of Economic History and Thought for the Worse

Brady, Michael Emmett - 2017

A. Hansen's gross error concerning J M Keynes's analysis in chapter 14 on pp. 180-181 of the General Theory in his A … students who, instead of reading the General Theory, read Hansen's A Guide to Keynes instead. Hansen's book then became … accepted in the economics profession as the correct assessment of Keynes's General Theory. Hansen did an excellent job in …

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Dogmen- und realhistorische Aspekte des Wohlfahrtsbegriffs

Nutzinger, Hans G. - 2012

Die Begriffe Wohlfahrt und Wohlstand werden in ihrem dogmenhistorischen Entstehungskontext untersucht. Dabei wird zum einen der Schwerpunkt auf die von den Physiokraten, aber auch von John Stuart Mill, W. Stanley Jevons und sogar von deutschen Ordoliberalen thematisierten Wachstumsgrenzen gelegt...

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Dictionary Reconstructions of the History of the Theories of Crises and Cycles : A Meta-Taxonomy

Besomi, Daniele - 2011

This chapter surveys the classificatory approaches of business cycles and crises theories found in dictionary articles. These are found to belong to a surprisingly small number of types. At first, dictionary writers only cited the theories they wanted to disprove. Then (especially in Germany in...

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Estimating rationality in economics : a history of statistical methods in experimental economics

Vallois, Nicolas; Jullien, Dorian - 2018

Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...

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Disease of the Body Politick : A Metaphor for Crises in the History of Nineteenth Century Economics

Besomi, Daniele - 2011

epistemology of crises theory, and reflects on the metaphysical shift accompanying the transition from the theories of crises to …

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Futurama : business forecasting and the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period

Lenel, Laetitia - 2018

The recognition of the key importance of economic stability after World War I sparked interest in business forecasting on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the creation and the rapid international and domestic dissemination of the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in...

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Auguste Comte & Philosophy of History

Nyarko, John Abbam - 2023

theory of positivism …

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Eliminating history from economic thought

Laidler, David E. W. - In: Today's standards and yesterday's economics - two short …, (pp. 1-7). 2012

Formal analysis, in which maximizing agents use today's "true" model of the economy to form expectation upon which they then base their behaviour, trivializes the role of the future in economic life and ignores the possibility that the past's models, which helped generate the data against which...

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Evolution of the Economics of Science in the Twenty Century

Coccia, Mario - 2018

A new discipline analyses the role of science in society: the economics of scientific research. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins, nature, evolution and structure of the economics of scientific research. The paper suggests that one of the first scholars that has tried to...

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1985 : A Defining Year in the History of Modern Austrian Economics

Boettke, Peter J. - 2015

Mises and Hayek in the 1920s and 1940s thought of their work as within the orthodoxy of economic science. But after WWII it became increasingly obvious that the contributions of Mises and Hayek were out of step with the way the economics profession was evolving. But starting in 1974, due to the...

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