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Sayyid Abu’l A‘la Maududi on Islamic Economics : A Review Article
Zaman, Arshad - 2013
This article reviews an English translation of "First Principles of Islamic Economics" (Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2011) by Maulana Sayyid Abu'l A‘la Maududi (1903-1979), a foundational document of the field, that was published in Urdu in 1969. After a brief Introduction the selections in...
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The Scientific Practices of Economics and the Emergence of Behavioral Economics
Tomer, John F. - 2016
Behavioral economics emerged in the second half of the 20th century and has become an important social science research area. Some have argued that the emergence of behavioral economics (BE) amounts to a scientific revolution. That is, they argue that BE is becoming or has become the new,...
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Knowledge About Welfare : Legal Realism and the Separation of Law and Economics
Hovenkamp, Herbert - 2009
The welfare state could not function without judgments about how well off its citizens are. For example, governments devise progressive income taxes, which are designed to capture more wealth from the well off and less from the impecunious. These policies presume an ability to take a manageable...
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The incommensurability of Keynes’s and Walrasian economics and the unsuccessful escape from old ideas
Heise, Arne - In: Economic thought 10 (2021) 2, pp. 12-19
Keynes’s revolutionary ideas exposed in the General Theory have been "lost in translation". This brief note is an attempt to … reconcile Pernecky and Wojick’s claim that Keynes’s new economics of the General Theory and Walrasian General Equilibrium are …’s appraisal of Keynes’s paradigm as a better approximation to the ‘real world’ than Walsrasian General Equilibrium is inconsistent …
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The incommensurability, incompatibility and incomparability of Keynes's and Walrasian economics
Heise, Arne - 2021
Keynes’s revolutionary ideas exposed in the General Theory have been ‘lost in translation’. This brief note is an attempt to … reconcile Pernecky and Wojick’s claim that Keynes’s new economics of the General Theory and Walrasian General Equilibrium are …’s appraisal of Keynes’s paradigm as a better approximation to the ‘real world’ than Walsrasian General Equilibrum is inconsistent …
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Adam Smith on the Future of Experimental Evolution and Economics
Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2018
Experimental evolution is difficult to apply to humans because of the need to study possible changes over many generations. A similar method, though, may see history as a substitute for experiments. The 18th century economist Adam Smith uses methods compatible with the logic of experimental...
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Samfunnsøkonomiens plass i jussen : det juridiske fakultets første hundre år : the first hundred years
Mehlum, Halvor - 2013 - This version October 12, 2013
In this article I take up the relationship between economics and law in the hundred-year period preceding the establishing of economics as a separate discipline. Rather than providing a review of historical milestones, I concentrate on some observations that illustrate the relationship between...
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Chapter 2 Art and Culture in the History of Economic Thought
Goodwin, Craufurd - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 25-68). 2006
occurred in the Bloomsbury Group that included the economist John Maynard Keynes. They rejected “Benthamism” and distinguished …
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Scientific Norms and the Values of Economists : The Case of Priority Fights in Economics
Hands, D. Wade - 2011
Eponymic honor is a common form of professional recognition in economics, as it is in other sciences. There also seems to be convincing evidence that individuals exposed to economic theory behave less cooperatively and more self-interestedly than individuals who have not been exposed to such...
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Storia Economica E Pensiero Economico : Spunti Dal Caso Italiano (Economic History and Economic Thought: Insights from the Italian Case)
Ciocca, Pierluigi - 2013
L'articolo è rivolto a gettare un ponte fra la storia economica e la storia del pensiero economico nell'esperienza italiana dell'Ottocento e del Novecento. Vengono scelti e approfonditi episodi e fasi concernenti lo sviluppo, la stabilità, la distribuzione del reddito nell'economia italiana...
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