The paper discusses the League of Nations's project to produce consensus in the interpretation of aggregate economic fluctuations in the 1930s. G. Haberler started working in 1934 at the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva on a broad enquiry that should lead to a synthesis of the several...

This unique and original work contends that, despite the differences between Marshallian and Schumpeterian thinking, they both present formidable challenges to a broad type of social science beyond economics, particularly under the influence of the German historical school. In a departure from...

The article provides an account of the debate that took place between the late 1920s and the mid 1930s between the Scandinavian economists Johan Åkerman and Ragnar Frisch about the quantitative treatment of aggregate economic fluctuations. Although both interpreted the business cycle as an...