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John Rae has recently been rediscovered as a precursor of the endogenous growth theory. This study argues that Rae needs to be rediscovered a second time for his original contribution to clarify the role of the innovation and technical change within the economic systems. The aim of this paper is...
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This is a review essay of Dennis Rasmussen's 2017 book, The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the …
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question throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adam Smith had left behind an ambiguous legacy on the …, Smith had proposed both a scheme for the gradual devolution of the British empire and a theoretical scheme for imperial …, at the turn of the century many advocates for imperial federation also turned to Smith for their intellectual inspiration …
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reconstruction of Scottish Political Economy as defined by the writings of David Hume and Adam Smith? How much is gained and how much …
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I comment on a paper by Prof David Andrews, 'Adam Smith's Natural Prices, the Gravitation Metaphor, and the Purposes of … Nature', 2014, published in Economic Thought, 3.1, pp. 42-55, which takes a philosophical view of Adam Smith's use of the … Smith simply used a metaphoric 'figure of speech' that followed his teachings (1748-64) on Rhetoric, as in his 'Lectures on …
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Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
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Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist and journalist. One of his classic works is The Candlemakers' Petition, which uses the reductio ad absurdum philosophical technique to dismantle the arguments the French protectionists put forth to protect French industry in the mid-nineteenth...
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This paper provides an overview and discussion of the legal and economic philosophy of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), a French political economist. A bibliography with links to other Bastiat studies is also included
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
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Keynes is back. President Obama's economic stimulus package is based on the premise that we can spend our way out of recession. It is an application of the Keynesian multiplier theory, which was expounded in Keynes' 1936 economic treatise, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money....
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