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Character in Alfred Marshall’s work: not so commonplace?

Martinoia, Rozenn - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2014) 66, pp. 35-68

Character is commonly recognised as a crucial notion in Alfred Marshall’s thought, and more broadly in Victorian … of character in Marshall’s thought. While not denying that Marshall’s ideas evolve between his early writings and his … opportunity to re-examine Marshall’s conception of social ideal, on the basis of archives documents: Marshall conceives character …

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Is equilibrium enough and was Stigler wrong? Value theory in the Böhm-Bawerk / Fisher controversies

Cohen, Avi J. - 2011

The interest-rate controversies between Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher have attracted little attention and, in the opinion of most commentators, justifiably so. Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher argue over what appear to be two minor issues – Böhm-Bawerk's claims that his third cause of interest (productivity...

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The Origin of the Sylos Postulate: Modigliani's and Sylos Labini's Contributions to Oligopoly Theory

Rancan, Antonella - 2012

Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Sylos Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (1958),...

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Reincorporating Friedrich von Wieser and the concept of power into the Austrian research program

Kolev, Stefan - 2017

This paper constitutes the start of a project dedicated to Austrian economist and economic sociologist Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926). Its central claim is that especially in recent decades, Wieser has become a disproportionately underresearched scholar, and the paper provides a set of...

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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis: How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the eurozone crisis: How the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015

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Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics

Fiorito, Luca; Orsi, Cosma - 2016

The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought - from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical...

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The "dark ages" of German macroeconomics and other alleged shortfalls in German economic thought

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2017

Ordoliberalism is often accused as being responsible for Germany's policy stance during the Eurozone crisis. Ordoliberalism originates from the so-called Freiburg School of Economics, founded by Walter Eucken during the 1930s at the University of Freiburg, which is in fact in Germany. It is...

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The Weber-Wieser connection: Early economic sociology as an interpretative skeleton key

Kolev, Stefan - 2017

Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies. First, the studies are often either purely...

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The neoclassicals' conundrum: If Adam Smith is the father of economics, it is a bastard child

Valdes Viera, Oscar - 2017

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...

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