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Ricardian inference : Charles S. Peirce, economics, and scientific method
Hoover, Kevin D.; Wible, James R. - 2017 - Revised, 10 July 2017
Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …
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La Teoria Economica, El Afecto Y La Familia
Cuevas, Homero - 2003
This essay is a commented bibliographic inventory of the references in the economic thought concerning the affection and the family, from Adam Smith to the authors that recently have formalized models toward this subject. Within the commented authors are: Smith, Malthus, Sade, Fourier, J.S....
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The activity of Victor Slăvescu : echoes from his epoch
Lupu, Iulia; Criste, Adina; Ciumara, Tudor - In: Financial studies 25 (2021) 4, pp. 6-15
This year we celebrate 130 years since the birth of Victor Slăvescu, one of the most prominent Romanian economists. His various activity took place over a period of time marked by a succession of exceptional events: two world wars, the Great Union of 1918, the interwar period and the beginning...
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Economics and Theology After the Separation
Emmett, Ross B. - 2011
Once economics came to be understood as the scientific investigation of the operation of markets, economic theorists … had no more jurisdiction over the discipline of economics than they did over other scientific disciplines. On one side … has often been understood as part of secularization, yet, economics and theology have often intersected since the …
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Mengerian causality: the case of the entrepreneur
D. Simpson, Barry; Kjar, Scott A. - In: New perspectives on political economy : NPPE ; a … 5 (2009) 1, pp. 9-16
Modern economics is filled with models using simultaneous equations to explain economic behavior. One common model, the …
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Austerity and repressive politics : Italian economists in the early years of the fascist government
Mattei, Clara Elisabetta - 2015
The historical forerunners of contemporary austerity are still largely unexplored. This essay considers the "liberal phase" of Fascist Italy (1922-1925) as a case study to explain austerity as a full-blown rationality, that is intrinsically, and simultaneously, theory and practice, encompassing...
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The Origins of Public Choice and Virginia Political Economy : What Might Arthur Lovejoy Have Thought?
Wagner, Richard E. - 2015
Drawing inspiration from Ross Emmett's (2006) imaginative construction of what Frank Knight might have thought about the Stigler-Becker formulation of Die Gustibus, I ask what Arthur Lovejoy (1936) might have thought about the origin of public choice. He would surely have denied that public...
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Customary Rule-Following Behaviour in the Work of John Stuart Mill and Alfred Marshall
Zouboulakis, Michel - 2015
The informal institutional structure embraces the social norms and moral values of a particular society and together with the formal institutional frame they compose the social environment. Social norms and values, congealed into customary rules of behaviour, provide a stable and enduring...
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Paul A. Samuelson (1915 - 2009) : Memories of Friedrich Von Hayek (1899 - 1992) Spanish Translation: Fernando Estrada and Andrea Trujillo
Estrada, Fernando - 2010
In this report Professor Samuelson staff prepares a tour of the work and thought of highlighting the contributions of Hayek Austrian economist and showing the world within which they took power broadly two contradictory paradigms of economic thought. This testimony intellectual frontline is...
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The Principle of Greatest Happiness in Western Economic Thought and its Relation to Buddhist Economics
Erber, Georg - 2008
Western thinking which lead after a century to the neoclassical paradigm in economics which took the UMP as its foundation for … Buddhist economics and the recent rediscovery of the PGH in modern Western economics. The paper will close with the suggestion …
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