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Revisiting Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis

Backhouse, Roger - 2015

This paper re-examines the origins of Paul A. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), a book that helped define the way economic theory was undertaken for many years after its publication. Material taken from Samuelson's own papers and other archives is used to elaborate and correct...

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Economists, Crises and Cartoons

Levy, David M. - 2010

Economists have occasionally noticed the appearance of economists in cartoons produced for public amusement during crises. Yet the message behind such images has been less than fully appreciated. This paper provides evidence of such inattention in the context of the eighteenth century...

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The Common Sense of Economics and Divergent Approaches in Economic Thought : A View from Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

Boettke, Peter J.; Candela, Rosolino - 2021

early neoclassical economics priorto WWII. Secondly, we also argue that embroynic to Knight’s account of economics were …

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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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A Foucauldian view of Veblen's institutionalism : non-teleology and the interdiscursivity between economics and biology

Cavalieri, Marco Antonio Ribas; Lima, Iara Vigo de - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 14 (2013) 3/4, pp. 199-213

This paper explores some ontological and epistemological conditions of the emergence of the Veblenian system of political economy. For that, we refer to Foucault's archaeology of political economy, since it offers insights into some of the relations that help us to understand the underlying...

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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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An Example of Untranslatability : The Conceptual Structures of Marshall’s and Keynes’ Conceptions of Investment

Duran, Miguel A. - 2012

This paper discusses the following two hypotheses. The first one is based on the epistemological proposal which we have named the principle of discontinuity. It asserts that certain developments in the history of economic thought involve theoretical breaks which can only be fully explained by...

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Chapter 18 of the General Theory 'Further Analysed' : The Theory of Economics as a Method

Carabelli, Anna - 2011

In 1987, Greenwald and Stiglitz accused Keynes's summary of the "General Theory" in chapter 18 of relying upon “neoclassical and Marshallian tools.” A number of contributions have on the contrary emphasized the methodological importance of this chapter, which this paper revisits in the light...

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The Separation of Economics from Virtue : A Historical-Conceptual Introduction

Schliesser, Eric S. - 2015

is argued that economics embraced a technocratic conception of politics and science. Philosophers, too, embraced and … philosophers and economics and that keep not just ethics, but virtue outside of economics. Many of these philosophers’ commitments … pure economics. So, in effect, this paper explores the origin and nature of a conceptual split between economics and ethics …

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Alfred Marshall on Management

Horide, Ichirou - 2013

This paper examines Alfred Marshall's theory of organization and business management, and explores the significance of his wisdom and foresight. Despite considerable research on Alfred Marshall’s economic theory, little attention, among economists in particular, has been given to his theory of...

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