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Volume 34, issue 04, 2012

THE ACCELERATOR PRINCIPLE AT THE CORE OF FRISCH’S 1933 ROCKING HORSE MODEL pp. 447-473 Downloads
Ariane Dupont-Kieffer
THE MACHINE IN ADAM SMITH’S ECONOMIC AND WIDER THOUGHT pp. 475-490 Downloads
Tony Aspromourgos
ARROW AND DEBREU DE-HOMOGENIZED pp. 491-514 Downloads
Till Düppe
THE RISE OF GREED IN EARLY ECONOMIC THOUGHT: FROM DEADLY SIN TO SOCIAL BENEFIT pp. 515-539 Downloads
Rudi Verburg
THE HISTORY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTERDEPENDENT PREFERENCES pp. 541-557 Downloads
Stavros A. Drakopoulos
ADAM SMITH ON JUSTICE AND THE NEEDS OF THE POOR pp. 559-575 Downloads
John Salter
INVENTING THE MARKET. SMITH, HEGEL, AND POLITICAL THEORY pp. 577-579 Downloads
Lisa Herzog
Tomas Sedlacek, Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xii, 352. ISBN 978 0 19 976720 5.David C. Rose, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xiii, 269, $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978 0 19 978174 4 pp. 581-584 Downloads
Donald E. Frey
Warren J. Samuels (with the assistance of Marianne F. Johnson and William H. Perry), Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 352, $95.00. ISBN 9780521517256 pp. 584-587 Downloads
Terry Peach

Volume 34, issue 03, 2012

REVIVING CONFIDENCE pp. 293-320 Downloads
Carol M. Connell
EVELINE MABEL BURNS: THE NEGLECTED CONTRIBUTIONS OF A SOCIAL SECURITY PIONEER pp. 321-337 Downloads
Sherry Davis Kasper
CLARE DE GRAFFENREID AND THE ART OF CONTROVERSY: A PRIZEWINNING WOMAN ECONOMIST IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION pp. 339-353 Downloads
Robert W. Dimand and Geoffrey Black
RELATIVE INCOME VS. PERMANENT INCOME: THE CRISIS OF THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONSUMPTION pp. 355-377 Downloads
Attilio Trezzini
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A SUM (∑) MAKES: SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN THE RATIONALIZATION OF DEMAND pp. 379-396 Downloads
D. Wade Hands
OSWALD TOYNBEE FALK: KEYNES’ MODEL ECONOMIST? pp. 397-410 Downloads
Alex Millmow
ADAM SMITH ON METHOD: NEWTONIANISM, HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE “INVISIBLE HAND” pp. 411-435 Downloads
Stefano Fiori
BOOK REVIEWS Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman, Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 197, $25.95. ISBN 978-0-674-05775-3 pp. 437-440 Downloads
Dr Robert A. Cord
Perry Mehrling, The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. xii, 174, $29.95. IBSN 978-0-691-14398-9 pp. 440-442 Downloads
Kevin D. Hoover
Vincent Barnett, E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician: Crossing the Limits of Knowledge (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. xvii, 225, $130 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-415-54960-8 pp. 442-445 Downloads
François Allisson

Volume 34, issue 02, 2012

THE MATHEMATICAL TURN IN ECONOMICS: WALRAS, THE FRENCH MATHEMATICIANS, AND THE ROAD NOT TAKEN pp. 149-167 Downloads
Michael H. Turk
EXPLORING HAWTREY’S SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY THROUGH HIS UNPUBLISHED BOOK, RIGHT POLICY pp. 169-192 Downloads
Toshiaki Hirai
DUMPING AS PRICE DISCRIMINATION: JANNACCONE’S CLASSIC THEORY BEFORE VINER pp. 193-218 Downloads
Simona Cantono and Roberto Marchionatti
THE POPULARIZATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA THROUGH ENCYCLOPEDIAS (1887–1930) pp. 219-242 Downloads
Jesús Astigarraga and Juan Zabalza
THE ORGANIZATIONAL PROPERTIES OF MONEY: GUSTAVO DEL VECCHIO’S THEORY pp. 243-260 Downloads
Gianfranco Tusset
THE MANAGERIAL RATIONALITY, FROM DOMESTIC ADMINISTRATION TO GOVERNANCE pp. 261-262 Downloads
Thibault Le Texier
THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR: A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND AN ATTEMPT TO COMBINE IT WITH OTHER APPROACHES pp. 262-264 Downloads
Dotan Leshem
Veronica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 341, $150. ISBN: 978-1-84542-043-7 pp. 265-267 Downloads
Andrés Alvarez
Stephen H. Kellert, Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), x + pp. 292, $35.00. ISBN 0226429784 pp. 267-270 Downloads
Matthieu Ballandonne
Nancy Folbre, Greed, Lust & Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. xxxiii, 379, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-923842-2 pp. 271-274 Downloads
Robert W. Dimand
Jörg Bibow, Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty: Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xii, 249, £85 (US $135.00). ISBN 978-0-415-35262-8 (hardback); £32.50 (US $42.50). ISBN 978-0-415-61647-8 (paperback) pp. 274-276 Downloads
Mark Gerard Hayes
Thomas Karier, Intellectual Capital: Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 351, $35.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76326-4 pp. 276-279 Downloads
Barry T. Hirsch
Robert Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science 1900–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. vi, 469, $55.00. ISBN 978-0-521-56266-9 pp. 279-282 Downloads
Alessandro Innocenti
Agnar Sandmo, Economics Evolving. A History of Economic Thought (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. vii, 489, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-14842-7 pp. 282-285 Downloads
Roberto Lampa
Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler, The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions (Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011), pp. 244, $17.00. ISBN 978-1-610-16134-3 pp. 285-287 Downloads
Matthew McCaffrey
D.P. O’Brien and J. Creedy, eds., Darwin’s Clever Neighbour, George Warde Norman and his Circle (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. lvi, 444, $165. ISBN 978-1-84844-557-4 pp. 287-289 Downloads
Matthew Luke Smith
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Robbert Maseland, Culture in Economics: History, Methodological Reflections, and Contemporary Applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xx, 388, $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19300-9 pp. 289-292 Downloads
Andrej Sušjan

Volume 34, issue 01, 2012

HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: WHAT’S WRONG WITH ECONOMICS? pp. 1-20 Downloads
Jerry Evensky
C.E. FERGUSON’S LOST REPLY TO JOAN ROBINSON ON THE THEORY OF CAPITAL pp. 21-41 Downloads
Scott Carter
PARETO’S INFLUENCE ON SCHOLARS FROM THE ITALIAN TRADITION IN PUBLIC FINANCE pp. 43-66 Downloads
Amedeo Fossati
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NICOLAS DUTOT pp. 67-107 Downloads
Francois Velde
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ECONOPHYSICS IN THE SHADOW OF PHYSICS pp. 109-130 Downloads
Y. Gingras and C. Schinckus
GROWTH AND PROGRESS IN ADAM SMITH’S THOUGHT pp. 131-132 Downloads
Benoît Walraevens
Helen Yaffe, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (London: Palgrave, 2009), pp. xiii, 368, $130.00. ISBN 978-0230218215 pp. 133-136 Downloads
Kamran Nayeri
Elvira Vilches, New World Gold: Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 368, $45. ISBN 9780226856186 pp. 136-138 Downloads
Carl Wennerlind
William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch, Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, fifth edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), pp. 456, $31.95. ISBN 978-0-262-01276-8.Karen Ilse Horn, Roads to Wisdom: Conversation with Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 384, £95.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-670-0 pp. 138-141 Downloads
Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg
Christopher S. Chivvis, The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-century Free Market Thought (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010), pp. xi, 234, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-87580-417-0 pp. 141-145 Downloads
M. June Flanders
Lluís Barbé, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A Portrait with Family and Friends, translated by Mary C. Black (Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. xxxvi, 291, $150. ISBN 978-1-84844-716-5. Originally published in Catalan in 2006 pp. 146-147 Downloads
Harro Maas

Volume 33, issue 04, 2011

THE USDA GRADUATE SCHOOL: GOVERNMENT TRAINING IN STATISTICS AND ECONOMICS, 1921–1945 pp. 419-447 Downloads
Malcolm Rutherford
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: FR. JOHN A. RYAN AND THE MINIMUM WAGE MOVEMENT pp. 449-466 Downloads
J. Daniel Hammond
ETHICS AND THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: ROBBINS'S ENDURING FALLACY pp. 467-486 Downloads
Amos Witztum
THE CONCEPT OF AN AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS, FROM PETTY TO SMITH pp. 487-505 Downloads
Anthony Brewer
JOHN STUART MILL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN pp. 507-526 Downloads
Estrella Trincado and José-Luis Ramos
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS AND THE “RUSSIAN CASE”: THE IMPACT OF RUSSIA’S REALITIES AND THINKERS IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEBATE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT pp. 527-550 Downloads
Ezequiel Adamovsky
Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xi, 244, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19786-1 pp. 551-553 Downloads
Robert Sugden
José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains, eds. Paying for the Liberal State. The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xii, 310, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-5215-1852-9 pp. 553-555 Downloads
Agnar Sandmo
SCIENTIFIC RIGOR AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE: THE TWO DIMENSIONS OF OSKAR R. LANGE’S EARLY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (1931–1945) pp. 557-559 Downloads
Roberto Lampa
THE CARDINALIST MANIFESTO: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE MEASURABILITY OF UTILITY pp. 559-561 Downloads
Jonathan Andreas
ECONOMICS AND DIVERSITY pp. 562-564 Downloads
D’ippoliti, Carlo

Volume 33, issue 03, 2011

THE MONETARY ECONOMICS OF BENJAMIN GRAHAM: A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOODS AND MONEY? pp. 285-305 Downloads
Perry Mehrling
RECIPROCITY AND HENRY C. CAREY’S TRAVERSES ON “THE ROAD TO PERFECT FREEDOM OF TRADE” pp. 307-333 Downloads
Stephen Meardon
CAPABILITIES FOR THE MISERABLE; HAPPINESS FOR THE SATISFIED pp. 335-355 Downloads
José M. Edwards and Sophie Pellé
CARL MENGER AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE AUSTRIAN TRADITION ON THE NATURE OF CAPITAL AND ITS STRUCTURE pp. 357-384 Downloads
Anthony M. Endres and David A. Harper
THE HIDDEN ADAM SMITH IN HIS ALLEGED THEOLOGY pp. 385-402 Downloads
Gavin Kennedy
Jeffrey T. Young, ed., Elgar Companion to Adam Smith (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. xxv, 374, $215. ISBN 978-1-84542-019-2 pp. 403-405 Downloads
Jason J. Delaney
Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. xvi, 285, $105. ISBN 978-1-4039-4789-5 pp. 405-408 Downloads
Glenn Hueckel
Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), pp. 296, $31.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25836-5 pp. 408-409 Downloads
Tiago Mata
Joseph Schumpeter, The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory, edited by Bruce A. McDaniel (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), pp. xxvi; 464, $69.95. ISBN 9781412811507 pp. 409-411 Downloads
Matthew McCaffrey
Frederic Lee, A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2009), pp. x, 354, $130. ISBN 978-0-415-77714-8 (hardback) pp. 411-413 Downloads
O’Hara, Phillip Anthony
Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine, eds., The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. x, 256, $26.00. ISBN 978-0-521-71776-2 pp. 413-417 Downloads
Dorothy Ross

Volume 33, issue 02, 2011

EARLY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEBATES REVISITED pp. 145-171 Downloads
Michele Alacevich
WICKSELL ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS OF 1907 pp. 173-185 Downloads
Mauro Boianovsky
AFTERSHOCKS FROM A REVOLUTION: ORDINAL UTILITY AND COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES pp. 187-222 Downloads
Thomas A. Stapleford
AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LAW IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GAETANO FILANGIERI AND LA SCIENZA DELLA LEGISLAZIONE pp. 223-248 Downloads
Fabrizio Simon
ADAM SMITH’S ESSENTIALS: ON TRUST, FAITH, AND FREE MARKETS pp. 249-267 Downloads
Jerry Evensky
Steven G. Medema, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 272, $35.ISBN 978-1-4008-3077-0 pp. 269-271 Downloads
Spencer Banzhaf
Thomas A. Stapleford, The Cost of Living in America. A Political History of Economic Statistics 1880–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 421, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-521-71924-7 pp. 271-274 Downloads
Emmanuel Didier
George Warde Norman, Taxation and the Promotion of Human Happiness: An Essay by George Warde Norman, ed. D. P. O’Brien, with assistance from John Creedy (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2009), pp. xilll, 209, £59.95. ISBN 978-1-84844-485-0 pp. 274-277 Downloads
Takuo Dome
Ross B. Emmett, Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xxxi, 218, $130 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0415775007 pp. 277-280 Downloads
Andrew Farrant
Lanny Ebenstein, Milton Friedman: A Biography (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xi, 286, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-4039-7627-9 pp. 280-283 Downloads
Arthur M. Diamond

Volume 33, issue 01, 2011

HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE COASE THEOREM LESSONS FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT pp. 1-18 Downloads
Steven G. Medema
KARL KNIES AND THE PREHISTORY OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF “DIE NATIONALOEKONOMISCHE LEHRE VOM WERTH” (1855) pp. 19-35 Downloads
Kosmas Papadopoulos and Bradley W. Bateman
THE THEORY OF VALUE IN THE NATIONAL ECONOMY pp. 37-66 Downloads
Karl Knies
CRISES AS A DISEASE OF THE BODY POLITICK. A METAPHOR IN THE HISTORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ECONOMICS pp. 67-118 Downloads
Daniele Besomi
REVIEW ESSAY: POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY AFTER SMITH pp. 119-129 Downloads
Donald Winch
Poovey Mary, Genres of the Credit Economy. Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2008), pp. 511. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-67532-9 pp. 131-133 Downloads
Marina Bianchi
Mirowski Philip and Plehwe Dieter, eds., The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. vi, 469, $55.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4 pp. 134-137 Downloads
Ross B Emmett
Simon J. Cook, The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science. A Rounded Globe of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xviii, 331, £52.25. ISBN 978-0-76008-9 pp. 137-139 Downloads
Peter Groenewegen
Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes, The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2009), pp. x, 293, illus., bibl., index, $23.95 (paper). ISBN 9780822345381 pp. 139-142 Downloads
Eleonora Sanfilippo
Schabas Margaret, The Natural Origins of Economies (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. xi, 231, $40.00. ISBN 0–226–73569–9 pp. 142-144 Downloads
Jeffrey T. Young
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