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Volume 32, issue 04, 2010

EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FED pp. 445-470 Downloads
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
MACHLUP ON THE TRANSFER PROBLEM pp. 471-493 Downloads
Kepa Ormazabal
SOUTH SIDE BLUES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO SCHOOL pp. 495-530 Downloads
Craig Freedman
HOW INFLUENTIAL WAS MECHANICS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS? A SMALL EXAMPLE OF A LARGE QUESTION pp. 531-581 Downloads
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
CLOSING THE MODEL? THE HARROD–MARSCHAK CORRESPONDENCE ON THE DRAFT OF THE “ESSAY IN DYNAMIC THEORY” pp. 583-608 Downloads
Florencia Sember
THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF ECONOMICS: LIFE-WORLD, FORMALISM, AND THE INVISIBLE HAND pp. 609-611 Downloads
Till Düppe
JOYFUL ECONOMISTS: REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY FROM THE HAPPINESS STUDIES PERSPECTIVE pp. 611-613 Downloads
José M. Edwards
AMERICAN ECONOMICS AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY: THORSTEIN B. VEBLEN, ALFRED MARSHALL, AND THE METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INSTITUTIONALISM pp. 613-615 Downloads
Tiziana Foresti
A THEISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE AUSTRIAN THEORIES OF CAPITAL AND INTEREST pp. 615-617 Downloads
Troy Lynch
REGULATIONS AND COMPETITION IN THE FRENCH RAILROAD INDUSTRY 1823–1914 pp. 617-619 Downloads
Guy Numa
PROPERTY, POSSESSION, AND PRESCRIPTION: THE RULE OF LAW IN THE HESSIAN AND RHINE-MAIN REGION OF GERMANY, 1648–1776 pp. 620-620 Downloads
Colin F. Wilder
INTELLECTUAL PATHS AND PATHOLOGIES: HOW SMALL EVENTS IN SCHOLARLY LIFE ACCIDENTALLY GROW BIG pp. 621-622 Downloads
Altuğ Yalçıntaş

Volume 32, issue 03, 2010

THIRSTING FOR THE FRAY: THE CAMBRIDGE DUNNING OF MR. MACLEOD pp. 305-328 Downloads
Michael V. White
FRIEDMAN’S NOBEL LECTURE AND THE PHILLIPS CURVE MYTH pp. 329-348 Downloads
James Forder
BEFORE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: WESTERN POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE “RUSSIAN CASE,” AND THE FIRST PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS (FROM THE 1760S UNTIL THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY) pp. 349-376 Downloads
Ezequiel Adamovsky
HOW “CHICAGOAN” ARE GARY BECKER’S ECONOMIC MODELS OF MARRIAGE? pp. 377-395 Downloads
Shoshana Grossbard
SPECULATION IN COMMODITIES: KEYNES’ “PRACTICAL ACQUAINTANCE” WITH FUTURES MARKETS pp. 397-418 Downloads
Luca Fantacci, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Eleonora Sanfilippo
HENRY GEORGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN’S THEORY OF CAPITAL pp. 419-431 Downloads
Neil B. Niman
Donald Winch, Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1848–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; Ideas in Context Series, No. 95), pp. xii, 427, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-88753-3 (pb $34.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-71539-3) pp. 433-435 Downloads
Tony Aspromourgos
Tony Aspromourgos, The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the framing of political economy (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 396, $150. ISBN 0-203-88957 pp. 435-436 Downloads
Maria Pia Paganelli
Richard Tuck, Free Riding (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. viii, 223. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-6744-02834-0 pp. 437-438 Downloads
Roger E. Backhouse
Donald Frey, America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 239, $75. ISBN 978-0-7914-9351-9 pp. 439-440 Downloads
John E. Stapleford
Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economies (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. xi, 231, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-73569-9 pp. 441-442 Downloads
Jeffrey T. Young
LUCAS, KEYNES, AND THE CRISIS - ERRATUM pp. 443-443 Downloads
David Laidler

Volume 32, issue 02, 2010

THE HOMELESS OBSERVER: JOHN HARSANYI ON INTERPERSONAL UTILITY COMPARISONS AND BARGAINING, 1950–1964 pp. 145-173 Downloads
Philippe FONTAINE
THE CHANGING PLACE OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN ECONOMICS: PAUL SAMUELSON BETWEEN PRINCIPLE AND STRATEGY, 1941–1955 pp. 175-197 Downloads
Yann B. Giraud
HISTORICISM AND NEOCLASSICISM IN THE KIEV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: THE CASE OF ALEKSANDER BILIMOVICH pp. 199-219 Downloads
Andrej Sušjan
UNCERTAINTY, PROFIT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION: FRANK KNIGHT’S CONTRIBUTION RECONSIDERED pp. 221-235 Downloads
Geoffrey T. F. Brooke
ADAM SMITH’S SYSTEM OF NATURAL LIBERTY: COMPETITION, CONTESTABILITY, AND MARKET PROCESS pp. 237-262 Downloads
Michael E. Bradley
THE KEYNES-HARROD CONTROVERSY ON THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF THE RATE OF INTEREST AND THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF MARKETS pp. 263-284 Downloads
JÉRÔME de BOYER des ROCHES
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, eds., The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations in Analytical Egalitarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. viii, 437. $70. ISBN 978-0-472-11644-7 pp. 285-287 Downloads
Roger E. Backhouse
Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, second edition (New York and London, M. E. Sharpe, 2009), pp. 512. Cloth $94.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-2226-6. Paper $42.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-2227-3 pp. 287-289 Downloads
Craufurd David Goodwin
Bradley Bateman and H. Spencer Banzhaf, Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy. History of Political Economy Annual Supplement (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 370. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8223-6702-4 pp. 290-292 Downloads
Paul Oslington
N. Emrah Aydinonat, The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. xvi, 254. Cloth: $140, ISBN 978-0-415-41783-9. Paper: $39.95, ISBN 978-0-415-56954-5 pp. 292-295 Downloads
Warren J. Samuels
Calvin Hayes, Popper, Hayek and the Open Society (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), pp. xx, 284. $150. ISBN 978-0-415-77289-1 pp. 295-297 Downloads
Jeremy Shearmur
Donald R. Stabile, The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008), pp. 176, $100. ISBN: 978-1-84844-197-2 pp. 297-299 Downloads
Bruce E. Kaufman
Stanley Buder, Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), pp. x, 560. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3231-8 pp. 299-301 Downloads
Mansel G. Blackford
Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg, eds., Christian Theology and Market Economics (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2008), pp. 240. Cloth: $110, ISBN 978-1-84720-377-9. Paper: $35, ISBN 978-1-84980-182-9 pp. 301-303 Downloads
Kathryn D. Blanchard

Volume 32, issue 01, 2010

CAPITAL CONTROVERSY FROM BÖHM-BAWERK TO BLISS: BADLY POSED OR VERY DEEP QUESTIONS? OR WHAT “WE” CAN LEARN FROM CAPITAL CONTROVERSY EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE WHO WON pp. 1-21 Downloads
Avi J. Cohen
THE OLD GENERATION OF ECONOMISTS AND THE NEW: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORIAN’S APPROACH TO A SIGNIFICANT TRANSITION pp. 23-37 Downloads
Donald Winch
LUCAS, KEYNES, AND THE CRISIS pp. 39-62 Downloads
David Laidler
ON THE THINNESS OF THE UTILITARIAN DEFENSE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY pp. 63-83 Downloads
Joseph Persky
THE PERIODICITY OF CRISES. A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE BEFORE 1850 pp. 85-132 Downloads
Daniele Besomi
Gilles Dostaler, Keynes and His Battles (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007), pp. 384, $160. ISBN 978-1-85898-266-3 pp. 133-135 Downloads
Sean Langcake and Robert Leeson
Goeff Cockfield, Ann Firth, and John Laurent, eds., New Perspective on Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2007) pp. vii, 170, $100. ISBN 1845424808 pp. 135-136 Downloads
Maria Pia Paganelli
Franciso Louçã, The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xxiv, 370, $180. ISBN 978-0-415-41974-1 pp. 137-139 Downloads
Kevin D. Hoover
Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert, eds., Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), pp. xviii, 198, $100 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6149-8 pp. 139-142 Downloads
Anna Klimina
Yuichi Shionoya and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic Sociology of Capitalist Development (Cheltenham, UK, and Northhampton, MA, 2008), pp. ix, 285, $140. ISBN: 978-1-84720-813-2 pp. 142-144 Downloads
Anne Mayhew

Volume 31, issue 04, 2009

FOREWORD pp. 417-420 Downloads
Mark Blaug
ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN LIONEL ROBBINS'S WRITINGS pp. 421-436 Downloads
Fabio Masini
WHAT WAS “IT” THAT ROBBINS WAS DEFINING? pp. 437-448 Downloads
David Colander
ON THE ROLE OF VALUES IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE: ROBBINS AND HIS CRITICS pp. 449-473 Downloads
Andrea Scarantino
ROBBINS AND WELFARE ECONOMICS: A REAPPRAISAL pp. 474-484 Downloads
Roger E. Backhouse
ROBBINS'S ESSAY AND THE AXIOMATIZATION OF ECONOMICS pp. 485-499 Downloads
Roger E. Backhouse and Steven G. Medema
DISCIPLINING BOUNDARIES: LIONEL ROBBINS, MAX WEBER, AND THE BORDERLANDS OF ECONOMICS, HISTORY, AND PSYCHOLOGY pp. 500-517 Downloads
Harro Maas
WHO WAS MOST WORLD-FAMOUS – CASSEL OR KEYNES? THE ECONOMIST AS YARDSTICK pp. 519-530 Downloads
Benny Carlson
SCHUMPETER VS. KEYNES: “IN THE LONG RUN NOT ALL OF US ARE DEAD” pp. 531-541 Downloads
Arthur M. Diamond
HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS: A COMMENT ON CARLSON AND DIAMOND pp. 543-547 Downloads
Steven G. Medema
George Steinmetz, ed., The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. ix, 620, $25.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8223-3518-2 pp. 549-550 Downloads
Bruce Caldwell
Erik Angner, Hayek and Natural Law (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xvi, 140, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-415-39715-5 pp. 551-555 Downloads
Bruce Caldwell
Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, and Thomas E. Uebel, eds., Otto Neurath's Economics in Context (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. x, 234, $169.00. ISBN 978-1-4020-6904-8 pp. 555-560 Downloads
Bruce Caldwell

Volume 31, issue 03, 2009

KEYNES AND THE LSE ECONOMISTS pp. 257-280 Downloads
Susan Howson
JOHN STUART MILL AND THE EMPLOYMENT OF MARRIED WOMEN: RECONCILING UTILITY AND JUSTICE pp. 281-304 Downloads
Nathalie Sigot and Christophe Beaurain
A CREDITABLE PERFORMANCE? SIR OSWALD STOLL AS BUSINESS STRATEGIST AND MONETARY HERETIC pp. 305-324 Downloads
Vincent Barnett
THE SHIBATA–OKISHIO CONNECTION: LABOR THEORY OF VALUE AND RATE OF PROFIT pp. 325-339 Downloads
Dong-Min Rieu
WILLIAM PETTY, NICHOLAS BARBON, MULTIPLES, AND A NEW HYPOTHESIS OF INEVITABLE DISCOVERY pp. 341-359 Downloads
James H. Ullmer
RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS FORTY YEARS LATER. A SYMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF BOB COATS pp. 361-363 Downloads
Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi
RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS FORTY YEARS LATER pp. 364-374 Downloads
Paul Dudenhefer
LEARNING WITH BOB COATS'S LEGACY pp. 375-379 Downloads
José Luís Cardoso
TRACES OF COATS'S LEGACY IN HISTORY OF ECONOMIC IDEAS pp. 380-383 Downloads
Riccardo Faucci
“THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS IS WHAT HISTORIANS OF ECONOMICS DO:” A RECONSIDERATION OF RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT pp. 384-391 Downloads
Steven G. Medema
CONCLUDING REMARKS: A WEALTH OF APPROACHES pp. 392-397 Downloads
Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi
Samuel Hollander, The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xvi, 532. HB $130. ISBN 978-0-521-79078-9. PB $65, ISBN 978-0-521-79399-5 pp. 399-400 Downloads
Mark Blaug
Samuel Hollander, The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xvi, 532. HB $130. ISBN 978-0-521-79078-9. PB $65, ISBN 978-0-521-79399-5 pp. 400-404 Downloads
Duncan K. Foley
Samuel Hollander, The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xvi, 532. HB $130. ISBN: 978-0-521-79078-9. PB $65, ISBN 978-0-521-79399-5 pp. 404-407 Downloads
Michael Howard
Paul B. Trescott, Jingji Xue: The History of the Introduction of Western Economic Ideas into China, 1850-1950 (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007), pp. xxiv, 442, $55. ISBN 978-962-996-242-5 pp. 407-409 Downloads
Felix Boecking
D. E. Moggridge, Harry Johnson: A Life in Economics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. xxii, 486, $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87482-3 pp. 409-412 Downloads
J. Daniel Hammond
Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas, eds., David Hume's Political Economy. (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. xiii, 378, $160. ISBN 978-0-415-32001-6 pp. 413-415 Downloads
Jeffrey T. Young
Gordon Fletcher, Dennis Robertson: Essays on his Life and Work (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. vii, 192, $94.95. ISBN 978-0-230-01905 pp. 415-416 Downloads
D. E. Moggridge

Volume 31, issue 02, 2009

OLIVI TO HUTCHESON: TRACING AN EARLY TRADITION IN VALUE THEORY pp. 131-141 Downloads
Odd Langholm
THE PHILLIPS CURVE ANALYSIS: AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE CLASSICAL FORCED-SAVING DOCTRINE pp. 143-160 Downloads
James C. W. Ahiakpor
GRADUATE EDUCATION IN ECONOMICS: MICROECONOMICS AT CHICAGO AND YALE IN THE 1960s pp. 161-180 Downloads
JOHN F. McDONALD
THE THEORY OF [COMPETITIVE] PRICE ACCORDING TO GEORGE J. STIGLER pp. 181-200 Downloads
David R. Kamerschen and Deepa J. Sridhar
WHY FRIEDMAN’S METHODOLOGY DID NOT GENERATE CONSENSUS AMONG ECONOMISTS pp. 201-214 Downloads
David Teira
POSNER, ECONOMICS AND THE LAW: FROM “LAW AND ECONOMICS” TO AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW pp. 215-232 Downloads
Sophie Harnay and Alain Marciano
Denis P. O'Brien, History of Economic Thought as an Intellectual Discipline (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), pp. xii, 430, $160, ISBN 978-1-84720-259-8 pp. 233-236 Downloads
Roger Middleton
William J. Barber, Gunnar Myrdal: An Intellectual Biography (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. xiii, 180, $95.00. ISBN 978-1-4039-9944-3.Paul Davidson, John Maynard Keynes (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xiv, 222, $90.00. ISBN 978-1-4039-9623-7.Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan, Franco Modigliani: A Mind that Never Rests (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. xiv, 208, $95.00. ISBN 978-0-230-00789-5 pp. 236-240 Downloads
Roger E. Backhouse
James R. Hackney Jr., Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xx, 239, $64.10 (hbk), $22.95 (pbk). ISBN-13: 978-0822339984 pp. 240-242 Downloads
Ejan Mackaay
Henry W. de Jong and William G. Shepherd, eds., Pioneers of Industrial Organization: How the Economics of Competition and Monopoly Took Shape (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007) pp. 243-244 Downloads
John Howard Brown
Alberto Giacomin and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, eds., Money and Markets: A Doctrinal Approach, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 252, $150. ISBN 978-0-415-38403-2 pp. 244-247 Downloads
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches
Rick Tilman, Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2007), pp. xxiv, 344, $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8262-1714-1 pp. 247-250 Downloads
Geoffrey Martin Hodgson
Bert Mosselmans, William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xv, 143, $40. ISBN 0-415-28578-X pp. 250-251 Downloads
Margaret Schabas
Leonidas Montes and Eric Schliesser, eds., New Voices on Adam Smith (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. xxi, 364, $180. ISBN 0-415-35696-2 pp. 251-255 Downloads
Glenn Hueckel

Volume 31, issue 01, 2009

FROM THE EDITORS pp. 1-2 Downloads
Marcel Boumans and Evelyn L. Forget
2008 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WE'RE ALL “PERSONS” NOW: CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS AND THEIR OPPONENTS ON MARRIAGE, THE FRANCHISE, AND SOCIALISM pp. 3-20 Downloads
Sandra J. Peart
THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC EDUCATION OF DUNCAN FOLEY pp. 21-31 Downloads
Duncan K. Foley
GUNNAR MYRDAL AND THE SCIENTIFIC WAY TO SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, 1914–1968 pp. 33-55 Downloads
Beatrice Cherrier
LESSIUS AND THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SCHOLASTIC PARADIGM pp. 57-78 Downloads
Wim Decock
APPROBATION AND THE DESIRE TO BETTER ONE'S CONDITION IN ADAM SMITH pp. 79-92 Downloads
Maria Pia Paganelli
REPLY TO HANDS: ON THE ROBBINS–SAMUELSON ARGUMENT PATTERN pp. 93-103 Downloads
Don Ross
REJOINDER TO ROSS: MORE ON THE ROBBINS–SAMUELSON ARGUMENT PATTERN pp. 105-114 Downloads
D. Wade Hands
Thomas Sowell, On Classical Economics (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. x, 364, $40. ISBN 0-300-11316-1 pp. 115-117 Downloads
A. M. C. Waterman
Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow, eds., A History of Scottish Economic Thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. ix, 261, $75.00, ISBN 10: 0-415-34437-9 (hbk), ISBN 10: 0-203-48623-4 (ebk), ISBN 13: 978-0-415-34437-1 (hbk), ISBN 13: 978-0-203-48623-8 (ebk) pp. 117-119 Downloads
Maria Pia Paganelli
Malcolm C. Sawyer, ed., The Legacy of Michał Kalecki, 2 vols. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999), Vol. I, pp. xvi, 560, Vol. II, pp. xv, 425, $415.00, ISBN 1-84064-055-3 pp. 119-122 Downloads
Tracy Mott
Mark G. Hayes, The Economics of Keynes: A New Guide to The General Theory (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. xvi, 257, £25. ISBN 13: 978-1-84720-082-2 pp. 122-125 Downloads
Toshiaki Hirai
Cosimo Perrotta, Consumption as Investment: I. The Fear of Goods from Hesiod to Adam Smith (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xix, 378, $210. ISBN 0-415-30619-1 pp. 125-127 Downloads
Antonio Almodovar
Peter J. Boettke and Peter T. Leeson, eds., The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises, Volumes I and II (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. xx and xiii, 526 and 659, $565. ISBN 1-84064-402-8 pp. 127-130 Downloads
Robert P. Murphy
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