UNDERSTANDING CLARENCE AYRES’S CRITICISM OF AN EMERGING MAINSTREAM AND BIRTHING INSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH THE 1930S AYRES-KNIGHT DEBATE

Felipe Almeida and Marco Cavalieri

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020, vol. 42, issue 3, 401-416

Abstract: Clarence Ayres was a strong dissenting voice in US economics during the twentieth century. In the 1930s, a debate between Ayres and Frank Knight was published by the International Journal of Ethics. Although the debate focused on ethics, the evolution of economics was also discussed. This paper proposes an understanding of Ayres’s ideas based on the context in which he made them. This context is defined by the 1930s Ayres-Knight debate and the archival correspondence between Ayres and Knight during the 1930s.

Date: 2020
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