Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology – serie

This volume is the 15th in a series which collects together research in the history of economic thought and methodology. It considers issues such as why historians should examine the history of economic thought, whether it is 'history' or 'economics', and whether it is progressive or cyclical.

This supplement is part of a series which offers contemporary work and research in the areas of methodology and the history of economic thought.

This volume is part of a series which offers contemporary work and research in the areas of methodology and the history of economic thought.

Part of a series which offers contemporary work and research in the areas of methodology and the history of economic thought, this volume concentrates on the work on John R. Commons.

This annual volume includes papers on: Edwin Cannan, economic theory and the history of economic thought; Gardiner C. Means, the relation of his administered price hypothesis to neoclassical price theory; Alfred Marshall's approach to economics differed from later neoclassical economics; and notes taken by Victor E. Smith from lectures by William Jaffe on Alfred Marshall. Review essays on a variety of topics is included: the quantity theory of money; the Ricardian epistemological tradition; the history of corporate finance; economics and anthropology; Joseph A. Schumpter; economic dynamics; economics and ethics; the history of time series analysis in economics; and Alfred Marshall's correspondence.

Supplement 8 contains an archival collection of Selig Perlman's eminent history of the labor movement, pertaining to Institutional Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Included are: Notes from students in Perlman's classes in American Labor History, and Capitalism and Socialism; Six previously unpublished chapters written by Perlman for a revision of his "History of Trade Unions"; Correspondence between Perlman and John R. Commons; and several personal documents of Perlman's.

Supplement 9 contains bibliographical and archival materials pertaining to two eminent American economists: "The Finding Guide to the Frank H. Knight papers at the University of Chicago" and, a complete annotated bibliography of the writings of Frank H. Knight, assembled and edited by Ross B. Emmett. Also included is a bibliography to references for Thorstein Veblen works for the period 1983-1996, assembled by Solidell Wasser and Felicity Wasser.

This newly discovered correspondence from Clark to Giddings covers the entire period from their first acquaintance in 1886 to Giddings' death in 1931. However, the vast majority of nearly 280 letters and notes is concentrated within the years 1886-1895 when the most important development of Clark's economic thought as a theoretical economist was accomplished. During this period Clark achieved the formation of his marginal productivity theory of distribution, and a new theory of capital and interest in particular. This also represents one of the most epoch-making periods of the marginal revolution in the United States, in which Clark was playing a leading role. In this period American modern economics began to be established in the history of economic thought.

This volume examines topics in the discourse and methodology of economics, focusing on the types of metaphor, the use of mathematics, and the "Economics of..." literature. Other articles deal with some continuities between Adam Smith and Max Weber, and pre-Keynesian heterodoxy in macro-monetary dynamics. A special section presents multiple reviews of books by Yuval Yonay and Perry Mehrling on American economic thought during the inter-war period. Also included are reviews covering topics such as Classical political economy, Marx, communitarianism, Scholasticism, Hume's political ideas, and rational expectations.

The archival collection has two parts. The first presents correspondence between the American economist, Alfred S. Eichner, and the English economist, Joan Robinson, and related documents. The correspondents were major contributors to Post Keynesian economics in terms of both ideas and creating self-consciousness. The second presents hitherto unpublished correspondence and documents pertaining to the nature, rise and limits of quantitative methodology in economics. The materials are from Wesley C. Mitchell, Henry Schultz, and Arthur F. Burns. They examine many issues that remain in contention today.

Edward Everett Hale was a leading member of the institutionalist group at the University of Texas. More radical than his better known colleague, Clarence E. Ayres, Hale influenced many students - originally through his lectures rather than his publications, which were few in number. This collection assembles materials on Hale, unpublished writings by him, and sets of lecture notes from his courses.

In addition to two sets of multiple reviews plus thirteen single reviews, this work includes three articles on the history of economic thought and one on methodology. The former are articles on the interpretation of Adam Smith, on Irving Fisher, and on certain economic aspects of the work of a literary figure, James Branch Cabell. The former is an article on econometricians' decision making as to choice of method. In addition, an important paper by Wesley Clair Mitchell on the money economy and economic efficiency is published with an interpretive introduction.

Edwin R.A. Seligman was a leading specialist in public finance, as well as the history of economic thought. This volume publishes a set of student notes taken in his famous course in public finance at Columbia University. The lectures cover the history of public revenues, types of public revenues in general and of taxation in particular, public expenditures, public debt, and budget making.

Henry George's political economy has been hailed as one of the great contributions of American social criticism. His writings have, however, invited interpretation in contradictory fashion. Commentaries have used him to uphold laissez-faire social Darwinism allowing for the aggrandizement of money. Some on the left have regarded his ideology as calling for a co-operative commonwealth well beyond the intentions of the single-tax mechanism. And there are those who see him as having, in effect, written a new Declaration of Independence as powerful as that of 1776. Bringing to light his previously unavailable British writings would clear up some misunderstandings and also present the man and his ideas in a fresher historical context.

This work publishes for the first time Richard T. Ely's study of the history of American economic thought. Ely was both a reformer of economics and a leading economist between the 1880's and 1930's. A founder of the American economic association, he himself wrote on a vast number of topics. This history of American economics tells a story that is both straightforward and his own interpretation.

This work contains articles on Adam Smith, Antonio Horta Ororio, John Maynard Keynes, and on methodological, interpretive and policy issues of economic development in Ghana. It also contains review essays on twenty-two new books on the history and methodology of economics.

This work contains seven documents from the history of economics: Four sets of lecture notes taken by Victor E. Smith, two from courses given by William Jaffe at Northwestern University, on general equilibrium theory and on Keynes, from 1938-39, and one from lectures given at the University of Cambridge during 1954-55. It includes two documents from the history of Institutional Economics, one the 1974 Editor's Report on the "Journal of Economic Issues" - on the conflicts then rampant - and the other, an exposition of the past and future of Institutional Economics, both by Warren J. Samuels. It also includes a set of autobiographical notes by the Wisconsin institutionalist, Martin G. Glaeser, and a bibliography of the writings of F.Y. Edgeworth by Alberto Baccini.

Contains four sets of refereed essays. One group includes papers on Harrod and Robertson; Adam Smith; Keynes; Mendeleev; Veblen; and J. M. Clark. The second group has six papers on the historiography of institutional economics during the inter-war period. The third group has two papers on a conference on the status of the status quo. The fourth group has thirteen essays each reviewing one or more recent works.

Contains two groups of archival materials. One group includes lecture notes from courses given at the University of Wisconsin by Edwin E. Witte and Robert Lampman on the economic role of government. The second group includes papers from a conference on the history of 20th century heterodox economics.

Contains two groups of archival materials. The first group includes Edwin Cannan's unsuccessful Cobden Essay; an early critique of economics by Eli Ginzberg; introductory notes on the study of the history of economic thought by Warren Samuels; and a memoir by Jacob Warshaw on Thorstein Veblen. The second group contains lecture notes taken by F. Taylor Ostrander in courses given by David Taggart Clark (Williams College), Redvers Opie (Oxford), and Frank H. Knight (Chicago) on the history of economics.

Volume 23A of this research annual first presents two articles on Adam Smith, one on his use of the concept of the invisible hand, and another on his use of Isaac Newton's methodology; an article on rival conceptions of distribution: in the 20th century; and a set of introductory notes to the study of the history of economic thought. Secondly, the volume presents multiple review essays on a book on the history of institutional economics, and single review essays on a variety of books, including books on causality, economic thought and the making the European monetary union, the Scottish Enlightenment, economic justice and theological values, a dictionary of economic quotations, economic morality, Thomas Reid, policy making, and autobiographical essays by Nobel laureates in economics.

This volume continues publication of the class notes of F. Taylor Ostrander at Williams College, 1929-32. The courses are Principles of Economics, Money and Banking, Public Finance, the Senior Seminar and Review of Political Theory. Also included are two memoranda on Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 and 1945, and a memoir on the founding of the Williams College Liberal Club. This book provides a look into the thinking of leading economists in the 20th century. F. Taylor Ostrander is a very influential economist and the insight gained by his classnotes is extremely valuable.

This volume publishes a wide variety of documents. Included are Notes taken by Henry R. Seager in 1890; Robert Hoxie's Introductory Lecture on the nature of the history of political economy (1916) coupled with an internet discussion on the history of economic thought as the history of error (2005); two law school student papers on John R. Commons' work on law and economics (1926); Edwin R. A. Seligman's Autobiography (1929); Glenn Johnson's notes on Frank H. Knight's University of Chicago course on economic theory (1947) and documents pertaining to Johnson's Michigan State University course on methodology (1947); and the the conclusion of notes from Edwin E. Witte's University of Wisconsin course on government and labor (1955). It compiles hard-to-find documents into one convenient resource. Writings included span more than a century of thought.

This Book Set consists of:*9780762314225 - Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A Research Annual (Part A)*9780762314232 - Documents from the History of Economic Thought (Part B)*9780762314249 - Further Documents from the History of Economic Thought (Part C)"Volume 25-A" has two parts. The first contains journal-like articles that have been refereed in the usual journal peer-review processes. The second contains lengthy commissioned review essays on books within the purview of the interests of the annual. "Volumes 25-B and C" publish archival materials. These materials are for the most part sets of notes from courses at the University of Wisconsin on micro and macro-monetary theory dating from 1954-5; from courses at the University of Chicago during 1947 on the politics of agriculture and 1963-1964 on industrial organization, the theory of the firm and on corporate finance; and from courses at Northwestern University during 1966-1967 on economic theory and on monetary institutions and policies; a faculty seminar at Michigan State University in 1974 on myth, theology and society; a course in U.S. constitutional history at the University of Miami in 1953; and a series of journal entries from courses in institutional and behavioral economics at Michigan State University. Included are notes from two courses given by Nobel laureates, George Stigler and Merton Miller. The series presents review essays, multiple reviews and mini symposia on new-works in this field. The volumes are broad in scope, and the series fills a substantial gap in this field.

The series presents materials in two fields, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, both broadly considered. The main annual volumes present articles comparable to what one would find in a journal, except that long pieces are welcome. Also presented are review essays on new works in the two fields, some of which are multiple reviews; plus occasional mini-symposia. The archival supplements present hitherto unpublished materials - lecture notes, papers, longer manuscripts, correspondence, etc.- of interest in the two fields. The series presents review essays, multiple reviews and mini symposia on new-works in this field. It includes volumes which are broad in scope. The series fills a substantial gap in this field.

Volume 25-B of this title continues the multiple series of class notes with Glenn Johnson's notes from Charles M. Hardin's 1947 course on the politics of agriculture and with Warren Samuels' notes from Charlton Tebeau's 1953 course on United States constitutional history. The major item consists of Allan Schmid's journal entries distributed in connection with his courses on institutional and behavioral economics. The series presents review essays, multiple reviews and mini symposia on new-works in this field. The volumes are broad in scope and fill a substantial gap in this field.

This collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent work in the history of economics and the history of science. Review essays on new publications examine a range of subjects, including: David Hume's political economy; conceptions of economic morality in American thought; Frank Knight and the Austrians on institutions; Friedrich Engels; Austrian views on entrepreneurship; Coase and Pigou on government intervention; Hayek and conservatism; the history of the 'living wage' notion; methodological consideration of economics and econometrics; and, Paul Heyne's essays on economic and ethics.

This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected, Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Noticeable papers include Tom Sowell on 'Observations on Certain Verbal Disputes' and Sam Hollander's extended essay on Samuel Bailey, which adds to his voluminous treatment of the great classical economists. This volume intends to bring much needed attention back onto forgotten economists that shaped economic history.

This volume of "Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology" offers a unique insight into early American economic theory. The notes reproduced in this volume were taken by a student, Maurice Beck Hexter, in 'Economics 11-12', 'Economic Theory', given by Frank William Taussig at Harvard during the academic year 1921-1922. Taken together they represent the height of economic theory being taught in graduate programs in the United States during this period. Accompanying the notes are additional essays on how these notes relate to broader economic thinking of this period, providing a comparison between the Harvard viewpoint and that of previously published presentations of economic theory at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.