... deceased. The new
material will also have the advantage of being (a) machine readable and search-
able and (b) having supporting supplementary biographical information avail-
able in a standardized ... pro-
ceeded to his examples from Walras. All of these related either to the genesis of
particular Walrasian ideas in the work of Louis Poinsot, Achille-Nicolas Isnard,
Pau...
... Waterman, deal with the basic
historiographic issues that have generated and are revealed by the many research
styles found in the literature of the history of economic thought.
Research in the ... Historians have followed the ideas of
economists as they passed into and through the hands of – and were often trans-
formed by – popularizers, intellectuals-at-large, l...
... – to restrain inflation. Economic planning was to
apply also to international trade and capital movements. To a very large extent,
the Alternative Economic Strategy represented a restatement and ... 1985. Some of his
advisers advocated decentralization and democratization of decision-making that
went at least as far as anything that had been achieved in Hungary (Aganbegya...
... 326). That Marshall was an inveterate collector
of “facts” was ignored by Cunningham, as were the early chapters of Marshall’s
Principles, devoted as they were to a historical account of economic ... Polit-
ical Economy was the convenient stopgap. (Ashley, 1888, p. 10)
But at Harvard Ashley now spoke of the work of Ingram and Leslie as belong-
ing to the past, that t...
... both by the Chicago school, which reinstated
a free-market approach both to micro- and macro-issues and, surprisingly, also
as a result of the lukewarm acceptance of the mark-up pricing approach ... he argued that the behavioral descriptions
implied in that hypothesis were at variance with the known facts.
The particular theory under attack was the Marshallian–Pigouvia...
... putatively scalar, aggregative magnitudes. Another
explanation that locates the problem in the historian rather than in the data sees
the motive for mathematical exegesis as a desire to confirm and ... account of the same dead economist as “one of the authors of the
Marx–von Neumann model” deserving to be “ranked as high as Walras in the
history of mathematical...
... defined as any
part of the spectrum of learning that can be mathematically formulated. Hence,
just as the queen is the mother of all of the bees in a hive, so mathematics
becomes the “Queen of the ... another Aristotelean thought, namely Aristotle’s distinction between what
is “just-by-law” and what is “just-by-nature.” The latter (“Natural Law”) was
taken to be t...
... Platonic absolutism was shaken to the core.
It was partially salvaged by Eudoxus’ importation from Chaldea of a dialectical
approach to irrationals that became a mathematical image for judicial, ... into a near-mystical formulation
of ideal models. This view of a rational perfectible administration is elaborated
below in the discussion of analysis. The Platonic theor...
... translated into the Arabic
language.
In spite of the significance of the 1964 path-breaking article by Spengler, the
real challenge to the Schumpeterian Great Gap thesis came about as a result of ... Arab-Islamic inappropriate. Writing in Arabic, the
language of theology, the Prophet and the Caliphs until the Ottoman days, and the
medieval international language...
... ideas. As we have
seen, many of them were preoccupied with the importance of trade and payment
balances, defined either as a positive balance of trade theory or as a positive
balance of labor theory. ... “national economist” was the American Alexander Hamilton, the first finance
minister of the USA. At the American Congress in 1790, he presented a “Report
on Manufacture...