The role of government in the history of economic thought – Edited by Steven Medema and Peter Boettke

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-445
Author(s):  
michael j. oliver
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
History Of

My Work as a Historian of Economic Thought

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren J. Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Political Economy ◽  
Synergistic Relationship

My work as a historian of economic thought and methodologist has had several dimensions. One comprises a heavy research program. Another involves some major editing projects, several long term. Still another involves a synergistic relationship between my work on the history of economic thought and methodology and on the economic role of government. Another involves my participation in the founding and operation of bothHistory of Political Economyand the History of Economics Society. If all this sounds like a lot of activity, it must be understood that my research and professional activities have been both my vocation and principal avocation. I use the word “work” in the title reluctantly and where others might say “career.” I have never thought of my professional activities as either toil or a career; indeed, I have both engaged in and seen them as a joyful adventure—so much for the theory of the marginal disutility of labor! Especially important has been the continued support of my wife, Sylvia. She has not only understood and supported, albeit sometimes with difficulty, my time-consuming involvement with intellectual work, she has nurtured a wonderful family life.

scholarly journals Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - A.J. Brown, 'Phillips’ Curve', and Economic Networks in the 1950s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth John Button
Keyword(s):  
Phillips Curve ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Wage Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Ordinal Interpretation

This paper is concerned with examining the role of the English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown in the 1950s debate surrounding the wage-change unemployment relationship. While the publication of William (Bill) Phillips’ 1958 paper, and the subsequent moniker of the “Phillips Curve” attracted a wealth of attention, Brown’s book on the subject, The Great Inflation, and his later work on inflation, has received much less. Here the focus is on redressing somewhat this situation by looking at Brown’s work to see how much it predates Phillips’ paper, and what differences there are to it. We also considers this within the changing institutional structure of English economic networks in the 1950s that led to a relatively rapid acceptance of Phillips’ analysis, and in many cases, to a strong, ordinal interpretation of the Phillips Curve that overshadowed Brown’s work.

scholarly journals “Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Economists and Their Travels, or the Time When JFK Sent Douglass North on a Mission to Brazil”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Boianovsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Douglass North

The role of traveling as a source of discovery and development of new ideas has been controversial in the history of economics. Despite their protective attitude toward established theory, economists have traveled widely and gained new insights or asked new questions as a result of their exposition to “other” economic systems, ideas and forms of behavior. That is particularly the case when they travel to new places while their frameworks are in their initial stages or undergoing changes. This essay examines economists’ traveling as a potential source of new hypotheses, from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with a detailed case study of Douglass North’s 1961 travel to Brazil.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1162-1165
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
History Of

Catherine Herfeld of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy reviews “Defending the History of Economic Thought”, by Steven Kates. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the importance of the study of the history of economic thought to the practice of economics. Discusses why to study the history of economic thought; debating the role of the history of economic thought; teaching the history of economic thought; and defending the history of economic thought. Kates is with the School of Economics, Finance, and Marketing at RMIT University.”

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