03403oam 2200685I 450 991078381530332120230421043708.01-134-78515-11-134-78516-X0-429-23174-11-280-31941-00-585-45352-70-203-43599-010.4324/9780203435991 (CKB)1000000000254570(EBL)168548(OCoLC)264501408(SSID)ssj0000278915(PQKBManifestationID)11225183(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278915(PQKBWorkID)10259643(PQKB)10319490(MiAaPQ)EBC168548(Au-PeEL)EBL168548(CaPaEBR)ebr10056086(CaONFJC)MIL31941(OCoLC)1000425998(EXLCZ)99100000000025457020180331d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe economic mind in America essays in the history of American economics /edited by Malcolm RutherfordNew York :Routledge,1998.1 online resource (346 p.)Perspectives on the history of economic thoughtSelected papers from the History of Economics Society Conference 1996.Papers from the conference held June 28-July 1, 1996 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.0-415-75661-8 0-415-13355-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; What is American about American economics?; Remarks on ~American-ness~ in American economic thought; What is ~American~ about U.S. economics?; Comment on ~what is American about American economics?~; Irving Fisher as a policy advocate; Social science and the making of social policy: Wesley Mitchell's vision; Vision accomplished: Harold Moulton and Leo Pasvolsky of the Brookings Institution as champions of a new world order; Herbert J.Davenport's transformation of the Austrian theory of value and costThe quest for an ideal index: Irving Fisher and The Making of Index Numbers Frank Knight's position on capital and interest: foundation of the Knight/Hayek/Kaldor debate; Europe in America: Veblen and his Canadian connections; Marshall, Veblen, and the search for an evolutionary economics; Commons versus Veblen on the place of the individual in the social process: a case of methodological divergence; Peirce's economic reasonThis volume demonstrates the variety and creativity of American economics and the links between American economic thought and its non- European context. It contains selected papers from the 1996 History of Economics Society Conference.Perspectives on the history of economic thought.EconomicsUnited StatesHistoryCongressesEconomicsHistoryCongressesEconomicsHistoryEconomicsHistory330/.0973Rutherford Malcolm1948-140555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783815303321The economic mind in America3857484UNINA