03420nam 2200697Ia 450 991081595740332120200520144314.01-134-78515-11-134-78516-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)99100000000025457019970709d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe economic mind in America essays in the history of American economics /edited by Malcolm Rutherford1st ed.London Routledge19981 online resource (346 p.)Perspectives on the history of economic thought"Selected 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 Malcolm1948-140555MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815957403321The economic mind in America3992868UNINA