Research in the history of economic thought and methodology . Vol. 37C including a symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 / / symposium edited by Luca Fiorito and Harald Hagemann ; edited by Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall, and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019]; ©2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Methodology; Economic history; Business & Economics - Economics - General; Economic theory & philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): FioritoLuca; HagemannHarald; ScheallScott; SuprinyakCarlos Eduardo
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Research In The History of Economic Thought and Methodology -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. A Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 Edited by Luca Fiorito and Harald Hagemann -- Introduction to a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 -- Reference -- Two Worldly Philosophers: Robert Heilbroner and Adolph Lowe -- Introduction -- Adam Smith -- Joseph Alois Schumpeter -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Heilbroner on Capital and Capitalism (But Overlooking Finance) -- Capital as a System -- Capital and History -- Emergence of Capital -- Only Once in All of History -- Capital as a "Spandrel" -- Components of the Capitalist System -- All Goods and Services Are Fungible, i.e., They Are Marketed and Have Value -- Wage-labor Contract -- Forward-looking MEC Calculation, Uncertainty and Risk, Rate of Profit -- Capital and the Market -- Competition and Self-regulating Adjustment -- The Market Acts as "Selector" and Finances Winners -- Nell's Law of Institutions: "Capital Breeds What it needs" -- Capital and the State -- Rule of Law, Property and Contract -- Limited Representative Government -- Redress of Grievances -- A Quasi-metaphorical Extension of the Concept: Human Capital -- The Question of Real-financial Linkages -- Real-financial Instability -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Robert Heilbroner and Keynesian Public Finance -- Introduction -- A Primer on Government Spending -- From Primer to DD -- The Debt and the Deficit -- Keynes and Others on Public Finance -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Essays -- On Karl Marx's Evolutionary Credentials and the Marx-Mill Intellectual Relationship -- Introduction -- The Evolutionary Theme Elaborated -- Evolutionary Processes within Capitalism. -- The Acquisition of Proletarian Control -- The First Stage of Communism. ; Marx as Laissez-Faire Conservative: The Economic Dimension -- Aspects of Marx's "Revisionism" and Implications for the Implementation of a Proletarian Program -- Speculations regarding Mill's Perception of "Marx" -- Concluding Notes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- I. Works by Marx and Engels -- A. Karl Marx -- B. Frederick Engels -- II. Other Works -- Social Stratification, Hereditarianism, and Eugenics. A Harvard Tale -- The Issue -- Taussig and Carver in the Progressive Era -- From Progressivism to the Interwar Years -- Sorokin's Social Mobility -- Taussig and Joslyn's American Business Leaders -- Carver's Evolving Eugenics -- A Digression: Cecil C. North's Social Differentiation -- A Harvard Tale -- Notes -- Appendix -- Chapter XXII: The Results of the Inquiry and What They Signify -- Carver, Thomas N. 1929. The Economic Test of Fitness. Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment 2(7): 3-7. -- The Economic Test of Fitness -- The British Workman -- A Qualification -- . Occupational Congestion. Birth Control Review 14(7): 198-199. Address deliverer at the Dinner Symposium on Birth Control ... -- Alsberg, Henry G. 1930. An Answer to Professor Carver. Birth Control Review 14(8): 231-232. -- References -- Part III. From the Vault -- "The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages" by Richard A. Musgrave -- Introduction -- Documenting Harvard's Fiscal Policy Seminar and Musgrave's Contribution -- Hansen, Keynes, and the Seminar as Catalyst -- Musgrave and the Fiscal Policy Seminar -- Musgrave as a Historian of Economic Thought -- Conclusions -- Acknowlegments -- References -- The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages -- The Early Setting -- Things We Talked About -- Stagnation -- Light Taxes -- Tax vs. Expenditure Changes -- Social Security -- Public Debt -- Alvin Hansen -- Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume features a symposium celebrating the centenary of the influential economist and historian of economic thought Robert Heilbroner. The volume also features original general-research contributions, as well as a new discovery of material from the archives of Richard A. Musgrave.
• Titolo autorizzato: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
• ISBN: 9781787698710; 1787698718; 9781787698697; 1787698696
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954809103321
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• Serie: Research in the history of economic thought and methodology ; ; v. 37-C. . 0743-4154