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The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics / / edited by Malcolm Rutherford



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Titolo: The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics / / edited by Malcolm Rutherford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
Disciplina: 330/.0973
Soggetto topico: Economics - United States - History
Economics - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: RutherfordMalcolm <1948->  
Note generali: 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.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 cost
The 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 reason
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The economic mind in America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-78516-X
0-429-23174-1
1-280-31941-0
0-585-45352-7
0-203-43599-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450931803321
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Serie: Perspectives on the history of economic thought.