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Subject(s)

• Economics—United States—History—Congresses [Browse]
• Economics—History—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Rutherford, Malcolm, 1948- [Browse]

Series

Perspectives on the history of economic thought. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

• "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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

ISBN

• 1-134-78515-1
• 1-134-78516-X
• 0-429-23174-1
• 1-280-31941-0
• 0-585-45352-7
• 0-203-43599-0

OCLC

• 264501408
• 1000425998

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203435991

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