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Science and Ceremony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Science and Ceremony

Clarence Edwin Ayres was the leading American institutionalist economist in the post–World War II era. His innovative theories concerning the causes and significance of technological change provided the philosophical framework for that school of economics called institutionalism. In his recognition that the critical economic issues of the future would be the realization of the full economic potential of industrial society and the development of the third world, he was at least twenty years ahead of his time. In addition, Ayres's influence as an economics teacher at the University of Texas at Austin went well beyond the discipline of economics to students of anthropology, psychology, philos...

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Quarter Session Dockets, 1750-1785
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Quarter Session Dockets, 1750-1785

"Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, was created from Lancaster County in 1750 and became the parent county of Bedford (created 1771), Mifflin (created 1789) and Perry (created 1820) counties."--Page vi.

The Institutional Economics of the International Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Institutional Economics of the International Economy

This book is the outgrowth of the editors' conviction that there is a need for a current and comprehensive examination of international economic issues within the framework of institutional economics. The volume covers the most important international topics that institutional economists historically have addressed. We hope that our initiative and necessarily limited choice of subjects will encourage additional applications of institutional economic theory to the international economy. For other economists, the analyses contained in the volume's dozen chapters afford an opportunity to become more aware of the theoretical work and policy recommendations of institutional economists. It may be ...

Institutional Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Institutional Economics

Wendell Gordon presents the philosophy of economic institutionalism clearly and evocatively, in the tradition of the pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey. In Gordon's view, the institutionalism of Veblen and Ayres, the only indigenous American school of economic thought, offered the most hope for understanding and solving the economic problems of the twentieth century. The institutional approach—long known as the Texas School—looks at social order as ongoing process. The effort to explain how our attitudes have developed and how they are changed is central to this approach. Gordon argues that the dynamics of technical change, the institutionalism of behavior norms, human biology, and t...

The Academic Scribblers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

The Academic Scribblers

The Academic Scribblers offers a thoughtful and highly literate summary of modern economic thought. It presents the story of economics through the lives of twelve major modern economists, beginning with Alfred Marshall and concluding with Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman. In a very real sense, this book picks up where Robert Heilbroner's classic The Wordly Philosophers leaves off. Whereas Heilbroner begins with Smith and ends with Joseph Schumpeter, Breit and Ransom bring the story of modern American and British economic theory up to the 1980s. The Academic Scribblers is an elegant summary of modern economic policy debate and an enticement into a happy engagement with the "dismal science" ...

Counterrevolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Counterrevolution

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without a corresponding act of penance. Yet we misunderstand the scope of neoliberal public finance if we assume austerity to be its sole setting. Beyond the zero-sum game of...

Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 733

Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present

This is a survey of the contributions made by modern economic theorists, from Adam Smith and David Hume to those of the present day.

The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

The Sociology and Professionalization of Economics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Coats has made an outstanding contribution to the history of economic thought, economic methodology and the sociology of economics. This unique volume represents a substantial part of his work on the sociology and professionalization of economics.

Fifty Years of Good Reading
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Fifty Years of Good Reading

50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.