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The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics / edited by Malcolm Rutherford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- History of Economics Society. Conference (1996 : University of British Columbia)
- Series:
- Perspectives on the history of economic thought.
- Perspectives on the history of economic thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--United States--History--Congresses.
- Economics.
- Economics--History--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- 9780429231742
- OCLC:
- 264501408
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