The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics / edited by Malcolm Rutherford
- Corporate Author
- History of Economics Society. Conference (1996 : University of British Columbia)
- Published
- New York ; London : Routledge, 1998.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Rutherford, Malcolm, 1948-
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- 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 and 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
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 0585453527 (electronic bk.)
9780585453521 (electronic bk.)
0415133556 (Cloth)
9780415133555 (Cloth)
0203435990 (electronic bk.)
9780203435991 (electronic bk.)
0203744233 (electronic bk.)
9780203744239 (electronic bk.)
9786610319411
6610319413
9781134785162 (e-book ; PDF)
113478516X
9781134785117 (e-book ; Mobi)
1134785119
9781134785155 (e-book ; ePub)
1134785151
9780415756617 (paperback)
0415756618 - Note
- "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. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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