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1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations |
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Perspectives on the history of economic thought |
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Perspectives on the history of economic thought.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; What is American about American economics?; Remarks on ̃American-ness̃ in American economic thought; What is ̃Americañ 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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
"Selected papers from the History of Economics Society Conference 1996." |
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Papers from the conference held June 28-July 1, 1996 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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Economics -- History -- Congresses
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Economics -- United States -- History -- Congresses
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Economics -- History -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economics
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rutherford, Malcolm, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0585453527 |
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9780585453521 |
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0415133556 |
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9780415133555 |
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0203435990 |
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9780203435991 |
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0203744233 |
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9780203744239 |
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9786610319411 |
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6610319413 |
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9781134785162 |
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113478516X |
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9781134785117 |
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1134785119 |
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9781134785155 |
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1134785151 |
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9780415756617 |
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0415756618 |
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