Economics Broadly Considered: Essays in Honour of Warren J. Samuels

ISBN-13: 9780415862837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 386 str.

Jeff E. Biddle; John B. Davis; Steven G. Medema

Opis

Warren J. Samuels has been a prominent figure in the study of economics in the twentieth century. This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the areas of economics in which Samuels has made his most important contributions: the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and institutional and post-Keynesian economics. This work is designed to give the reader a sense of the breadth and possibilities of economics. The essays, all published here for the first time, investigate issues such as:

• The institutional structures that shape economic activity and performance.
• The variety of approaches to economic analysis.
• The importance of the history of the discipline both inherently and for the study of economics in the modern age.

With essays from leading scholars, collected and introduced by some of the most eminent authorities in the field, the work is a formidable volume, and one fit to honor one of the most renowned economists of our age.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction  Part II: The History of Economic Thought  1. The Ignored History of the Administrative Tradition: The ‘Mirror for Princes’ Tradition  2. A Quintessential (A historical) tableau economique to Sum Up Pre- and Post-Smith Classical Paradigms  3. Frank Knight as Institutional Economist  4. From Divergence to Convergence: Irving Fisher and John R. Commons as Champions of Monetary Reforms  5. Chamberlin and Oligopoly  6. The Two Phases of Kuznets' Interest in Schumpeter  7. The AEA and the Radical Challenge to American Social Science  Part III: Aspects of Economic Method  8. On the Credentials of Methodological Pluralism  9. Some Practical Aspects of Pluralism in Economics  10. What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us About Historical Actors: Brewing, Betting and Rationality in London, 1822-44  Part IV: The Legal-Economic Nexus  11. Putting the ‘Political’ Back into Political Economy  12. Output Categories for a Comparative Institutional Economics  13. On the Changing Nature of the Public Utility Concept: A Study in the Exercise of Power and the Search for Reform  Part V: Aspects of Institutional and Post-Keynesian Economics  14. The Institutional Economics of Nobel Prize Winners  15. The Social Value Theory of J. Fagg Foster

O autorze

Jeff E. Biddle is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. His research in labor economics and the history of economic thought has been published in such journals as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Labor Economics, and History of Political Economy.
John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University, is editor of the Review of Social Economy and the Routledge series, "Advances in Social Economics."
Steven G. Medema is Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Denver.