Hardbound. This newly discovered correspondence from Clark to Giddings covers the entire period from their first acquaintance in 1886 to Giddings' death in 1931. However, the vast majority of nearly 280 letters and notes is concentrated within the years 1886-1895 when the most important development of Clark's economic thought as a theoretical economist was accomplished. During this period Clark achieved the formation of his marginal productivity theory of distribution, and a new theory of capital and interest in particular. This also represents one of the most epoch-making periods of the...

This volume examines topics in the discourse and methodology of economics, focusing on the types of metaphor, the use of mathematics, and the Economics of... literature. Other articles deal with some continuities between Adam Smith and Max Weber, and pre-Keynesian heterodoxy in macro-monetary dynamics. A special section presents multiple reviews of books by Yuval Yonay and Perry Mehrling on American economic thought during the inter-war period. Also included are reviews covering topics such as Classical political economy, Marx, communitarianism, Scholasticism, Hume's political ideas, and...

Edwin R A Seligman was a leading specialist in public finance, as well as the history of economic thought. This volume publishes a set of student notes taken in his famous course in public finance at Columbia University. The lectures cover the history of public revenues, types of public revenues in general and of taxation in particular, and more.

Contains two groups of archival materials. One group includes lecture notes from courses given at the University of Wisconsin by Edwin E. Witte and Robert Lampman on the economic role of government. The second group includes papers from a conference on the history of 20th century heterodox economics.

This Book Set consists of: *9780762311644 - A Research Annual (Part A) *9780762311651 - Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander (Part B) *9780762311668 - Further University of Wisconsin Material and Further Documents of F. Taylor Ostrander (Part C) This work is a combination of volume 23A, B and C of "Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology."

The archival collection has two parts. The first presents correspondence between the American economist, Alfred S. Eichner, and the English economist, Joan Robinson, and related documents. The correspondents were major contributors to Post Keynesian economics in terms of both ideas and creating self-consciousness. The second presents hitherto unpublished correspondence and documents pertaining to the nature, rise and limits of quantitative methodology in economics. The materials are from Wesley C. Mitchell, Henry Schultz, and Arthur F. Burns. They examine many issues that remain in contention...