Publication Number: 2022-05 Publication Date: Monday, May 2, 2022 The paper offers a view of Geoff Harcourt’s – b. 1931 in Melbourne; d. 2021 in Sydney – life trajectory as an Australian economist educated and active in the Cambridge UK tradition. His main… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2022-04 Publication Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Leontief was and still is one of the most recognized names in economics, inextricably linked to the development of input-output techniques, but throughout his life he remained fiercely… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2022-03 Publication Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on “Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives.” We first reflect on… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2022-02 Publication Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022 The name of Margaret Garritsen de Vries may not be the first that pops into people’s mind when thinking about the International Monetary Fund. It is through her work, as long-… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2022-01 Publication Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Besides their ideas and social networks, émigré intellectuals bring with themselves practices for engagement with intellectual work. This article focuses on one such practice: the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-25 Publication Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 This paper introduces and reproduces a letter to Douglass North asking for support against closing the sociology department at Washington University in St. Louis. read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-24 Publication Date: Monday, December 13, 2021 Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics, published in 1871, is usually regarded as the founding document of the Austrian School of economics. Many of the School’s… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-23 Publication Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021 Though the Chicago school has been the subject of no small amount of research over the past several decades, that scholarship has focused largely on persons, ideas, and influence—… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-22 Publication Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021 This article--designed to give readers unfamiliar with public choice a historical overview and flavor for the kinds of problems considered--is divided into three main sections, “… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-21 Publication Date: Monday, November 1, 2021 Around 50 years ago, Edmund Phelps and Robert Lucas proposed an answer to the question why changes in aggregate nominal spending bring about output and employment effects, instead of… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-20 Publication Date: Thursday, October 7, 2021 This article offers a historical analysis of the contributions of U.S. interwar agricultural economics to the economics of information. Concerned with improving the circulation of… read more about this publication »
Publication Number:2021-19 Publication Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 One of the more striking features of the debate over the Coase theorem is the wide variety of models and theoretical frameworks used to discuss, evaluate, or otherwise analyze Coase’s… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-18 Publication Date: Monday, September 20, 2021 Joan Robinson’s infatuation with Mao’s China remains the most controversial episode of the Cambridge economist’s life. Drawing on the literatures on observation in science and… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-17 Publication Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Robert Lucas’ 1972 article on the neutrality of money represented the first effective challenge to Samuelson’s neoclassical synthesis methodological separation between static… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-16 Publication Date: Thursday, August 12, 2021 Austrian economist Ludwig Mises’s central role in the socialist calculation debates has been consensually acknowledged since the early 1920s. Yet, only recently, Nemeth, O’Neill,… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-15 Publication Date: Monday, August 2, 2021 In recent academic and to some extent public debates, mainstream economics has been accused of excessive mathematization. The rejection of mathematical and other formal methods is… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-14 Publication Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 The present paper revisits the path by which Coase came to set down the result now generally known as the Coase theorem in his 1960 article. I draw on both the published record and… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-13 Publication Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Simon Kuznets was born and educated in Russia and the Soviet Ukraine. He completed his economic education and adopted his research methodology in the United States where Wesley… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-12 Publication Date: Monday, June 14, 2021 In 2022, Cambridge University Press is publishing a 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s "Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital." Avi J. Cohen’s essay addresses… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-11 Publication Date: Monday, June 14, 2021 In 2022, Cambridge University Press is publishing a 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s "Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital." Tiago Mata’s essay is a study… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-10 Publication Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901–1975) to American economics. The correspondence with his former teacher Walter Eucken, the founder of the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-09 Publication Date: Thursday, May 27, 2021 This paper is an attempt to historicize Frank Plumpton Ramsey’s Apostle talks delivered from 1923 to 1925 within the social and political context of the time. In his talks, Ramsey… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-08 Publication Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 The paper discusses Evsey Domar’s role as a link between economics in the West and in Russia. The Russian heritage he brought with him from Harbin (Manchuria) to the US consisted of… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-07 Publication Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 This working paper – like its companion, Caldwell and Klausinger 2021 – grew out of the authors’ joint work on Hayek: A Life 1899–1950 (Caldwell and Klausinger 2022) and it contains… read more about this publication »