Publication Number: 2026-05 Publication Date: August 2026 This paper investigates the historical relationship between Wassily Leontief’s input-output analysis and postwar development planning from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. Based on… read more about this publication »
Publication Number 2026-04 Publication Date: May 2026 Development economics emerged as a field in the 1950s and early 1960s, and in its earliest instantiation it was dubbed "Modernization Theory." If one looks at his published work, it would appear that… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2026-03 Publication Date: May 2026 Law and economics—or the application of economic reasoning and methods to the study of law—was a niche topic of study at Chicago and Yale in 1950s and 1960s, before coming out of the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2026-02 Publication Date: April 2026 Just as backwards design starts with course learning objectives before planning assessments, content and teaching activities, narrative engagement by design imagines how to… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2026-01 Publication Date: March 2026 This article reexamines the contexts in which Arrow’s Social Choice and Individual Values (1951) emerged, clarifying the often acknowledged yet unexplained influence of Theory of Games and… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-10 Publication Date: October, 2025 Frank Ramsey is often portrayed as a British thinker immersed in theoretical problems in philosophy, mathematics, and economics. However, as Cheryl Misak (2020) shows, he was also preoccupied… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-05 Publication Date: Revised September 2025 This article explores the career of American economist Robert Dorfman (1916-2002), that can be divided into three distinct phases. During the first phase (1938-1958), he made… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-09 Publication Date: August, 2025 This paper challenges the prevailing narrative that mathematical economics, particularly in the post-war era, neglected the study of social institutions. According to the common view, the concept… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-08 Publication Date: July, 2025 Early on Sunday morning, February 20, 1955, Friedrich Hayek and his wife Helene arrived at the airport in Cairo, Egypt, where he was greeted by the Director of Research of the National Bank of Egypt… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-07 Publication Date: June, 2025 This work identifies the intellectual influences that supported Hayek’s computational perspective as well as recognition that Hayek received from computational theorists in the decades following the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-06 Publication Date: May, 2025This paper traces the evolution of the concept of equilibrium in political science from the 1920s to the 1990s, arguing that despite apparent methodological ruptures—from behavioralism to rational choice… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-05 Publication Date: March 2025 This article examines the career of American economist Robert Dorfman (1916–2002), marked by pioneering work on linear programming in the 1950s, interdisciplinary research on water management in… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-04 Publication Date: March 2025 This article examines the functions of book reviews in economics. Since most book reviews provide a description, an analysis, and an appraisal of a book’s content, their first function is to… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-03 Publication Date: January 2025 This article identifies the two approaches to defining a book review. The first defines a book review as a text published in the ‘Book Reviews’ section of a journal. The second approach… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-02 Publication Date: Updated March 2025 Walter Andrew Shewhart is regarded as the founder of Statistical QualityControl (SQC), an approach to production inspection based on the application ofstatistical theory. He developed SQC… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2025-01Publication Date: January 2025 In welfare economics, the theory of second best is inextricably linked to anarticle by Richard George Lipsey and Kelvin John Lancaster, published in 1956 in theReview of Economic Studies. The… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-12 Publication Date: December 2024 This article examines George Christopher Archibald’s contributions to monopolistic competition theory, which he approached from multiple perspectives throughout his career. In the 1950s,… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-11 Publication Date: November 2024 We trace the origins of the definition of the “quality variable” used in the theory ofproduct differentiation, which states that quality is unanimously appreciated byconsumers, entails a higher… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-10 Publication Date: November 2024 I argue that the outbreak of the Great War facilitated a shift in the dominant view of humannature within the Cambridge-Bloomsbury intelligentsia, steering it away from an optimistic viewtoward a… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-09 Publication Date: October 2024 We argue in this article that constant-quality models like the one used to derive the Alchian-Allen effect are of very limited use in the analysis of the regulation of repugnant goods (morally… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-08 Publication Date: September 2024 This article examines the role of the nomenclature assumption in demand theory, defined as the assumption that the choice set available to economic agents is considered as given, without… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-07 Publication Date: September 2024 Money-doctors played a crucial role in establishing and advising central banks in underdeveloped countries in the 20th century. However, the Bretton Woods order transformed the doctors’… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-06 Publication Date: September 2024 The Federal Reserve is commonly depicted as an institution set up by domestic actors to fulfill domestic functions that only later took on international and geopolitical dimensions. Yet we have… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2024-05 Publication Date: September 2024 In demand theory, the “characteristics approach” refers to situations where goods are described according to their characteristics. This approach is often contrasted with the “goods are goods”… read more about this publication »