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Survival Value and a Robust, Practical, Joyless Individualism: Thomas Nixon Carver, Social Justice, and Eugenics

Fiorito, Luca; Orsi, Cosma - 2016

The aim of this paper is to provide a compressive assessment of Thomas Nixon Carver's thought - from his early formative years in the 1880s to his post WWII career as a journalist and pamphleteer. The main (albeit not exclusive) focus of this paper will be on the theoretical and philosophical...

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The neoclassicals' conundrum: If Adam Smith is the father of economics, it is a bastard child

Valdes Viera, Oscar - 2017

Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...

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Orthodoxer Mainstream und Heterodoxe Alternativen: Eine Analyse der ökonomischen Wissenschaftslandschaft

Quaas, Friedrun - 2014

Die moderne Volkswirtschaftslehre als wissenschaftliche Disziplin ist einerseits durch große Uneinheitlichkeit geprägt, die andererseits selbst in Zeiten der Krise der Theorie anscheinend nicht nachhaltig in ein öffentliches Bewusstsein vordringen konnte. Nach wie vor wird die Ökonomik...

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Pluralismus in der Ökonomik - verpasste Chance, überfälliges Programm oder normalwissenschaftliche Realität?

Quaas, Friedrun - 2020

The pluralism debate in economics that has been going on for two decades has not yet been able to provide an exhaustive answer to the question of how to deal meaningfully with the phenomenon of a real plurality of paradigms, theories and methods in a fragmented scientific community....

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"Too Bad to Be True". Swedish Economists on Keynes's 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919-1929'

Carlson, Benny; Jonung, Lars - 2019

of the German reparations by using his theory of international trade. The famous Keynes-Ohlin discussion laid the …

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The recycling problem in a currency union

Krimpas, G. E. - 2010

The recycling problem is general, and is not confined to a multicurrency setting: whenever there are surplus and deficit units-that is, everywhere-adjustment in real terms can be either upward or downward. The question is, Which? An attempt is made to formulate the problem in terms of the...

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The elephant in the other room

Veneziani, Roberto; Skillman, Gilbert L. - 2024

Fabio Petri's Microeconomics for the Critical Mind (2021) is an impressive tour de force in the field of microeconomic theory. It manifests the author's command of cutting edge analytical tools, concepts, and theoretical approaches both in the mainstream and in the heterodox literature. The book...

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The Pattern of Trade in Seventeenth-Century Mughal India: Towards an Economic Explanation

Lally, Jagjeet - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

trades, and convincing explanations of the persistence of the Indo-Central Asian trade (for example) despite the growing Indo …-European trade from the seventeenth-century. The customs-union model usefully approximates this trading-situation (i.e. the Europeans … the possibility for trade-creation (i.e. due to substitution between otherwise regionally-specialised production …

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News from London: Greek Government Bonds on the London Stock Exchange, 1914-1929

Christodoulaki, Olga; Penzer, Jeremy - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2004

Statistical analysis of Greek sovereign debt denominated in gold and traded on the London Stock Exchange from the outbreak of the First World War until the advent of the Great Depression is employed to explore the way that historical events including political and institutional changes shaped...

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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998

Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

per capita incomes across economies and the spatial advance of free trade. For many economists and historians the two are … linked: the reduction of trade barriers in the post-war world ushered in a new era of globalisation and that globalisation in … then it would represent one of the most important transitions of the twentieth century. Free trade was championed by the …

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