Journal ArticleJournal of the History of Economic Thought · December 2022
The following is a transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub about his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub’s early and contin ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
This essay recommends that historians of economics be cautious when using autobiographical materials, especially when those materials can be construed as projecting an individual’s history onto a larger historical narrative. It is not simply a matter that ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the History of Economic Thought · December 2017
Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ engagements with other dis ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of Political Economy · July 27, 2015
In fall 1935, Abraham Wald presented an existence proof for a general equilibrium of exchange model to Karl Menger’s Mathematical Colloquium in Vienna. Due to limited space, the paper could not be printed in the eighth proceedings of the Colloquium (the Er ...
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Journal ArticleScience in Context · January 1, 2014
Argument In the decades following World War II, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest at a conference he ...
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Journal ArticleErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics · June 1, 2009
In the inaugural issue of this journal, David Tyfield (2008) used some recent discussions about "meaning finitism" to conclude that the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an intellectually hopeless basis on which to erect an intelligible study of s ...
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Book · 2007
This collection of essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of economics. ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Affairs · September 1, 2004
Stephen Pratten's critique of mathematical formalism in the discipline of economics does not provide an adequate definition of formalism and his use of the term bears little resemblance to common mathematical usage. Furthermore, Pratten abuses the history ...
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Journal ArticleEuropean Journal of the History of Economic Thought · December 1, 2003
Visualization in economics was common, and in trade theory almost a primary mode of analysis and demonstration from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Why? This paper presents two versions of the gains from trade notion that have come to us in visual f ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Post Keynesian Economics · June 1, 2003
In this paper, the author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Duke University Press, 2002) responds to four papers (from Paul Davidson, Sheila Dow, Donald Katzner, and J. Barkley Rosser Jr.) written for a symposium on his book. In addition to s ...
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Book · May 28, 2002
DIVDiscusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches./div "Roy Weintraub retells the history of twentieth-century economics through a series of engagements--duels of intellect and ... ...
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Book · 2002
In The Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. ...
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Journal ArticleOxford Review of Economic Policy · January 1, 1999
The modern economist looks at a textbook history of nineteeth-century economics and wonders what, for the twentieth century, will correspond to the chapter titles of 'Malthus', 'Ricardo', 'The Mills', 'Marx', and 'The Rise of Marginalism'. Will monetarism ...
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Book · 1992
Drawing on interviews with original members of the game theory community and on the Morgenstern diaries, the first section of the book examines early work in game theory. ...
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Journal ArticleBehavioral Science · January 1, 1983
The stock market is a simple market system. Zeeman's dynamic analysis, using catastrophe theory, of stock prices is shown to be equivalent to a standard economic model in which price movements produce deviation—amplifying feedbacks. Zeeman's catastrophe re ...
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Journal ArticleKyklos · January 1, 1972
Full employment models proliferate in economic journals while excessive unemployment (U. S. and Canada, 1969‐71) troubles some major (and many under‐developed) economies. As in Keynes’ time, the analytic work is often at odds with reality. Patinkin, for ex ...
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