Pub Date : 1997-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10427719700000017
Anthony A Brewer
Despite their differences on other questions, Hume and Steuart had almost identical theories of long-run economic development. In their story, agriculture can produce a surplus of food to support urban manufacturing (and other things), but will not do so unless farmers want to trade the surplus for something. In the early stages of development, the absence of attractive manufactured goods gives no incentive to farmers. Once a taste for 'luxury' emerges, normally stimulated by imports from elsewhere, agriculture and industry expand together. Developments is driven by changing tastes combined with a changing menu of goods on offer.
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Pub Date : 1997-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10427719700000022
N. Bellanca, M. Guidi
The international community of historians of economic thought is not essentially divided between 'absolutists' and 'relativists', or between 'continuists' and 'discontinuists Rather it is the specific content of the metier d'historien which makes the difference. This paper aims at highlighting and systematizing the features characterizing the work of innovative historians. Some of these features are represented by analyses concerning: 1 the intersections between pre-theoretical categories; 2 enunciative homogeneities/heterogeneities; 3 the formation and decomposition of social knowledge; 4 schools of thought These different research practices are then unified under the common label of 'uckronies' (possible albeit non-arbitrary histories). Lastly, some implications of this interpretation are examined. One of them is particularly important: i. e. the irreducible ambiguity of the historian of economic thought vis-a-vis the economist. On the one hand, the former may hermeneutically discover new and valuable ideas from an intellectual viewpoint, but, on the other hand, the ways in which these ideas can enrich economic theory are absolutely uncertain. This ambivalence, together with the 'scandalous' trans-disciplinarity of the concepts and instruments employed by the historian of economic thought, may explain the diffidence of the economists towards the new tendencies of historiography.
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Pub Date : 1997-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10427719700000018
Hyunhee Song
This article as a sequel to Song (1995), 'Adam Smith as an early pioneer of institutional individualism', aims to depict what Smith's conception of social relations of production looks like, and draws a tentative conclusion that when grasped in the whole context of Smith's system of social thought, it is neither neoclassical nor Marxian orthodoxy, but can be better appreciated as suggesting an independent - Smithian - perspective. Then, an exploratory claim is submitted to show that Smith's view of class and power relations is found to bear striking affinities with that of Max Weber, the great German sociologist.
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Pub Date : 1996-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10427719600000041
John B. Dauis
This paper examines the intellectual influences of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Maynard Keynes upon one another. It focuses on their later philosophical thinking, and argues for a number of convergences in their news. First discussed are their respective doubu about their early views, developedin early twentieth century Cambridge. Their later philosophical positions are represented as a shared reaction to problems in their early new. Attention is given to conventions and language-games, rules and social practices. average expectation and family resemblance, and intersubjectivity and private language. The paper closes with commenrs on the climate of thought in Cambridge in the 1930s.
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538568
N. Marchi
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538570
Alessandro Roncaglia
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538575
M. Boianovsky
Abstract The article investigates Knut Wicksell's interpretation of aggregate economic fluctuations. It is shown that Wicksell described the business cycle as oscillations of an economy with increasing population and scarce natural resources around its steady growth path ('dynamic equilibrium'), provoked by sporadic technological progress. The ‘shocks’ bring about a wave‐like motion because of psychological and technical lags in the economic structure. Wicksell's suggestion that excess net savings in the depression take the form of stocks of commodities is compared to his contemporaries’ answers to the question ‘What happens to savings during the depression?’ The article also puts forward a relatively neglected connection between Malthus’ and Wicksell's notions of over‐production. Divergences between the natural and market rates of interest — essential to his better‐known ‘cumulative process’ ‐ are not a necessary part of Wicksell's business cycle, but they are important to explain why the upper turning‐p...
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538577
A. Jolink
Abstract In the history of economic theory, Harrod's transition from the explanation of business cycles in An Essay on the Trade Cycle (1936) to his well‐known growth theory in ‘An essay in dynamic theory’ (1939) has always been surrounded by some degree of speculation. One of the topics in that area of speculation concerns the (degree of) influence exerted by Tinbergen on the development of Harrod's growth theory during the 1936–9 period. This paper argues that Tinbergen's influence on Harrod's work mainly took place on formal, mathematical, grounds, leaving methodological matters untouched. This matter is of some importance in understanding the success of what was initially considered by others as a ‘dynamic’ extension of the Keynesian research programme and later evolved, through the work of Tinbergen and Solow, into a neoclassical growth theory.
在经济理论史上，哈罗德从1936年的《贸易周期论》(An Essay on the Trade Cycle)中对商业周期的解释，到1939年的《动态理论》(An Essay In dynamic theory)中著名的增长理论，一直被某种程度的猜测所包围。该领域的一个话题是关于1936年至1939年期间丁伯根对哈罗德增长理论发展的影响程度。本文认为，丁伯根对哈罗德工作的影响主要发生在形式的、数学的基础上，而没有触及方法论问题。这个问题对于理解凯恩斯主义研究计划最初被其他人视为“动态”扩展，后来通过丁伯根和索洛的工作演变成新古典增长理论的成功具有一定的重要性。
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538569
Philip Mirowski
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Pub Date : 1995-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09672569508538574
M. Donoghue
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