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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"History of economic thought"”.
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
This thesis argues for the fundamental importance of the opposition between holistic and reductionistic world-views in economics. Both reductionism and holism may nevertheless underpin laissez-faire policy prescriptions. Scrutiny of the nature of the articulation between micro and macro levels in …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, I demonstrate how the normative foundations of …
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Dissension within the English classical school: an integration of the thought of William F Lloyd
… classical economists than any other group in the history of economic thought. While the bulk of this literature concentrates on the major figures of the period, i.e. Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, and J.S. Mill, there is also a considerable amount of material devoted to the works of a less …
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We All Want to Change the World: How Behavioral Insights Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
<p>The world is in the midst of an unprecedented environmental crisis driven primarily by human behavior. As the world has globalized, countries have developed, and standards of living have improved, global pollution has skyrocketed and has resulted in a wide range of environmentally destructive …
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Three essays in agent-based macroeconomics
The dissertation is aimed at offering an insight into the agent-based methodology and its possible application to the macroeconomic analysis. Relying on this methodology, I deal with three different issues concerning heterogeneity of economic agents, bounded rationality and interaction. …
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Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
… in order to understand the Latin American roots of US social policy, the origins of neoliberalism, and the rise of economists as public intellectuals. By following veterans of the New Deal and Marshall Plan through Colombian reform projects of the 1950s and 1960s and back to the United States in …
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… reform in the early twentieth century from economic and global historical perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji Association (Kanamoji-kai) in not only Japan …
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The Social Market Economy as a Formula for Peace, Prosperity, and Sustainability
… during the interwar period amidst political and economic turmoil. With clear demarcation lines differentiating it from socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, the social market economy became a formula for peace and prosperity for post WWII Germany. Since then, the success of the social market …
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German Economic Thought and the Marxist Critique of Political Economy, 1843-1941
GERMAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND THE MARXIST CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1843-1941 This thesis analyses important episodes in the relationship between Marxist economics and the German economic tradition in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Previous scholars have often viewed the …
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Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter as precursors of economic sociology
… work is designed in order to compare the ideas of two of the twentieth century's most influential economists, Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter. Veblen and Schumpeter's works are analyzed and compared to each other in order to examine fundamental similarities and differences about important …
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Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
This thesis is a history of economic ideas about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of economic thought around politicians and publicists from landed and mercantile communities in southern and western parts of the country, it presents an …
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Finite Earth Visionaries: Economics, Time and Environmental Crisis in the United States, c.1945-1980
The thesis traces the emergence of a discourse of ecological political economy in America during the postwar decades. It explores the work of three economists, Kenneth Boulding, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Herman Daly, and one political theorist, William Ophuls, as they attempted to come to …
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Three Essays on Economic History
This thesis is composed of three essays. The first essay is a history of economic thought study of the ways in which empirically oriented economic historians have attempted to explain the causes of modern economic growth. The contributions of theorists, classical and neoclassical, are well known. …
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Macroeconomics After the Great Recession: Consensus or Conflict?
<p>Unlike microeconomics where there are relatively few disagreements, the field of macroeconomics has always been the arena of several competing theories. Despite that history of conflict, in the late 1980s during the Great Moderation, the New Classicals and the New Keynesians reached an …
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The Size of the Multiplier: Comparing Alternate Views After the Great Recession
… spending, its effectiveness, the implied size of the multiplier and how they differed in empirical studies. This is followed by an estimation of the government multiplier for the major U.S. fiscal policy, namely the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), after the Great Recession of …
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What we see through the scarcity lens
Economics today faces intense criticism for its supposedly flawed foundations and empirical failings. A popular strategy used to rebut these criticisms is to more tightly circumscribe the explanatory aims of the subject. Economists are, on this view, only trying to describe a specific part of the …
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Η ΚΡΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1929 ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΛΟΓΟΙ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΣΚΕΨΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ
THE FIRST PART OF THIS DISSERTATION IS DEVOTED TO AN ANALYSIS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD WITH EMPHASIS LAID ON TO FLUCTUATIONS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. THE CRISIS OF 1929-32 SERVES AS A STARTING POINT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GREEK ECONOMIC THOUGHT. THE SECOND PART STARTS WITH AN …
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The Monetary Theory and Practice of the Federal Reserve, 1914–35
… System (Fed; System) has been home to some of the world’s best minds in law, statistics, economics, and public policy. The collective impact of these individuals has not only influenced the lives of millions in the US, but of billions around the world. There are few institutions that rival …