Elemental Economics

SELECTED READINGS IN

THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT & Other Things

1. Posted

2. Institutionalist Articles available on JSTOR

3. Economics Thought Articles available on JSTOR

4. Evolutionary Economics Articles available on JSTOR

5. Economics of Knowledge Articles available on JSTOR

6. Cultural Economics Articles available on JSTOR

7. Economics of Intellectual Property Rights Articles available on JSTOR

8. Cultural Economics Articles & Other Works by HHC

9. Economics of Knowledge Articles & Other Works by HHC

 

1. Posted

Alder, K., Making Things the Same: Representation, Tolerance and the End of the Ancien Regime in France, Social Studies of Science, 28 (4), Aug. 1998, 499-545.

Barber, W.J., History of Economic Thought, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1967.

Adam Smith and the Framework of Classical Analysis, 23 - 54

Alfred Marshall and the Framework on Neo-Classical Themes,  168 – 197

Economics of Keynes's General Theory, 223 – 252

Blaug, M.,Economic theory in retrospect, Cambridge University Press, 5th Edition, 1996:

Introduction: Has economic theory progressed?, 1-8;

Chapter 17: Methodological Postscript, 689-704

Block, F., “Introduction” to The Great Transformation by Karl Polanvi for a new edition published by Beacon Press, 2001 June 2000.

Boulding, K.E., The Limitations of Mathematics: An Epistemological Critique, Seminar in the Application of Mathematics to the Social Sciences, University of Michigan, December 15, 1955.

Boulding, K.E., The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Economics, American Economic Review, Richard T. Ely Lecture, 56 (1/2) , MarCH 1966, 1-13.

Boulding, Kenneth, E., Economics as a Moral Sciences, American Economic Review, 59 (1), March 1969, 1-12.

Champernowne, D.G., Economic Journal, September 1973, 83 (331), 908-910:

Book Review Epistemics and Economics. A Critique of Economic Doctrines by G. L. S. Shackle, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Chandler, A.D. Jr., Decision Making and Modern Institutional Change, The Journal of Economic History, 33 (1), March, 1973, 1-15.

Chartrand, H.H., Thomas Kuhn's Pelican Brief, Doctoral Research Paper, November 2002.

Commons, J.R., Commercial Revolution - Lecture before Mr. Penman’s Class, July 16, 1920, in Warren J. Samuels (ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Archival Supplement 4, JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1994, 227-233.

Commons, John R., The Legal Foundations of Capitalism  - Chapter VII: The Price Bargain [1924], MacMillan, NYC, 1939.

Commons, Institutional Economics, American Economic Review, 21 (3), December 1931, 648-657.

Commons, J.R., Institutional Economics, American Economic Review, 26 (1), March 1936, 237-249.

Commons, J.R., The Economics of Collective Action: Chapter viii. Futurity, University of Wisconsin Press [1950], Madison, 1970, 104-109.

David, P.A., The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox, American Economic Review, 80 (2), May 1990, 355-36.

Dooley, P.C., The Labour Theory of Value: Economics or Ethics?, Discussion Paper 2002-2. September 2002, ISSN O831-439X, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan.

Dooley, P.C., Hutcheson, Smith, and the Division of Labour, Discussion Paper 2000-3, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan, 2003.

Dudley, L.M., Space, Time, Number: Harold A. Innis As Evolutionary Theorist, Canadian Journal of Economics, 28 (4a), November 1995, 754-769.

The Economist, "Green and pleasant land", The Economist, April 25, 1981, 111.

Book Review: English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850 - 1980 by Martin J. Wiener. CUP, New York, 1981.

The Economist, "Crimes of reason", The Economist, March 16, 1996, 85-87.

Friedman, M., Essays in Positive Economics: Part I - The Methodology of Positive Economics, University of Chicago Press (1953), 1970, 3-43.

Gordon, S., The history and philosophy of social science - Chapter 18: The foundations of science, Routledge, London, 1991.

Hayek, F.A., Economics and Knowledge, Economica, New Series, 4 (13), February 1937, 33-54.

Hayek, F.A., Scientism and the Study of Society: PART I, Economica, New Series, 9 (35), August, 1942, 267-291.

Hayek, F.A., Scientism and the Study of Society: PART II, Economica, New Series, 10 (37), February 1943, 34-63.

Hayek, F.A., Scientism and the Study of Society PART III, Economica, New Series, 11 (41), February 1944, 27-39.

Hayek, F.A., The Use of Knowledge in Society, American Economic Review, 35 (4), September 1945, 519-530.

Hayek, F.A., The Pretence of Knowledge, American Economic Review, 79 (6), December 1989, 3-7.

Houghton, W.B. Jr., The History of Trades: Its Relation to Seventeenth-Century Thought: As Seen in Bacon, Petty, Evelyn, and Boyle, Journal of the History of Ideas, 2 (1), January 1941, 33-60.

Houghton, W.B. Jr., The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century Part I, Journal of the History of Ideas, 3 (1), January 1942, 51-73.

Houghton, W.B. Jr., The English Virtuoso in the Seventeenth Century Part II, Journal of the History of Ideas, 3 (2), April 1942, 190-219.

Houghton, W, B., Victorian Anti-Intellectualism, Journal of the History of Ideas, 13 (3), June 1952, 291-313.

Humphreys, S. C., History, Economics, and Anthropology: The Work of Karl Polanyi, History and Theory, 8 (2), 1969, 165-212.

Keynes, J.M., The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money [1936], Macmillan, London, 1967:

Chapter 12 The State of Long-Term Expectations, 147-164.

Chapter 21: The Theory of Prices, 292-309.

Loasby, B.J., , Hypothesis and Paradigm in the Theory of the Firm, The Economic Journal, Vol. 81, No. 324, Dec., 1971, 863-885.

Merton, R.K., The Fallacy of the Latest Word: The Case of “Pietism and Science”, American Journal of Sociology, 89, (5), March 1984, 1091-1121.

North, D.C. & Thomas, R.P., An Economic Theory of the Growth of the Western World, The Economic History Review, New Series, 23 (1), April 1970, 1-17.

North, D.C., Institutional Change and Economic Development, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 31, Issue 1, The Tasks of Economic History, Mar. 1971, 118-125.

North, D.C., Beyond the New Economic History, The Journal of Economic History, Volume 34, Issue 1, The Tasks of Economic History, Mar. 1974, 1-7.

North, D.C., Institutions, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (1), Winter, 1991, 97-112.

North, D. C., Economic Performance Through Time, American Economic Review, 84 (3), June 1994, 359-368.

Parker, R., Can Economists Save Economics?, The American Prospect, 4 (13), March 21, 1993.

Polak, F.L., Prognostics: A Science in the Making Surveys and Creates the Future , Elsevier, London, 1971

Chapter 2: Prenatalia

Chapter 3: Theological models of the future

Chapter 4: Philosophical models of the future

Chapter 5:  Historico-philosophical and historico-scientific models of the future

Chapter 6: Historical models of the future translated into coercively prescribed graphical models

Chapter 7: Scientific models of the future

Chapter 8: Socio-scientific models of the future

Raffaelli, T., Marshall's Analysis of the Human Mind, in Warren J. Samuels (ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Archival Supplement 4, JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1994, 57-93.

Romer, P.M., Why, Indeed, in America? Theory, History, and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth, American Economic Review, 86 (2), May 1996, 202-206.

Rosenberg, N., Some Institutional Aspects of the Wealth of Nations, Journal of Political Economy, 68 (6), December 1960, 557-570.

Rosenberg, N., Adam Smith, Consumer Tastes, and Economic Growth, Journal of Political Economy, 76 (3), May - June 1968, 361-374.

Rosenberg, N., Karl Marx on the Economic Role of Science, Journal of Political Economy, 82 (4), July-Aug. 1974, 713-728

Rosenberg, N., Science, Invention and Economic Growth, Economic Journal, 84 (333), March 1974, 90-108.

Rosenberg, N., Adam Smith on Profits--Paradox Lost and Regained, Journal of Political Economy, 82 (6), Nov. - Dec. 1974, 1177-1190.

Rosenberg, N., On Technological Expectations, Economic Journal, 86 (343), September 1976, 523-535.

Rosenberg N. &  Steinmueller W.E., Why are Americans Such Poor Imitators?, American Economic Review, 78 (2), May 1988, 229-234.

Rosenberg, N., Exploring the Black Box: Technology, economics and history, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. 1994:

1 Path-dependent aspects of technological change, 1-6

2 Charles Babbage: pioneer economist, 24-46

3 Joseph Schumpeter: radical economist, 47-61

8 Critical issues in science policy research, 139-158

13 Scientific instrumentation and university research, 250-263.

Rothschild, E., Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment, , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001:

Chapter 4: Apprenticeship and Insecurity, Text 87-115, Notes 283-288

Chapter 5: The Bloody and Invisible Hand, Text 116-156, Notes 288-316

Ryan, Alan, A New Vision of Liberty The New York Review of Books, July 5, 2001, 42-45:

Book Review: Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild., Harvard University Press, 2001.

Samuels,W.J., The Physiocratic Theory of Property and State, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 75(1), February 1961, 96-111.

Samuels, W.J., The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 76(1), February 1962, 145-162.

Samuels, W.J., The Political Economy of Adam Smith, Ethics, 87 (3), April 1977, 189-207.

Schlicht, E., On Custom in the Economy, Introduction, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1998, 1-8.

Schlicht, E., On Custom in the Economy, Chapter 14: The Division of Labour , Oxford Clarendon Press, 1998, 242-265.

Schlicht, E., Aestheticism in the Theory of Custom, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 70 (1), March 2000, 33-51.

Schumpeter, J.A., Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 3rd ed., [1950], Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1962:

Chapter VII - The Process of Creative Destruction

Chapter VIII - Monopolistic Practices.

Schumpeter, J.A., History of Economic Analysis [1954], Oxford University Press (7th printing) 1968:

Chapter 1: Introduction and Plan

Chapter 2: Interlude I: The Techniques of Economic Analysis

Shackle, G.L.S., The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926-1939, Cambridge at the University Press, 1967:

Chapter 11 - To the 'QJE' from Chapter 12 of the "General Theory': Keynes's Ultimate Meaning.

Screpanti E. & Zamagni S., An outline of the history of economic thought, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2005

Introduction

Chapter  5: The Triumph of Utilitarianism and the Marginalist Revolution, 163-173

Taylor, O. H., Economics and the Idea of Natural Laws, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 44 (1), November 1929, 1-39.

Taylor, O. H., Economics and the Idea of Jus Naturale, Quarterly Journal of Economic, 44 (2), February 1930, 205-241.

Thompson, H.F., Adam Smith's Philosophy of Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 79 (2), 1965, 212-233.

West, E.G., Property Rights in the History of Economic Thought: From Locke to J. S. Mill, Carleton Economic Papers, 2001-01, Carleton University.

Young, A.A., Increasing Returns and Economic Progress, Economic Journal, 38 (152), December 1928, 527-542.