Recently added articles from History of Economics Review:
From marketability to flexibility: Pantaleoni's 'impure' theory of money and banking.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Flexibility is the central feature of Maffeo Pantaleoni's analysis of both money and banking. His approach is based on the proposition that the most important function of money and banking is to loosen the real and temporal constraints on production and exchange activities, which ...
Alfred William Flux (1867-1942): a mathematician successfully 'caught' for economics by Marshall.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract: This paper looks at Alfred Flux as a Cambridge mathematician successfully caught for economics by Alfred Marshall, with special reference to the Marshallian qualities he exhibited in some of his economic publications. Following an introduction, the argument is set out in four ...
Marshall vs. Walras on equilibrium and disequilibrium.
Jun 22, 2008; ... Abstract: In this paper I critically analyse the view that John Hicks sought to establish, according to which Walras' and Marshall's approaches to price theory, while differing in scope (that is, general vs. partial analysis), are basically similar in their aims, presuppositions and ...
One hundred years from today.(Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie)(The Nature and Essence of Theoretical Economics)(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Joseph A. Schumpeter. Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie. Berlin: Duncker & Humblodt. 1908 Readers might be a little surprised to find an assessment here of Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie (The Nature and Essence of ...
Dave Clark (1946-2008): a fine historian of economics and early HETSA member.(Obituary)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The history of ideas tends to concentrate on the successful ideas. As a result, ideas which had large followings but which later are considered to be 'cranky', tend to be ignored. (Dave Clark, 'Monetary Cranks', in The New Palgrave. A Dictionary of Economics, London: Macmillan, 1987, ...