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Book SynopsisIncludes the articles that highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution, minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of the work in the history of economics and the history of science.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Western economic advisers in China, 1900–1949. Monsignor John Ryan on the ethics and economics of minimum wage legislation. History of economics and history of science: A comparative look at recent work in both fields. Clément Juglar on commercial crises: the dictionary articles. Commercial crises (1863/1873). Commercial crises (1891). “Periodic crises”: Clément Juglar between theories of crises and theories of business cycles. David Hume’s Political Economy Hume's philosophical political economywennerlind & Schabas’. Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics Worlds apart?stigum's. Marx’s General Friedrich Engels resuscitatedhunt's. America's Economic Moralists Two schools, one thesis, still no clear answerfrey's. the Living Wage The living wage and the history of economicsstabile's. Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek’s Idea of Spontaneous Order Spontaneous order and the limits of reason and traditionhunt and Mcnamara's. Firms, Strategies and Economic Change Austrian economics meets comparative institutional analysis by way of Frank Knightyu's. the Austrian School Historical perspective and the role of entrepreneurship in austrian economicsde Soto's. Are Economists Basically Immoral? A defense of ethical economicsheyne's. Hunting Causes and Using Them Causal pluralism and the limits of causal analysiscartwright's. the Hesitant Hand Swinging to and fro: Government and market, pigou and coasemedema's. How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark Antitrust law & policy in terms of the legal-economic nexuspitofsky's. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Copyright page. EDITORIAL BOARD. Acknowledgments.
