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Book SynopsisResearch in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.
Table of ContentsPART I. A Symposium on Hazel Kyrk's A Theory of Consumption 100 Years after Publication
Chapter 1. Introduction; Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Chapter 2. Hazel Kyrk’s intellectual roots: When First-Generation Home Economists Met the Institutionalist Framework; David Philippy, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Robert W. Dimand
Chapter 3. Hazel Kyrk’s A Theory of Consumption, Veblen’s Business and Industrial Concerns, and W.C. Mitchell’s Essays on Spending and Money: Conceptual Links; Zdravka Todorova
Chapter 4. Hazel Kyrk and her Research on Standards of Consumption; Edith Kuiper
Chapter 5. Hazel Kyrk, the Economics of the Social Relevance of Consumption and John Maynard Keynes’ Consumption Function; Atilio Trezzini
Chapter 6. What should families want? From Hazel Kyrk to Margaret Reid and beyond; Miriam Bankovsky
PART II. Essays
Chapter 7. On the Integration of Institutional Themes and Neoclassical Formalism: Locational Economics as a Case Study in Pragmatic Empiricism; Yue Xiao and Joseph Persky
Chapter 8. Nutter and Buchanan did not turn against tuition grants for segregated schools in 1965: A comment on Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023); Daniel Kuehn
Chapter 9. Response to Kuehn: Buchanan on the rules for public school funding: Additional thoughts; David Levy and Sandra Peart
