Further Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander


Book Description

Presents the class notes of Taylor Ostrander at Williams College, 1929-32. This title covers courses on principles of economics, money and banking, public finance, the senior seminar and the review of political theory. It also includes two memoranda on Franklin Roosevelt, and a memoir on the founding of the Williams College Liberal Club.




Documents from F. Taylor Ostrander at Oxford, John R. Commons' Reasonable Value and Clarence E. Ayres' Last Course


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Describes the graduate career of F.Taylor Ostrander, notable the year spent at Oxford University. This volume also contains two documents important for the history of Institutional Economics, John R. Commons' "Reasonable Value"; and notes from Clarence E. Ayres' final course taught on institutional economics, at the University of Texas.




Documents from Glenn Johnson and F. Taylor Ostrander


Book Description

Consists of documents from Glenn Johnson and F Taylor Ostrander. This title includes notes from lectures by James E Meade on the linking of monetary theory with the pure theory of value; notes from the Socialist Club at the Cafe Verique in Geneva; and, correspondence between Frank H Knight and F Taylor Ostrander.




Documents on and from the History of Economic Thought and Methodology


Book Description

Contains five sets of lectures taken by Glenn Johnson as a doctoral student in economics at the University of Chicago during 1946-7. This volume also includes notes by Mark Ladenson at Northwestern and from a faculty seminar at MSU on comparative method.




Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (Part A, B & C)


Book Description

A collection of refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell.




A Research Annual


Book Description

Includes refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell. This collection covers such topics as Adam Smith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Schumpeter, Janos Kornai, the Chicago School, French econometrics, and financial economics.




Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology


Book Description

A collection that includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. It also includes articles that highlight the work of founding editor Warren J Samuels, American economists' role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic economic methodology.




A Research Annual


Book Description

Contains refereed articles on constrasting relational conceptions of the individual in economics. This book also covers the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's "Prosperity and Depression".




Henry George, The Transatlantic Irish, and their Times


Book Description

The American political economist Henry George devoted his life to the single tax. Virtually forgotten today, his best seller "Progress and Poverty" influenced numerous people in the English-speaking world. His fame and fall were due to a temporary alliance with the American Irish Catholics who were agitating for the land war in Ireland.




Economic Theory by Taussig, Young, and Carver at Harvard


Book Description

Offering insights into early American economic theory, this title includes essays on how the notes relate to broader economic thinking of the period.