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  • Allais, Stability, and Liapunov Theory
    Weintraub, E Roy (History of Political Economy, 1991)
    There is a troublesome problem embedded in every discussion of scientific discovery. As the eminent historian of science Thomas S. Kuhn has remarked: To make a discovery is to achieve one of the closest approximations to ...
  • Archiving the History of Economics
    Weintraub, E Roy; Meardon, Prof Stephen; Gayer, Ted; Banzhaf, H. Spencer (Journal of Economic Literature, 1998)
    Archival materials offer a rich source of information for understanding the history of economics. The correspondence, lecture notes, unpublished reports and drafts, and oral histories contained in the archives of prominent ...
  • Joan Robinson's Critique of Equilibrium: An Appraisal
    Weintraub, E Roy (The American Economic Review, 1985)
    Joan Robinson devoted much of her en- ergy to critiquing equilibrium analysis, or what she was accustomed to calling Walras- ian economics. In her various writings she returned again and again to the idea that Walrasian ...
  • John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury: Four Short Talks
    Goodwin, Craufurd; Hoover, Dr Kevin; Weintraub, E Roy; Caldwell, Bruce (SSRN eLibrary, 2009)
    on Keynes in relation to the Bloomsbury Group: I. Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury (Craufurd Goodwin); II. Keynes as Policy Advisor (E. Roy Weintraub); III. Keynes and Economics (Kevin D. Hoover); IV. Keynes and Hayek (Bruce ...
  • Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-Three Nobel Economists, 5th edition
    Weintraub, E Roy (DUKE UNIV PRESS, 2010)
  • Making Up History: A Comment on Pratten
    Weintraub, E Roy (SSRN eLibrary, 2004)
    atten's critique of mathematical formalism in the discipline of economics does not provide an adequate definition of formalism and his use of the term bears little resemblance to common mathematical usage. Furthermore, ...
  • The Microfoundations of Macroeconomics: A Critical Survey
    Weintraub, E Roy (Journal of Economic Literature, 1977)
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  • Misusing History: A Minisymposium
    Weintraub, E Roy (History of Political Economy, 2005)
    Acouple of years ago the editor and associate editors of HOPE attempted to construct an unusual collection of essays by historians of economics. The plan was that the collection would demonstrate to economists that their ...
  • Negotiating at the Boundary: Patinkin vs. Phipps
    Gayer, T.; Weintraub, E Roy (Duke University Press, 2000)
    Economists and mathematiciansthems elvesdo not fully understand the way they have negotiated the more or less rigid boundary that separatestheir disciplines. Scholarsin both fieldsha ve contested the role of mathematicsin ...
  • On the Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium: 1930-1954
    Weintraub, E Roy (Journal of Economic Literature, 1983)
    This paper was conceived in conversations with my colleague Neil B. de Marchi between 1979 and 1981 and born in a seminar we jointly taught at Duke in Spring 1982 with Anthony Brewer (visiting from the University of Bristol). ...
  • Roy F. Harrod and the interwar years
    Weintraub, E Roy (History of Political Economy, 2005)
    They are the saints living among us, these constructors of the historical record: William Barber on Irving Fisher, Donald Moggridge on John Maynard Keynes, Werner Stark on Jeremy Bentham, John Whitaker on Alfred Marshall, ...
  • Stability Theory via Liapunov's Method: A Note on the Contribution of Takuma Yasui
    Weintraub, E Roy (History of Political Economy, 1987)
    The recent paper by D. W. Hands, ‘The role of crucial counterexamples in the growth of economics knowledge: two case studies in the recent history of economic thought,’ is the first serious examination, by a historian- ...
  • Tilting at Imaginary Windmills: A Comment on Tyfield
    Weintraub, E Roy; Giraud, Yann B. (SSRN eLibrary, 2009)
    in the inaugural issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, David Tyfield (2008) used some recent discussions about "meaning finitism" to conclude that the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an ...
  • Trader-commodity parity theorems
    Graham, Daniel; Jennergren, L. P; Peterson, D. W; Weintraub, E Roy (Journal of Economic Theory, 1976)
    Most economists know that given a number of alternative techniques for producing m goods, no more than m techniques need be employed to insure efficient production. Similarly, the optimal solution to a linear programming ...
  • Uncertainty and the Keynesian Revolution
    Weintraub, E Roy (History of Political Economy, 1975)
    In this article I would like to examine one innovation that Keynes introduced into economics with The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, namely, the relationship of uncertainty to investment. In Section ...