Browsing by Author "Weintraub, ER"
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Archiving the History of Economics
(Journal of Economic Literature, 1998-12-01) -
Game Theory and Cold War Rationality: A Review Essay
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-23)This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books "The World the Game Theorists Made" ... -
Joan Robinson's Critique of Equilibrium: An Appraisal
(American Economic Review, 1985-05) -
John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury: Four Short Talks
(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 ... -
Keynes' Employment Function
(History of Political Economy, 1974-05) -
Losing equilibrium: On the existence of Abraham Wald’s fixed-point proof of 1935
(History of Political Economy, 2016-12-01)© 2016 by Duke University Press.In fall 1935, Abraham Wald presented a fixed-point proof of a general equilibrium model to Karl Menger's Mathematical Colloquium in Vienna. Due to limited space, the paper could not be printed ... -
Making up history: A comment on Pratten
(Economic Affairs, 2004-09-01)Stephen Pratten'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, ... -
McCarthyism and the Mathematization of Economics
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2016-02-18)Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ ... -
Misusing history: A minisymposium
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MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2013-06-26)MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. ... -
Negotiating at the boundary: Patinkin vs. Phipps
(History of Political Economy, 2000) -
ON THE EXISTENCE OF A COMPETITIVE-EQUILIBRIUM - 1930-1954
(JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, 1983) -
Paul Samuelson's Historiography: More Wag Than Whig
(History of Political Economy, 2016-06) -
Roy F. Harrod and the interwar years
(History of Political Economy, 2005-03-01) -
Sidney Weintraub and American Post Keynesianism: 1938-1970
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-07-21)Sidney Weintraub (1914-1983) was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Pennsylvania. A distinguished economic theorist (and the author’s father), he was a co-founder of the Journal of Post ... -
Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission's Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2013-05-01)In the decades following WWII, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest ... -
Tilting at Imaginary Windmills: A Comment on Tyfield
(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) ... -
UNCERTAINTY AND KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION
(HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1975)
