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... receive an appointment teaching
economics. In 1899, at the age of 48, Wicksell
passed his law examinations and became a
lecturer in political economy and law at
Uppsala University. His academic career,
understandably, ... marked
a major advance in economics. Pareto was the
first economist to seriously study income
distribution data from around the world. He
was thus a pioneer in this...
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... for
political anarchism.
A second major contribution by Arrow was
to prove mathematically that a general
equilibrium existed. As far back as Walras and
Pareto, and possibly as far back as Quesnay,
economists ... that child #1 prefers
Aladdin to Barney and Barney to Cinderella;
that child #2 prefers Barney to Cinderella and
Cinderella to Aladdin; and that child #3 prefers
Cinderella to...
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... Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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Pressman, Steven
Fifty major economists: ... general, rather
than trade by the East India Company, and he
makes the case that foreign trade enriches a
nation whenever it leads to a trade surplus. Mun
also examines the fa...
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... so
Smith was raised by his mother and by
guardians appointed in his father’s will (Ross
19 95, p. 2).
Although he was a sickly child, Smith had
a great passion for books and was an avid
reader. At age ... would
make tax payments each year arbitrary rather
than certain.
A third principle of taxation was that taxes
should be levied at a time, and in a manner,
that is most convenient f...
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... Given the many important
conceptual and analytical advances he made,
and given the mathematical nature of these
advances, it is surprising that his reputation
has not been much greater. In part, this ... automobiles and could
easily do without Japanese automobiles
(i.e., if our demand for Japanese
automobiles was relatively elastic), while
Japan could not do without American food
and had a...
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... columnist and as an administrator
for a railway company. Finally, his efforts
began to pay off. In 1870 he received a teaching
position with the law faculty of the Lausanne
Academy.
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The notion that different sectors of any
economy are related to each other has a long
history in economics; the idea goes back at
least as far as C...
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... became enraged and called it “an act of
true and real sabotage of Italian finance”
(Kaldor 19 85, p. 618). Mussolini contacted
Sraffa’s father, insisting on a full and complete
retraction. Sraffa ... psychological,
historical, sociological, and cultural factors as
the cause of these changes.
Myrdal was born in 1898 in the village of
Solvarbo, a rural, farming area in central
Sweden. His f...
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... Diane and Lepage,
Laurent, (eds.) Gunnar Myrdal and his Work,
Montreal, Harvest House, 1992
Jackson, Walter A. , Gunnar Myrdal and
America’s Conscience: Social Engineering
and Radical Liberalism, ... President
Eisenhower. Soon after his arrival in
Washington, von Neumann was diagnosed
as having cancer and his health rapidly
deteriorated. Because he attended AEC
meetings in a wheelchair, an...
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... work, and their
practitioners are knowledgeable and skilled in
data gathering and analysis. These other
disciplines can therefore teach economists a
great deal about the use and importance of data
collection ... Sri Lanka, Guyana,
Turkey, Iran, Venezuela, and Ghana).
Kaldor (1 955 ) was opposed to the income
tax for several reasons. First, income does not
adequately measure the ability of...
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... writings have
also had a clear policy slant. He has opposed
all government programs that are obtrusive
to individual decision-making. Friedman
(19 75) has argued against wage and price
controls, against ... predictions
actually be tested against an alternative, null
hypothesis that some factor was not important.
This was to be done by gathering relevant
historical data and then analyzing th...