Abstract This essay reviews Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, which triggered a huge controversy that virally …
The marginalist revolution of the late nineteenth century consolidated what Karl Marx and Piero Sraffa called 'vulgar economy', bringing with it an emphasis on a scarcity theory that …
A study of the political theory that underlies the conservative economic thought of such economists as Milton Friedman, James Buchanan and Friedrich Hayek, and its implications …
M Johnson - Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2014 - cambridge.org
This paper examines James Buchanan's earliest writings within the context of post-WWII public finance theory and his education at Chicago. Public choice scholars have long …
We present a short history of the Virginia School of Political Economy in its institutional settings of University of Virginia (UVA), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or …
P Lewis, M Dold - Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Historians of economic thought are paying greater attention to issues of social ontology (ie to the assumptions that economists make about the nature of social reality). We contribute to …
In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, TR Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, JS Mill, Karl …
TD Boston - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1868, and died in Ghana in 1963. He was a charter member of the NAACP, founder of the Pan …