The systematic emergence of the test approach to index numbers took place in the early
1920s, a period marked by pluralism in American economics. Promoted by Irving Fisher, the …

ABSTRACT In memory of Maurice Kleman: Over the last half century, Maurice Kleman was
the High Priest of the science of defects in condensed matter. I discuss some aspects of the …

Economics is typically a quantitative science, which exclusively relies on mathematical
techniques, statistical analysis, experimental work, and neglects qualitative evidence, data …

The question of industrial or organizational democracy dates back about a century,
assuming dif‑ferent aspects and names over time. The last 20 years have even seen a new …

In this dissertation work, I present a broad historical account of how the calculus of variations
was applied in economics in the 1920s up until the 1940s. In the interwar period …

Unification of natural science and social science is a centuries-old, unmitigated debate.
Natural science has a chronological advantage over social science because the latter took …

Neste trabalho de dissertaçao, apresento uma história geral de como o cálculo variacional
foi aplicado na economia no perıodo dos anos 1920 até 1940. Durante o perıodo do …