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New Economics and Its History
John B. Davis
Marquette University, [email protected]
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Davis, John B., "New Economics and Its History" (1998). Books by Marquette University Faculty. 131.
http://epublications.marquette.edu/marq_fac-book/131
New Economics
and Its History
Annual Supplement to Volume 29
History of Political Economy
Edited by John B. Davis
Duke University Press
Durham and London 1997
Contents
Introduction 1
John B. Davis
Part 1 The Incursion of Noneconomic Methods into Economics
Machine Dreams: Economic Agents as Cyborgs
Philip Mirowski
Enginering Dynamic Economics
Esther-Mirjam Sent
Lucas and Artificial Worlds
Marcel Boumans
Part 2
13
41
63
Fields and Subdisciplines
A Historical Perspective on the Common Methodological Heritage of
Contemporary Law, Economics, and Organizational Theory 93
S. Todd Lowry
The Trial of Homo Economicus: What Law and Economics Tells Us
about the Development of Economic Imperialism 122
Steven G. Medema
Putting a Different Spin on QALYs: Beyond a Sociological Critique
143
Joshua Cohen
vi
Contents
A History of an Intellectual Arbitrage: The Evolution of Financial
Economics 172
Paul Harrison
Part 3
Social-Contextual Perspectives on How Economists Reason
Methodological Stance and Consumption Theory: A Lesson in
Feminist Methodology 191
Mary L. Hirschfeld
Persuading by the Numbers: The Balance Sheet in Late-Victorian
Financial Journalism 212
Timothy L. Alborn
"What Is Truth" in Capital Theory? Five Stories Relevant to the
Evaluation of Frank H. Knight's Contributions to the Capital
Controversy 231
Ross B. Emmett
Part 4
Dynamics of the Development of Ideas
Economists' Responses to Anomalies: Full-Cost Pricing versus
Preference Reversals 255
Daniel M. Hausman and Philippe Mongin
Responses to Arbitrariness in Contemporary Economics
S. Abu Turab Rizvi
New Economics and Its History: A Pickeringian View
John B. Davis
Contributors
Index
313
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