The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics
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The economic mind in America : essays in the history of American economics
(Perspectives on the history of economic thought : selected papers from the History of Economics Society Conference)
Routledge, 1998
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Papers from the conference held June 28-July 1, 1996 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
Includes index
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The Economic mind of America examines:
* the concept of 'American' economic thought
* reassessment of pioneering American policy analysts such as Irving Fisher, Wesley Mitchell, Harold Moulton and Leo Paslovsky, as well as the theoretical contributions of Herbert Davenport and Frank Knight
* Thorstein Veblen's institutional economics and an exploration of the influence of Canadian and European economic thought
* analysis of contributions of C. S. Peirce, Alvin Johnson and science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein
* American economists' interests in in issues from 1886-1995.
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