Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This work contains seven documents from the history of economics: Four sets of lecture notes taken by Victor E. Smith, two from courses given by William Jaffe at Northwestern University, on general equilibrium theory and on Keynes, from 1938-39, and one from lectures given at the University of Cambridge during 1954-55. It includes two documents from the history of Institutional Economics, one the 1974 Editor's Report on the Journal of Economic Issues - on the conflicts then rampant - and the other, an exposition of the past and future of Institutional Economics, both by Warren J. Samuels. It also includes a set of autobiographical notes by the Wisconsin institutionalist, Martin G. Glaeser, and a bibliography of the writings of F.Y. Edgeworth by Alberto Baccini.
Table of Contents
Victor E. Smith's notes on William Jaffáe's lectures on general equilibrium, 1938-1939 / edited by Warren J. Samuels -- Victor E. Smith's notes on William Jaffáe's seminars on Keynes, Spring 1939 / edited with commentary by Warren J. Samuels -- Victor E. Smith's notes from University of Cambridge lectures, 1954-1955 / edited by Warren J. Samuels -- 1974 editor's report of the Journal of economic issues / Warren J. Samuels -- Journal of economic isues and the present state of heterodox economics / Warren J. Samuels -- Institutional economics: retrospect and prospect, 1968 / Warren J. Samuels -- Martin G. Glaeser's Autobiographical notes / edited by Warren J. Samuels -- Toward a bibliography of Edgeworth's writings / Alberto Baccini.