Economics In America Research Articles

Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

Joseph P. Ferrie of Northwestern University and NBER reviews “Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality” by Angus Deaton. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the positives and negatives of economics as both a science and a profession, presenting insights from the author's personal experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist.”

The crippling financial toxicity of cancer in the United States

ABSTRACTThe financial cost of cancer treatment in the United States is astronomically high and is expected to rise. The economic burden of cancer care increasingly falls on the patients. Patients thus experience “financial toxicity” of cancer care that can have catastrophic consequences on health and quality of life. Here we examine the results reported by Gilligan et al. in their study of financial toxicity in US cancer patients over 50 years old. This study provided corroborating and compelling data about the financial toxicity experienced by cancer patients. Many questions remain, however, about the consequences of financial toxicity and the full reality of cancer care economics in America.

Edwin B. Wilson and the Rise of Mathematical Economics in America, 1920–40

In this article, Edwin B. Wilson’s influence on the rise of mathematical economics in America between the 1920s and 1940s is explored. The focus is laid on showing how, based on his foundational ideas about science, Wilson worked at the organizational and educational fronts to modernize economics, and this at three levels. First, the paper shows the ways in which around 1930 Wilson was key, at the nationwide level, in the constitution of the first organized community of American mathematical economists, which he established within the well-recognized scientific community of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Along the way, the article traces Wilson’s crucial role in the origins of the Econometric Society and sheds new light on the constitution of the econometric movement. Second, the article reconstructs Wilson’s leadership in promoting and establishing the first program in advanced mathematical and statistical economics at the more local level of Cambridge and Harvard. Wilson offered two courses to economists, mathematical economics and mathematical statistics, in which he respectively taught Gibbs’s thermodynamics systems and numerical mathematics and analytical statistics. In his courses, willing to interconnect Vilfredo Pareto’s and Wesley Mitchell’s economics, Wilson emphasized that a sound scientific attitude required connecting economics with data, if only in idealized conditions. Finally, the paper argues that Wilson’s lasting influence in economics took shape at a more personal level, through his influence on Paul Samuelson, one of his students at Harvard. Samuelson wrote his dissertation (1940) and subsequently Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) in a Wilsonian style.

Edwin B. Wilson and the Rise of Mathematical Economics in America, 1920-1940

In the paper, Edwin B. Wilson’s influence on the rise of mathematical economics in America between the 1920s and 1940s is explored. The focus is laid on showing how on the grounds of his foundational ideas about science Wilson worked at the organizational and educational fronts to modernize economics, at this at three levels. First, the paper shows the ways in which around 1930 Wilson was key, at the nationwide level, in the constitution of the first organized community of American mathematical economists, which he established within the well-recognized scientific community of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the way, the paper traces Wilson’s crucial role in the origins of the Econometric Society and bears new lights on the constitution of the econometric movement. Second, the paper reconstructs Wilson’s leadership in promoting and establishing the first program in advanced mathematical and statistical economics at the more local level of Cambridge at Harvard. He offered two courses to economists, Mathematical Economics and Mathematical Statistics, in which he respectively taught Gibbs’s thermodynamics systems and numerical mathematics and analytical statistics. In his courses, willing to interconnect Viflredo Pareto’s and Wesley Mitchell’s economics, Wilson emphasized that a sound scientific attitude required connecting economics with data, if only in idealized conditions. Finally, the paper argues that Wilson’s lasting influence in economics took shape at a more personal level, through his influence on Paul Samuelson, one of his students at Harvard. Samuelson wrote his thesis (1940) and subsequently Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) in a Wilsonian style.

The History, Geography, and Economics of America’s Early Computer Clusters, Part 2: Explanations

This article is the second part of a comprehensive study on the rise of America’s early computer clusters from the perspective of evolutionary economic geography. That is, we attempt to identify the historical processes that led to the formation of the early clusters of computer production in the United States. Here we explore explanations for the genesis of the agglomerations identified in part 1. We suggest that the clusters we observe in the early 1970s arose from the locational decisions of three waves of companies: the computer start-ups of the late 1940s and early 1950s, the large conglomerates that entered the computer industry during the 1950s, and the minicomputer and peripheral-making companies that entered later on. We argue that a combination of preexisting conditions and Marshallian externalities generated the clustering patterns for computer production we observe in the early 1970s.

Grupos estratégicos de investigación en escuelas de negocios y su relación con el desempeño: el caso de Chile

La presente investigación contextualiza cómo los mercados de educación superior se caracterizan por ser altamente competitivos. Esta situación se observa especialmente en las escuelas de negocios, las cuales toman decisiones que se enfocan en la creación de una imagen de reputación académica; por ejemplo, invertir recursos en investigación para ganar posiciones de liderazgo a nivel nacional e internacional. Aun cuando las escuelas de negocios ofrecen programas de estudios con un alto enfoque práctico y profesional, las actividades de investigación les permiten desarrollar conocimiento y vincularsecon los sectores privado y público. En este contexto, y recurriendo a la teoría degrupos estratégicos para estudiar su comportamiento en investigación, se consideraron las escuelas de negocios chilenas que aparecen en el ranking MBA de América Economía.Los resultados permiten identificar cuatros grupos estratégicos de investigación, de acuerdo con las decisiones que adoptan las escuelas de negocios en producción académica, equipo de investigación y difusión académica. Finalmente, se describe cómo la inversión realizada por las escuelas de negocios en fuentes de investigación tienen impacto en los indicadores de desempeño organizacional, tales como: acreditación internacional, posición en ranking de calidad y arancel de los programas de MBA.

Pioneering consumer economist: Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt (1893‐1980)

PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to the project of recognising the contribution of female scholars to the development of marketing thought. The paper presents a biography of Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt, a home economist, who contributed to the shaping of contemporary ideas about consumption and the consumer.Design/methodology/approachSource material used includes the Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt Papers (1884‐2009) in the Iowa State University Archives. The collection contains a variety of materials, of which the most important for this paper were news clippings, personal diaries (1907‐1918), and published and unpublished manuscripts (1953, 1964, n.d.). Also important for this study were two sources published by Alison Comish Thorne, Elizabeth Hoyt's PhD student. These include Thorne's autobiography Leave the Dishes in the Sink and her entry on Elizabeth Hoyt in the Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists.FindingsThe paper documents Elizabeth Hoyt's development of marketing thought, focusing on her early work on the cost of living index and subsequent contributions to an expanded theory of consumption and consumer learning.Originality/valueElizabeth Hoyt is one of a group of female home economists who pioneered consumption economics in America in the 1920s and 1930s yet who have been neglected in published accounts. Notwithstanding a short biographical note in the Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, Hoyt's life and work are not yet documented.

The Failure of Macroeconomics in America

China & World EconomyVolume 19, Issue 5 p. 17-30 Free Access The Failure of Macroeconomics in America Joseph Stiglitz, Joseph Stiglitz Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York. Email: jes322@Columbia.edu.Search for more papers by this author Joseph Stiglitz, Joseph Stiglitz Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York. Email: jes322@Columbia.edu.Search for more papers by this author First published: 05 October 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-124X.2011.01256.xCitations: 8 Editor's Words: On 18 March 2011, the China Association for World Economics hosted “The Presentation of the 2010 Pushan Award for Excellent Papers on International Economics” at the China Central University of Finance and Economics. Over 700 scholars and students from home and abroad attended the ceremony. Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, presented the awards and gave a speech on “The Failure of Economics in America.“ The following speech transcript has been approved and edited kindly by Professor Stiglitz. The editor thanks Eamon Kircher-Allen for assistance. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume19, Issue5September‐October 2011Pages 17-30 RelatedInformation

A history of heterodox economics: challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century

1. Introduction Part I: Heterodox Economics in the United States 2. The Contested Landscape and Dominance in American Economics In the 20th Century 3. Heresy, Blasphemy, and Radical Economics in Post-War America, 1945 - 1970 4. The Contested Landscape of American Economics circa 1965 - 1980 5. The History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971 - 1995 Part II Heterodox Economics in the United Kingdom 6. The Contested Landscape of British Economics, 1900 - 1970 7. Heterodox Economics in Britain, 1970 - 1996 8. Research Assessment Exercise and its Impact on Heterodox Economics, 1989 - 1996 9. Research Assessment Exercise, the State, and the Dominance of Mainstream Economics in British Universities, 2000 - 2003 Part III Heterodox Economics at the Beginning of the 21st Century 10. The Emergence of Heterodox Economics, 1990 - 2006 11. Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and Departments: Suggested Methodologies

Learning from the Past: A Small Quibble with Fred Lee’s History of American Radical Economics

Fred Lee’s history of radical economics in America between 1945 and 1970 ( RRPE 36, 2) fails to address why the powerful New Deal movement disintegrated so quickly after the war. This article argues that the Soviet Union’s decision to retreat into isolationism split and effectively destroyed the American Left. Progressive but noncommunist economists including Harry White and Lauchlin Currie were isolated and easy targets for McCarthyites. The Bretton Woods institutions they had designed were effectively consigned into the hands of American imperialism.

Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids

Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids

Review Essay: "Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon," edited by Joseph Tobin and Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids," edited by Heather Hendershot

(2005). Review Essay: 'Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon,' edited by Joseph Tobin and Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids,' edited by Heather Hendershot. Popular Communication: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 209-212.

Nickelodeon nation: the history, politics, and economics of America's only TV channel for kids

ContentsIntroduction: Nickelodeon and the Business of Fun Heather HendershotI Economics and Marketing1 Nickelodeon Grows Up: The Economic Evolution of a Network Norma Pecora2 A Kid's Gotta Do What a Kid's Gotta Do: Branding the Nickelodeon Experience Kevin S. Sandler3 Satisfaction Guaranteed! Nick at Nite and TV Land's Adult AttractionsSusan MurrayII The Production Process4 The Early Days of Nicktoons Linda Simensky5 You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became as Dif?cult as the Real Thing Mimi Swartz6 Diversifying Representation in Children's TV: Nickelodeon's Model Ellen Seiter and Vicki Mayer7 Interview with Geraldine Laybourne Henry JenkinsIII Programs and Politics8 Ren & Stimpy: Fan Culture and Corporate Strategy Mark Langer9 Nickelodeon's Nautical Nonsense: The Intergenerational Appeal of SpongeBob SquarePants Heather Hendershot10 We Pledge Allegiance to Kids: Nickelodeon and Citizenship Sarah Banet-WeiserIV Viewers11 Watching Children Watch Television and the Creation of Blue's Clues Daniel R. AndersonAbout the Contributors Index

The Organizational History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971-1995

(2000). The Organizational History of Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971-1995. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 141-162.

Politics and economics in America: the way we came to be

At particular moments in history, the USA was the economic envy of the world. This text examines the evolution of economic belief and the historical events which affected the growth of the world's leading industrial countries, with specific emphasis on the USA.

Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition

Other| March 01 1996 Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition Karen I. Vaughn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 198 pp. $49.95. Allin F. Cottrell Allin F. Cottrell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (1): 128–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-1-128 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Allin F. Cottrell; Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. History of Political Economy 1 March 1996; 28 (1): 128–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-1-128 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHistory of Political Economy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press1996 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

What's Wrong With Industrial Relations?

Industrial Relations was the first multidisciplinary field in American universities, established fifty years before the next one to come along, American Studies. For almost three-quarters of a century it provided the central paradigms for the large majority of the social scientists, law professors, arbitrators, mediators, and personnel managers concerned with union-management issues and also the key figures in the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the National War Labor Boards, and virtually all the other government commissions and boards established to regulate labor. For some scholars and professionals it still does. In recent years faculty have challenged and reshaped nearly all of the older conceptions in the social sciences and humanities. Nothing comparable has yet occurred in the newer studies programs. But now Bruce Kaufman, a labor economist and director of the Institute for Personnel and Employment Relations at Georgia State University, has sharply attacked the Industrial Relations field. To reassess Industrial Relations (or IR, as it is colloquially known), Kaufman adopted a historical approach, a decision which itself represents a departure. Like Kaufman, John R. Commons, the founder of labor economics in America, was not originally a historian. Yet Commons was strongly committed to historical research. I cannot bring in . . . an employers' association and a trade union, put them in a glass case ... watch them tussle, higgle, settle their differences-the way Sir John Lubbock did when he studied bees and ants, he told an audience in 1907.1 Commons believed that unions must shun radicalism to survive in the United States and used historical illustrations to advance his conviction. Between the world wars Commons's proteges, such as Edwin Witte and Selig Perlman, pushed the historical approach to Industrial Relations even further. But when the number of IR programs increased enormously after World

Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition.

Journal Article Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. Get access Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. By (KAREN I.) Vaughn. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 198. £30.00 hardback, US $49.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 44552 3.) Rudy van Zijp Rudy van Zijp Free University, Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue 432, 1 September 1995, Pages 1302–1304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235431 Published: 01 September 1995

Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Carl Menger and the foundations of Austrian economics 3. Economic calculation and the rediscovery of Mengerian themes 4. Ludwig von Mises: Austrian economics in America 5. The Austrian revival 6. Defining the Austrian paradigm 7. Market process: the problem of order in Austrian economics 8. Austrian economics: which way forward References Index.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this Article The Economics of the European Union: Policy and Analysis. Edited by M J. Artis and N. Lee. Economic Theory and Policy for Trading Blocks. By Christopher Bliss. The Market Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics. Edited by Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko. Austrian Economics in America: The Migration of a Tradition. By Karen I. Vaughin. European Union and European Community: A Handbook and Commentary on the Post‐Maastricht Treaties. By Clive H. Church and David Phinnemore. European Monetary Upheavals. Edited by David Cobham. A Dictionary of Econometrics. By Adrian C. Darnell. The Political Economy of European Monetary Unification. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden. G.L.S. Shackle: The Dissenting Economist's Economist. By J. L. Ford. Dynamics of the Firm: Strategies of Pricing and Organization. Edited by John Groenewegen. Post‐Keynesian Essays in Biography. Portraits of Twentieth‐Century Political Economists. By G. C. Harcourt. Money, Inflation and Employment: Essays in Honour of James Ball. Edited by S. Holly. Finance and the Small Firm. Edited by A. Hughes and D. J. Storey.. International Capital Mobility and External Account Determination. By A. J. Makin. Forecasting Financial and Economic Cycles. By Michael P. Niemira and Philip A. Klein.. The Economics of the Environment. Edited by Wallace E. Oates. Methodology, Money and the Firm: The Collected Essays of D. P. O'Brien. Volumes I & II. By D. P. O'Brien. A Course in Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting. By John Whitley. Eastern Europe's International Trade. By L. Alan Winters and Zhen Kun Wang. North‐South Trade, Employment and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill‐Driven World. By Adrian Wood. The Political Economy of Trade and Growth: An Analytical Interpretation of Sir James Steuart's Inquiry. By Hong‐Seok Yang.