Renee Prendergast
Biographic Data
| ID | 1007267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renee Prendergast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renee |
| FAMILY NAME | Prendergast |
| SIGNATURE | PRENDERGAST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Role of Knowledge in Economic Life — From Bacon to Marshall
The paper seeks to uncover a long-submerged tradition that saw knowledge accumulation as the main driver of development. This vision was ubiquitous until the late 18th century when, with the advent of the machine age, the focus shifted from knowledge accumulation to capital accumulation. Emphasis on knowledge did not disappear completely. Some argued that the knowledge embedded in human agents and not capital was the source of productivity gains …
Julianne Werlin, Writing at the Origin of Capitalism—Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England
In literary research as in more mundane economic activities, the division of labour produces new knowledge. But, as Brian Loasby (1991) pointed out, we only reap the full benefits of specialization if we find appropriate means of co-ordinating the divided activities. This need to combine differentiation and integration applies not only to ordinary economic activity but also to knowledge itself. Julianne Werlin tells us that, during the past thirt…
The Political Economy of Swift’s Satires and other Prose Works
Jonathan Swift wrote perceptively about the emerging commercial society in Britain in the early eighteenth century. His particular focus was on the financial revolution and its implications for economic and political stability as well as for shifts of power between the landed and commercial classes. Following his return to Ireland Swift’s focus shifted to the developmental problems of his native country. In several pamphlets he advocated consumpt…
Accumulation of knowledge and accumulation of capital in early 'theories' of growth and development
This paper argues that prior to Adam Smith economic progress was largely conceived as being based on the accumulation of knowledge. The development by Turgot and Smith of a concept of capital that subsumed other factors contributing to development led their followers to focus on capital to the neglect of the independent role of knowledge. The paper demonstrates that this paradigmatic shift was identified and challenged by Bentham, Hodgskin and Ra…
Sen and Commons on Markets and Freedom
Amartya Sen's enlarged conception of freedom has augmented the scope of economic analysis but it also has had the surprising effect of being more supportive of the free market than conventional welfare economics. It is argued here that a comparison of Sen's position with that of the American institutionalist, J R Commons, highlights some problems with Sen's approach and points to possible ways in which they might be addressed
The genesis of macroeconomics
Knowledge and Information in Economics
Research Article| November 01 2007 Knowledge and Information in Economics: What Did the Classical Economists Know? Renee Prendergast Renee Prendergast Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (4): 679–712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-036 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Renee Prendergast; Knowledge and Information in…
The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development—a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen
Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employed in economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution of the concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It traces the development of Sen's thought from the capability analysis of the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom into its opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciative of Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, the paper iden…
Government intervention in a dynamic economy
N.B. Professor Michie was based at Birkbeck College, University of London, when this article was first published. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Michie, J. & Prendergast, R. (1998). 'Government intervention in a dynamic economy', New Political Economy, 3(3),391-406. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713439457]
Some Notes on the Early Development of the Concept of Abstract Labour
Market Forces and World Development
Marshallian External Economies
Journal Article Marshallian External Economies Get access Renée Prendergast Renée Prendergast Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 417, 1 March 1993, Pages 454–458, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234784 Published: 01 March 1993
Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit
Research Article| September 01 1991 Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit Reneé Prendergast Reneé Prendergast 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-3-419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Reneé Prendergast; Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit. …
Scale of production and choice of technique in the engineering industries in developing countries
This article examines the relationship between scale of production, optimal choice of technique and costs for three engineering industries: nuts and bolts, iron founding and machine tools. In all three industries costs of production fell as the scale of output increased. This was associated with switches of technique and the spread of fixed costs over a larger number of units. The capital‐output ratio fell and labour productivity increased with i…
Causes of multiproduct production
James Anderson's Political Economy–his Influence on Smith and Malthus
James Anderson's powerful critique of Adam Smith's position on the corn export bounty was published in 1777. It focuse d on Smith's proposition that the bounty could not lead to increased corn production because it could not increase corn's real price. Smit h's response to the critique is traced in later editions of Wealth of Nations. While Anderson's critique of Smith influenced Thomas Malthu s's writings from 1803 onwards, his theory of differe…
A Comment on `David Ricardo's Early Treatment of Profitability
Journal Article A Comment on `David Ricardo's Early Treatment of Profitability: A New Interpretation' Get access Renée Prendergast Renée Prendergast The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 1098–1104, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233178 Published: 01 December 1986
Sen and Commons on Markets and Freedom
Amartya Sen's enlarged conception of freedom has augmented the scope of economic analysis but it also has had the surprising effect of being more supportive of the free market than conventional welfare economics. It is argued here that a comparison of Sen's position with that of the American institutionalist, J R Commons, highlights some problems with Sen's approach and points to possible ways in which they might be addressed
Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit
Research Article| September 01 1991 Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit Reneé Prendergast Reneé Prendergast 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-3-419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Reneé Prendergast; Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit. …
Knowledge and Information in Economics
Research Article| November 01 2007 Knowledge and Information in Economics: What Did the Classical Economists Know? Renee Prendergast Renee Prendergast Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (4): 679–712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-036 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Renee Prendergast; Knowledge and Information in…
Some Notes on the Early Development of the Concept of Abstract Labour
Marshallian External Economies
Journal Article Marshallian External Economies Get access Renée Prendergast Renée Prendergast Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 417, 1 March 1993, Pages 454–458, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234784 Published: 01 March 1993
Causes of multiproduct production
A Comment on `David Ricardo's Early Treatment of Profitability
Journal Article A Comment on `David Ricardo's Early Treatment of Profitability: A New Interpretation' Get access Renée Prendergast Renée Prendergast The Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 1098–1104, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233178 Published: 01 December 1986
James Anderson's Political Economy–his Influence on Smith and Malthus
James Anderson's powerful critique of Adam Smith's position on the corn export bounty was published in 1777. It focuse d on Smith's proposition that the bounty could not lead to increased corn production because it could not increase corn's real price. Smit h's response to the critique is traced in later editions of Wealth of Nations. While Anderson's critique of Smith influenced Thomas Malthu s's writings from 1803 onwards, his theory of differe…
Scale of production and choice of technique in the engineering industries in developing countries
This article examines the relationship between scale of production, optimal choice of technique and costs for three engineering industries: nuts and bolts, iron founding and machine tools. In all three industries costs of production fell as the scale of output increased. This was associated with switches of technique and the spread of fixed costs over a larger number of units. The capital‐output ratio fell and labour productivity increased with i…
Causes of multiproduct production
Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit
Research Article| September 01 1991 Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit Reneé Prendergast Reneé Prendergast 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-3-419 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Reneé Prendergast; Cantillon and the Emergence of the Theory of Profit. …
Marshallian External Economies
Journal Article Marshallian External Economies Get access Renée Prendergast Renée Prendergast Queen's University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 417, 1 March 1993, Pages 454–458, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234784 Published: 01 March 1993
Market Forces and World Development
Some Notes on the Early Development of the Concept of Abstract Labour
Government intervention in a dynamic economy
N.B. Professor Michie was based at Birkbeck College, University of London, when this article was first published. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Michie, J. & Prendergast, R. (1998). 'Government intervention in a dynamic economy', New Political Economy, 3(3),391-406. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713439457]
The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development—a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen
Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employed in economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution of the concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It traces the development of Sen's thought from the capability analysis of the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom into its opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciative of Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, the paper iden…
Knowledge and Information in Economics
Research Article| November 01 2007 Knowledge and Information in Economics: What Did the Classical Economists Know? Renee Prendergast Renee Prendergast Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (4): 679–712. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-036 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Renee Prendergast; Knowledge and Information in…
Accumulation of knowledge and accumulation of capital in early 'theories' of growth and development
This paper argues that prior to Adam Smith economic progress was largely conceived as being based on the accumulation of knowledge. The development by Turgot and Smith of a concept of capital that subsumed other factors contributing to development led their followers to focus on capital to the neglect of the independent role of knowledge. The paper demonstrates that this paradigmatic shift was identified and challenged by Bentham, Hodgskin and Ra…
Sen and Commons on Markets and Freedom
Amartya Sen's enlarged conception of freedom has augmented the scope of economic analysis but it also has had the surprising effect of being more supportive of the free market than conventional welfare economics. It is argued here that a comparison of Sen's position with that of the American institutionalist, J R Commons, highlights some problems with Sen's approach and points to possible ways in which they might be addressed
The genesis of macroeconomics
The Political Economy of Swift’s Satires and other Prose Works
Jonathan Swift wrote perceptively about the emerging commercial society in Britain in the early eighteenth century. His particular focus was on the financial revolution and its implications for economic and political stability as well as for shifts of power between the landed and commercial classes. Following his return to Ireland Swift’s focus shifted to the developmental problems of his native country. In several pamphlets he advocated consumpt…
Julianne Werlin, Writing at the Origin of Capitalism—Literary Circulation and Social Change in Early Modern England
In literary research as in more mundane economic activities, the division of labour produces new knowledge. But, as Brian Loasby (1991) pointed out, we only reap the full benefits of specialization if we find appropriate means of co-ordinating the divided activities. This need to combine differentiation and integration applies not only to ordinary economic activity but also to knowledge itself. Julianne Werlin tells us that, during the past thirt…
The Role of Knowledge in Economic Life — From Bacon to Marshall
The paper seeks to uncover a long-submerged tradition that saw knowledge accumulation as the main driver of development. This vision was ubiquitous until the late 18th century when, with the advent of the machine age, the focus shifted from knowledge accumulation to capital accumulation. Emphasis on knowledge did not disappear completely. Some argued that the knowledge embedded in human agents and not capital was the source of productivity gains …
Economics (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (7 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works)