Elgin Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elgin Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elgin |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Left and the American Way of Life
What the Left needs is a positive philosophy. Its aim should not merely be to establish public ownership of the means of production, abolish depression and unemployment, eliminate totalitarianism and imperialism, and so on, but literally to raise the standard of living. Until Left attention is focussed on this problem, its other programs will fail. Only clear delineation of something positive to fight for a really creative, satisfying way of life…
The Animating Pursuits of Speculation
Journal Article The Animating Pursuits of Speculation: Land Traffic in the Annexation of Texas. By Elgin Williams. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 547. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 230 pp. Bibliography and index. $3.25.) Get access William C. Binkley William C. Binkley Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Animating Pursuits of Speculation
Progress in Economics
The Marginal Utility of Productivity Theory
Can We Save Science
Everyone is agreed that mankind today finds itself virtually swimming in crises. The typical discussion of every world problem is so fraught with a sense of urgency, so steeped in the hyperbole of danger, that the discussions would be funny were they not so tragic
The Disposition of the Technical Equipment
The Search for Economic Principles
Two Truisms and the 'Price' Inflation
The Deterioration of the Managerial Prerogative
The Dismal Science of Functionalism
Sociologists and Knowledge
It is the proudest boast of the sciences that they are objective, clean of moral judgments, wertfrei. This insistence was salutary as the physical sciences struggled to loose themselves from the bonds of tradition, and it was natural that the social sciences took over the emphasis. Yet by a quirk of history the latter disciplines in striving for objectivity and amorality are unscientific. Far from being the hallmark of scientific method that stud…
The Educational Value of the Post-War Strikes
The Function of the Executive
Anthropology for the Common Man
Verbiage on the 'Left
The Incidence of Mental Disease in the Negro
E. Y. Williams, The Incidence of Mental Disease in the Negro, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Health Status and Health Education of Negroes in the United States (Jul., 1937), pp. 377-392
Thieves and Punishment
Thieves and Punishment
The Incidence of Mental Disease in the Negro
E. Y. Williams, The Incidence of Mental Disease in the Negro, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Health Status and Health Education of Negroes in the United States (Jul., 1937), pp. 377-392
Verbiage on the 'Left
Sociologists and Knowledge
It is the proudest boast of the sciences that they are objective, clean of moral judgments, wertfrei. This insistence was salutary as the physical sciences struggled to loose themselves from the bonds of tradition, and it was natural that the social sciences took over the emphasis. Yet by a quirk of history the latter disciplines in striving for objectivity and amorality are unscientific. Far from being the hallmark of scientific method that stud…
The Educational Value of the Post-War Strikes
The Function of the Executive
Anthropology for the Common Man
Can We Save Science
Everyone is agreed that mankind today finds itself virtually swimming in crises. The typical discussion of every world problem is so fraught with a sense of urgency, so steeped in the hyperbole of danger, that the discussions would be funny were they not so tragic
The Disposition of the Technical Equipment
The Search for Economic Principles
Two Truisms and the 'Price' Inflation
The Deterioration of the Managerial Prerogative
The Dismal Science of Functionalism
The Animating Pursuits of Speculation
Journal Article The Animating Pursuits of Speculation: Land Traffic in the Annexation of Texas. By Elgin Williams. Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 547. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 230 pp. Bibliography and index. $3.25.) Get access William C. Binkley William C. Binkley Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The Animating Pursuits of Speculation
Progress in Economics
The Marginal Utility of Productivity Theory
The Left and the American Way of Life
What the Left needs is a positive philosophy. Its aim should not merely be to establish public ownership of the means of production, abolish depression and unemployment, eliminate totalitarianism and imperialism, and so on, but literally to raise the standard of living. Until Left attention is focussed on this problem, its other programs will fail. Only clear delineation of something positive to fight for a really creative, satisfying way of life…
Sociology (13 works) · Citation (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Library science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (4 works)