Robert W Dimand
Biographic Data
| ID | 611786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Dimand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimand |
| SIGNATURE | DIMAND R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8304-5148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bachelier (1914) and Mandelbrot (1963)
Benoît Mandelbrot’s argument in 1963 and later for the prevalence of fat-tailed distributions (“wild randomness”) was presented as a challenge to Louis Bachelier’s 1900 model of asset price movements as Brownian motion in efficient markets. There was, however, another side to Bachelier’s contribution, discovered and reported by Mandelbrot in 1967 but still not generally known. Bachelier (1914) was the first to show the crucial empirical weaknesse…
Irving Fisher on conservation, national vitality and economic progress
As a member of the National Conservation Commission appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Yale economist Irving Fisher wrote a 138-page Report on National Vitality, Its Wastes and Conservation, published in the commission's three volume report in January 1909 and separately as a bulletin of the Committee of One Hundred on National Health. This report provided the most thorough and analytical statement of Fisher's advocacy of increasing the l…
James Tobin on macroeconomic instability
From 1975 onwards, the American Keynesian monetary economist James Tobin changed his interpretation of the Keynesian case that active stabilisation policy is sometimes needed to restore full employment, offering a new interpretation that drew on Keynes’s General Theory (Chapter 19) and on Irving Fisher’s 1933 debt-deflation theory of depressions to argue that wage and price flexibility could be destabilizing. Tobin’s very first journal article in…
James Tobin on Overlapping Generations Models and the Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics Reconsidered
The American Keynesian economist and Nobel laureate James Tobin entitled his contribution to the inaugural issue of Journal of Money, Credit and Banking “A General Equilibrium Approach to Monetary Theory” (1969) yet he was sharply critical of the version of general equilibrium analysis used in the now-prevalent dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) approach to macroeconomic modeling. He also rejected claims that overlapping generation (OL…
Introduction to Economists at War
The 2023 HOPE conference aimed to understand the interrelationships between the Second World War and economics. Examining this back-and-forth means examining the transformative effect of the war on the content and status of economics but also symmetrically examining the role played by economics and economists in the conduct of the Second World War
Koopmans, Dantzig, and the Wartime Origins of Activity Analysis
In the introduction to Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation (Cowles Monograph No. 13), Tjalling C. Koopmans recalled that he developed the model of his "Optimal Utilization of the Transportation System" (in the proceedings of 1947 International Statistical Congress, which were reissued as an Econometrica supplement, 1949) "under the stimulation of statistical work for the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, the British-American board de…
Irving Fisher, Ragnar Frisch, and the Elusive Quest for Measurable Utility
Commitment to the behaviorist approach to utility theory, to the usefulness of mathematics in economic analysis, and to equalization of the marginal utility of income as a principle of just taxation brought Irving Fisher and Ragnar Frisch to attempt to measure the marginal utility of income and led them to collaborate in forming the Econometric Society and sponsoring the establishment of the Cowles Commission, institutions advancing economic theo…
The emergence of social choice at the Cowles Commission, 1948–1952
Kenneth Arrow’s Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Monograph No. 12, 1951), a work that established the field of social choice and set the limits for what public economic theory could hope to achieve, was formulated at the Cowles Commission at the University of Chicago from 1947 to 1949 (and during the summer of 1948 at the RAND Corporation) in a context in which concern with using economic theory to guide the economy was intense. During…
Irving Fisher, Simon Newcomb, and their plans to stabilize the dollar
Irving Fisher dedicated Stabilizing the Dollar (1920) to Simon Newcomb for anticipating him “in proposing plans for stabilizing monetary units.” The congruence of Newcomb’s and Fisher’s monetary theories and reform proposals was not as straightforward as Fisher’s book dedication suggested. Their plans had different theoretical roots: Fisher’s compensated dollar plan was the outcome of his quantity theory of money, while Newcomb held a classical m…
Lucas and Tobin
The future Nobel laureates Robert Lucas and James Tobin debated the New Classical challenge to the microeconomic foundations and empirical validity of Keynesian economics, with Lucas singling Tobin out as an interlocutor among Keynesian economists who took the New Classical challenge seriously. Their intellectual exchanges began with Tobin, ‘The Wage-Price Mechanism: Overview of the Conference’ (1972), and Lucas, ‘Econometric Testing of the Natur…
Economic Inequality and Rural Entrepreneurship
The relationship between economic inequality and entrepreneurship has received the attention of scholars who have advised researchers to ‘use new data and seek new methods to study economic inequality.’ We examine a neglected source of such data and methods, Polly Hill’s The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana (1963) and Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa (1970), which stressed the agency of rural entrepreneurs. According to Hill, eco…
The Emergence of Geographical Economics
We explore disciplinary boundary-making in geographical economics or “the new economic geography” with attention to the approaches taken by, and attempts at communication among, scholars with primary affiliations in economics, geography, and regional science. The Dixit-Stiglitz general equilibrium approach to monopolistic competition and increasing returns was applied to agglomeration and location by Paul Krugman, who had previously pioneered the…
Polly Hill
Polly Hill spent her long, productive, and at times controversial career crossing and contesting disciplinary boundaries. She graduated in economics at Cambridge, but her doctorate was in social anthropology—with economist Joan Robinson as dissertation supervisor. Her thirteen years at the University of Ghana were initially in economics, then in African studies, and her readership at Cambridge was in Commonwealth studies. As a woman in several ma…
From “science as measurement” to “measurement and theory”
While located at the University of Chicago, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics advanced a distinctive “Cowles Commission approach” to macroeconomic modelling, using maximum likelihood methods to estimate structurally-identified Keynesian simultaneous-equations models, with the methods presented in two Cowles monographs edited or co-edited by Tjalling Koopmans, a pioneering implementation in another Cowles monograph by Lawrence Klein,…
Léon Walras, Irving Fisher and the Cowles Approach to General Equilibrium Analysis
This paper explores the relationship of Walras’s work to a particularly influential tradition of general equilibrium, that associated with the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics in Colorado in the 1930s and at the University of Chicago from 1939 to 1955, and its successor, the Cowles Foundation, at Yale University from 1955. Irving Fisher introduced general equilibrium analysis into North America with his 1891 Yale dissertation Mathemati…
Keynes, Knight, and Fundamental Uncertainty
John Maynard Keynes’s Treatise on Probability (1921) and Frank Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (1921) independently stressed the distinction between insurable risk and uninsurable fundamental uncertainty (in Knight’s terminology), inspiring two literatures that have engaged with each other only intermittently. I explore the relationship between what Keynes wrote about uncertainty in his Treatise and what Knight published the same year, and …
Jacob Marschak and the Cowles approaches to the theory of money and assets
Jacob Marschak shaped the emergence of monetary theory and portfolio choice at the Cowles Commission (which he directed from 1943 to 1948, but with which he was involved already from 1937) at the University of Chicago, where he was the doctoral teacher of Leonid Hurwicz, Harry Markowitz and Don Patinkin, and then from 1955 at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, where he was a senior colleague of James Tobin until moving to UCLA in 1960. Mar…
Polly Hill
Polly Hill spent her long, productive and at times controversial career crossing and contesting disciplinary boundaries. She graduated in economics at Cambridge, but her doctorate was in social anthropology - with economist Joan Robinson as dissertation supervisor. Her thirteen years at the University of Ghana were initially in Economics, then in African Studies, and her readership at Cambridge was in Commonwealth Studies. As a woman in several m…
A History of Economic Science in Japan
Book Review| August 01 2020 A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century by Aiko Ikeo A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century. By Ikeo, Aiko. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xxi; 281 pp. $160.00. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Politi…
The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes
There are three areas in which Kahn (1905–1989) made contributions which secured him a prominent place in the history of economics: imperfect competition, the theory of employment, and monetary and international economics.
Women in the Early Years of the American Economic Association
We use the archives of the American Economic Association to examine the participation of women in the association from its foundation in 1885 to the Great Depression. Women participated actively in the formation of the association, contributed several monographs to its early publications, and won some of its early essay competitions. We find that the membership drives of 1900-1902 (aimed at academics and businessmen) and of 1909-13 (aimed at lawy…
Craufurd Goodwin as a Historian of Canadian Economic Thought
Craufurd Goodwin began his distinguished career in the history of economic thought as a scholar of Canadian and Commonwealth economic thought. This paper examines his pioneering contributions to the study of Canadian economic thought, including his doctoral dissertation and first book, which explored the development of political economy in Canada in the century preceding World War I
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought
Introduction Part I Beginning Prior to 1850 Chapter 1 Indian Women's Agency through Indian Women's Literature Sheetal Bharat Chapter 2 English Women's Economic Thought in the 1790s: Domestic Economy, Married Women's Economic Dependence, and Access to Professions Joanna Rostek Chapter 3 British Women on the British Empire Janet Seiz Chapter 4 Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Paley Marshall and Beatrice Potter Webb: Women Economists and Economists' Wives …
Populism versus Economic Expertise
William Harvey’s best-selling Coin’s Financial School made the bimetallist case for free coinage of silver through a fictitious debate in which leading bankers, politicians, and economists were humiliated by a young bimetallist. One of Harvey’s targets, J. Laurence Laughlin, challenged Harvey to a real debate, in which populist critique of established authority was confronted with an emphatic defense of monetary orthodoxy and academic expertise b…
William J. Barber (1925–2016)
Research Article| December 01 2017 William J. Barber (1925–2016) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (4): 535–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-4296293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; William J. Barber (1925–2016). H…
Women of Value
Journal Article Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics Get access Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics. Edited by DIMAND (MARY ANN), (ROBERT W.) Dimand and (EVELYN L.) Forget. (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp. xii + 228. £49.95 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 959 X.) J. R. Shackleton J. R. Shackleton University of Westminster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Nicholas Kaldor
Journal Article Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System Get access Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System. By Targetti (Ferdinando). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 402. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828348 2.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University and Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Economists and the Shadow of "The Other" Before 1914
This paper examines how economists from David Hume to Irving Fisher have struggled with the applicability of their analyses to those who differed from them in gender, ethnicity, class, or race. Particular attention is paid to how Fisher's discussion of racial and ethnic differences in capital accumulation and time preference changed between The Rate of Interest (1907) and The Theory of Interest (1930), and how it drew on earlier work by John Rae …
Hawtrey and the Multiplier
Research Article| September 01 1997 Hawtrey and the Multiplier Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (3): 549–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-3-549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Hawtrey and the Multiplier. History of Political Economy 1 September 1997; 29 (3)…
The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel
Research Article| December 01 1992 The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel Robert W. Dimand; Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mary Ann Dimand Mary Ann Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-Supplement-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Mr Meade's Relation, Kahn's Multiplier and the Chronology of the General Theory
Don Patinkin (1993) and James Meade (1993) explore the relationship among Kahn's multiplier, ‘Mr Meade's Relation', and Keynes's theory of effective demand, but do not quote Mr Meade's Relation as it appeared in Kahn (1931). This note shows that the 1931 version of Mr Meade's Relation did not include a personal saving propensity. Instead it included other leakages not in the 1993 version. Attention is drawn to derivation of a finite multiplier us…
James Tobin and the Transformation of the IS-LM Model
Research Article| December 01 2004 James Tobin and the Transformation of the IS-LM Model Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (Suppl_1): 165–189. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-36-Suppl_1-165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; James Tobin and the Transformation of the IS-LM Model. History of Poli…
Strategic Games from Theory to Application
Research Article| December 01 2000 Strategic Games from Theory to Application Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 199–226. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-Suppl_1-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Strategic Games from Theory to Application. History of Political Economy 1 Decemb…
The case of Brownian motion
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Women in the Early Years of the American Economic Association
We use the archives of the American Economic Association to examine the participation of women in the association from its foundation in 1885 to the Great Depression. Women participated actively in the formation of the association, contributed several monographs to its early publications, and won some of its early essay competitions. We find that the membership drives of 1900-1902 (aimed at academics and businessmen) and of 1909-13 (aimed at lawy…
Perhaps I'm a Don Quixote but I'm Trying to Be a Paul Revere
The American economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947) combined his work as a scientific economist, addressed to his fellow economists, with sustained and vigorous participation in public discourse, trying to change public policy and to reform attitudes and behavior by teaching policymakers and the public what Fisher regarded as the lessons of economic science. Fisher's dissertation, on general equilibrium analysis, was removed from political debate, b…
Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model
The independent contributions of Robert Solow and the Australian economist Trevor Swan in developing the neoclassical growth model are sometimes recognized by reference to the "Solow-Swan" model, but often reference is made only to the "Solow" model. Both Solow (1956) and Swan (1956) created a simple, convenient, and powerful apparatus for finding the steady-state growth path of a one-commodity world. This paper examines the differences and simil…
Louis Bachelier
Book Review| June 01 2007 Louis Bachelier: Aux origines de la finance mathématique . Edited by Jean-Michel Courtault and Your Kabanov, with a preface by Ivar Ekeland. Besançon, France: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2002. 216 pp. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 318–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-009 Views Icon Views Articl…
Celebrating Irving Fisher
Retrospectives Gender in Classical Economics
This feature addresses the history of economic words and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Room 2103, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121
Irving Fisher's Debt–Deflation Theory of Great Depressions
0034–6764/94/0301–92/$l .50/0. Presented at a North American Economics and Finance Association session at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings in Anaheim,California, January 6, 1993. I am grateful to William Barber and Mary Ann Dimand for helpful comments. Notes 0034–6764/94/0301–92/$l .50/0. Presented at a North American Economics and Finance Association session at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings in Anaheim,California,…
Lucas and Tobin
The future Nobel laureates Robert Lucas and James Tobin debated the New Classical challenge to the microeconomic foundations and empirical validity of Keynesian economics, with Lucas singling Tobin out as an interlocutor among Keynesian economists who took the New Classical challenge seriously. Their intellectual exchanges began with Tobin, ‘The Wage-Price Mechanism: Overview of the Conference’ (1972), and Lucas, ‘Econometric Testing of the Natur…
Economic Inequality and Rural Entrepreneurship
The relationship between economic inequality and entrepreneurship has received the attention of scholars who have advised researchers to ‘use new data and seek new methods to study economic inequality.’ We examine a neglected source of such data and methods, Polly Hill’s The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana (1963) and Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa (1970), which stressed the agency of rural entrepreneurs. According to Hill, eco…
Canada 150
Since the 1890s, Canadian social scientists have been actively involved in the making of public policy as decision makers (both as elected officials and as senior public servants); as expert advisers (notably through Royal Commission reports and studies), at both federal and provincial levels; and as shapers of and participants in public discourse. The history of this involvement reflects the expansion and transformation of the scholarly communit…
Fortune Tellers
Book Review| March 01 2015 Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters. By Friedman, Walter A.. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. xi; 273 pp. Hardcover$29.95. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (1): 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28473…
The Development of Economics in Japan
Book Review| November 01 2014 The Development of Economics in Japan: From the Inter-War Period to the 2000s The Development of Economics in Japan: From the Inter-war Period to the 2000s. Edited by Asada, Toichiro. London: Routledge. xx; 212 pp. Hardback$140.00. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (4): 696–698. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2815635 C…
Retrospectives Irving Fisher's Appreciation and Interest (1896) and the Fisher Relation
Irving Fisher's monograph Appreciation and Interest (1896) proposed his famous equation showing expected inflation as the difference between nominal interest and real interest rates. In addition, he drew attention to insightful remarks and numerical examples scattered through the earlier literature, and he derived results ranging from the uncovered interest arbitrage parity condition between currencies to the expectations theory of the term struc…
Women’s Participation in the Assa Meetings1
Cet article examine comment la participation des femmes aux meetings annuels de l’Allied Social Science Associations a changée à partir du moment où l’American Economic Association a décidé de faire de ses rencontres annuelles des conférences jointes – initialement avec sept associations, puis plus tard avec de nombreuses autres associations dédiées directement ou indirectement à l’économie. Une attention particulière est accordée à la manière do…
Emily Greene Balch, Political Economist
The first female economist to win a Nobel Prize was Emily Greene Balch, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for the same anti-war activism for which she lost her Wellesley professorship of economics and sociology in 1918. Balch, an outspoken pacifist, social reformer, and defender of ethnically-diverse immigration, has largely been forgotten in the history of economic thought and of sociology. Her contributions and her remarkable career warr…
Edmund Phelps and Modern Macroeconomics
Edmund Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been a central figure in the development of macroeconomics since his 1961 article ‘The Golden Rule of Accumulation’ on optimal economic growth. His 1967–68 critique of the stability of the Phillips curve trade-off, together with Friedman (1968) Friedman, M. 1968. The role of monetary policy. American Economic Review, 58(1): 1–17. [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], led to the expe…
On Keynes's Method
Journal Article On Keynes's Method Get access On Keynes's Method. By ANNA CARABELLI. (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988. Pp. xi + 369. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 333 45663 7.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 397, 1 September 1989, Pages 890–891, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233797 Published: 01 September 1989
The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution
Journal Article The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution: The Development of Keynes's Theory of Employment and Output Get access The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution: the Development of Keynes's Theory of Employment and Output. By W. DIMAND ROBERT. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1988.1 Pp. vii + 213. £25.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 062 2.) George Peden George Peden University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Fixed capital in the Ricardian theory of value and distribution
This paper examines the determination of exchange values, income distribution, output and population in a Ricardian stationary state with fixed capital under less restrictive assumptions than previous studies. A fully determined and internally consistent model is derived with differing capital/labour ratios between sectors, with emphasis on showing that the assumptions made are drawn from Ricardo's writings. The model is extended to include gold …
Economics
J. M. Keynes on Buffer Stocks and Commodity Price Stabilization
Research Article| March 01 1990 J. M. Keynes on Buffer Stocks and Commodity Price Stabilization Robert W. Dimand; Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mary Ann Dimand Mary Ann Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (1): 113–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-22-1-113 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissio…
The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel
Research Article| December 01 1992 The Early History of the Theory of Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel Robert W. Dimand; Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mary Ann Dimand Mary Ann Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 15–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-Supplement-15 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Nicholas Kaldor
Journal Article Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System Get access Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System. By Targetti (Ferdinando). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 402. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828348 2.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University and Connecticut College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The case of Brownian motion
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Keyne's General Theory and Accumulation
Other| November 01 1993 Keyne's General Theory and Accumulation A. Asimakopulos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xviii, 207 pp. $47.50 (cloth), $16.95 (paper). Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (4): 752–754. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-4-752 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site …
Mr Meade's Relation, Kahn's Multiplier and the Chronology of the General Theory
Don Patinkin (1993) and James Meade (1993) explore the relationship among Kahn's multiplier, ‘Mr Meade's Relation', and Keynes's theory of effective demand, but do not quote Mr Meade's Relation as it appeared in Kahn (1931). This note shows that the 1931 version of Mr Meade's Relation did not include a personal saving propensity. Instead it included other leakages not in the 1993 version. Attention is drawn to derivation of a finite multiplier us…
Keynes, Coordination and Beyond
Journal Article Keynes, Coordination and Beyond: The Development of Macroeconomic and Monetary Theory Since 1945 Get access Keynes, Coordination and Beyond: The Development of Macroeconomic and Monetary Theory Since 1945. By Garretsen (Harry). (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1992. Pp. ix + 228. £39.95 hardback. ISBN 1 852786205.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Irving Fisher's Debt–Deflation Theory of Great Depressions
0034–6764/94/0301–92/$l .50/0. Presented at a North American Economics and Finance Association session at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings in Anaheim,California, January 6, 1993. I am grateful to William Barber and Mary Ann Dimand for helpful comments. Notes 0034–6764/94/0301–92/$l .50/0. Presented at a North American Economics and Finance Association session at the Allied Social Science Associations meetings in Anaheim,California,…
Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and the Transition to Modern Macroeconomics
Research Article| December 01 1995 Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and the Transition to Modern Macroeconomics Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (Supplement): 247–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-27-Supplement-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and the Transiti…
Women of Value
Kalecki and Unemployment Equilibrium
Journal Article Kalecki and Unemployment Equilibrium. Get access Kalecki and Unemployment Equilibrium. By Sebastiani (Mario). (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. vi + 213. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 333 53464 6.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105, Issue 432, 1 September 1995, Pages 1312–1313, https://doi.org/10.2307/22…
Cournot, Bertrand, and Cherriman
Research Article| September 01 1995 Cournot, Bertrand, and Cherriman Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (3): 563–578. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-27-3-563 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Cournot, Bertrand, and Cherriman. History of Political Economy 1 September …
Women of Value
Journal Article Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics Get access Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics. Edited by DIMAND (MARY ANN), (ROBERT W.) Dimand and (EVELYN L.) Forget. (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995. Pp. xii + 228. £49.95 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 959 X.) J. R. Shackleton J. R. Shackleton University of Westminster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Hawtrey and the Multiplier
Research Article| September 01 1997 Hawtrey and the Multiplier Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (3): 549–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-3-549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Hawtrey and the Multiplier. History of Political Economy 1 September 1997; 29 (3)…
Davis, Keyness Philosophical Development and Mini, John Maynard Keynes
Other| June 01 1997 Davis, Keyness Philosophical Development and Mini, John Maynard Keynes: A Study in the Psychology of Original Work Piero V. Mini. Macmillan, 1994. 254 pp. $45.00. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (2): 364–366. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-2-364 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Minnie Throop England On Crises And Cycles
Minnie Throop England published important articles on crises and cycles between 1906 and 1915, but has been forgotten in the history of macroeconomics. Her promotion theory of cycles was close to Schumpeter's cycle theory, and she was an important critic of Fisher's monetary theory of fluctuations. This article examines her contributions to economics and her tumultuous career
Socializing security
Early Mathematical Economics
Other| November 01 1999 Early Mathematical Economics: William Whewell and the British Case James P. Henderson and Harvey Becher. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. xxvi; 327 pp. $69.50. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (4): 777–779. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-4-777 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplem…
Hawtrey and the Keynesian Multiplier
History of Political Economy - Volume 32, Number 4, Winter 2000
Strategic Games from Theory to Application
Research Article| December 01 2000 Strategic Games from Theory to Application Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 199–226. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-Suppl_1-199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert W. Dimand; Strategic Games from Theory to Application. History of Political Economy 1 Decemb…
Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics
Book Review| March 01 2001 Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers By Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert F. Hébert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 468 pp. $40.00. Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 179–182. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-33-1-179 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
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