Michael V White
Biographic Data
| ID | 982963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael V White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael V |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE M V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media
Christian Thomas. Theodor Fontane: Autonomie und Telegraphie in den Gesellschaftsromanen
Retrospectives: Who Said "Debauch the Currency": Keynes or Lenin
One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that "the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency." The passage, attributed to Vladimir Illyich Lenin, appears in Keynes' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which became an international bestseller when it was published in 1919. Economic historian Frank W. Fetter and others have expressed doubt that Keynes was really quoting Lenin becaus…
Retailing Poisoned Milk? New Evidence on Keynes and Jevons's Hostility to John Stuart Mill
In his 1936 memoir of W. Stanley Jevons, J. M. Keynes argued that Jevons's pronounced hostility to the dominance of J. S. Mill's political economy was due, in large part, to the imposition of Mill's work on Jevons's teaching at Owens College (subsequently the University of) Manchester. Keynes reported that a recently discovered set of student lecture notes confirmed his argument. He was subsequently accused of poor scholarship in that regard, bec…
In the Lobby of the Energy Hotel: Jevons's Formulation of the Postclassical “Economic Problem
While the usual caveat on responsibility applies, I would like to thank John Aldrich, Robert Dixon, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Peter Groenewegen, John King, Harro Maas, Bruce McFarlane, Bert Mosselmans, and participants in a History and Methodology Group seminar, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics,University of Amsterdam, for helpful comments and/or discussion. I am particularly indebted to Philip Mirowski for detailed comments and suggestions
Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox
Research Article| November 01 2002 Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 659–683. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-4-659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools P…
Indeterminacy in Exchange: Disinterring Jevons’s Trading Bodies
Although W. S. Jevons’s use of the concept of a ‘trading body’ in his Theory of Political Economy has often been criticized as unsatisfactory, much of the subsequent commentary has obscured the role of the device in Jevons’s argument and the reason why he used it. It is shown here that the coherence of the argument depended on a peculiar claim Jevons made regarding the domain of his analysis of exchange. The claim was made to minimize the problem…
Obscure Objects of Desire: "Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of "Rare Art
Research Article| December 01 1999 Obscure Objects of Desire?: Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of “Rare Art” Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 57–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-Supplement-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; …
Bridging the Natural and the Social: Science and Character in Jevons's Political Economy
A common characterization of the “marginalist revolution” is that it focused on individuals, depicted economics as the universal application of behavioral laws of choice, and made a clear distinction between the analyses of “pure” economic theory and economic policy. This characterization effaces a number of important differences between the work of W. Stanley Jevons and later supply and demand theories. Using Jevons's discussion of reductions in…
That God-Forgotten Thornton: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour
Research Article| January 01 1994 “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (suppl_1): 149–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1994-suppl_1009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after …
Frightening the ‘Landed Fogies’: Parliamentary Politics and The Coal Question
In early 1864, disappointed by the response to his previous work, the young Manchester academic W. Stanley Jevons announced that he was undertaking a study of the so-called coal question: ‘A good publication on the subject would draw a good deal of attention ... it is necessary for the present at any rate to write on popular subjects’. When Jevons's The Coal Question (henceforth CQ ) was published in April 1865, however, it received comparatively…
Why are there no Supply and Demand Curves in Jevons
William Stanley Jevons, supply curves, demand curves
Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder
Research Article| November 01 1989 Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (4): 623–631. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-21-4-623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder. History of Political Economy 1 November 1989; 21 (4):…
Jevons In Australia: A Reassessment
Historians of economic thought have generally considered that W. S. Jevons' Australian work on political economy has little significance. This article presents three arguments for reassessing that account. First, while in Australia, Jevons formulated the basic premises of his Theory of Political Economy. Second, the key influence on him during this period was not D. Lardner, as previously thought, but Professor Maurice Pell of Sydney University. …
Kalecki's theories of economic growth and 'Development
We are ‘planners’ today, although very different in character.” Michal Kalecki “Perhaps some people have been sceptical of Kalecki's contribution to the history of economic theory because he did not demand recognition himself. Such dignified behaviour is rare in this degenerate age.” Joan Robinson
Why are there no Supply and Demand Curves in Jevons
William Stanley Jevons, supply curves, demand curves
In the Lobby of the Energy Hotel: Jevons's Formulation of the Postclassical “Economic Problem
While the usual caveat on responsibility applies, I would like to thank John Aldrich, Robert Dixon, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Peter Groenewegen, John King, Harro Maas, Bruce McFarlane, Bert Mosselmans, and participants in a History and Methodology Group seminar, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics,University of Amsterdam, for helpful comments and/or discussion. I am particularly indebted to Philip Mirowski for detailed comments and suggestions
That God-Forgotten Thornton: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour
Research Article| January 01 1994 “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (suppl_1): 149–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1994-suppl_1009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after …
Frightening the ‘Landed Fogies’: Parliamentary Politics and The Coal Question
In early 1864, disappointed by the response to his previous work, the young Manchester academic W. Stanley Jevons announced that he was undertaking a study of the so-called coal question: ‘A good publication on the subject would draw a good deal of attention ... it is necessary for the present at any rate to write on popular subjects’. When Jevons's The Coal Question (henceforth CQ ) was published in April 1865, however, it received comparatively…
Retrospectives: Who Said "Debauch the Currency": Keynes or Lenin
One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that "the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency." The passage, attributed to Vladimir Illyich Lenin, appears in Keynes' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which became an international bestseller when it was published in 1919. Economic historian Frank W. Fetter and others have expressed doubt that Keynes was really quoting Lenin becaus…
Retailing Poisoned Milk? New Evidence on Keynes and Jevons's Hostility to John Stuart Mill
In his 1936 memoir of W. Stanley Jevons, J. M. Keynes argued that Jevons's pronounced hostility to the dominance of J. S. Mill's political economy was due, in large part, to the imposition of Mill's work on Jevons's teaching at Owens College (subsequently the University of) Manchester. Keynes reported that a recently discovered set of student lecture notes confirmed his argument. He was subsequently accused of poor scholarship in that regard, bec…
Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox
Research Article| November 01 2002 Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 659–683. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-4-659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools P…
Obscure Objects of Desire: "Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of "Rare Art
Research Article| December 01 1999 Obscure Objects of Desire?: Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of “Rare Art” Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 57–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-Supplement-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; …
Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder
Research Article| November 01 1989 Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (4): 623–631. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-21-4-623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder. History of Political Economy 1 November 1989; 21 (4):…
Kalecki's theories of economic growth and 'Development
We are ‘planners’ today, although very different in character.” Michal Kalecki “Perhaps some people have been sceptical of Kalecki's contribution to the history of economic theory because he did not demand recognition himself. Such dignified behaviour is rare in this degenerate age.” Joan Robinson
Kalecki's theories of economic growth and 'Development
We are ‘planners’ today, although very different in character.” Michal Kalecki “Perhaps some people have been sceptical of Kalecki's contribution to the history of economic theory because he did not demand recognition himself. Such dignified behaviour is rare in this degenerate age.” Joan Robinson
Jevons In Australia: A Reassessment
Historians of economic thought have generally considered that W. S. Jevons' Australian work on political economy has little significance. This article presents three arguments for reassessing that account. First, while in Australia, Jevons formulated the basic premises of his Theory of Political Economy. Second, the key influence on him during this period was not D. Lardner, as previously thought, but Professor Maurice Pell of Sydney University. …
Why are there no Supply and Demand Curves in Jevons
William Stanley Jevons, supply curves, demand curves
Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder
Research Article| November 01 1989 Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1989) 21 (4): 623–631. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-21-4-623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; Jevons's Antipodean Interlude: Rejoinder. History of Political Economy 1 November 1989; 21 (4):…
Frightening the ‘Landed Fogies’: Parliamentary Politics and The Coal Question
In early 1864, disappointed by the response to his previous work, the young Manchester academic W. Stanley Jevons announced that he was undertaking a study of the so-called coal question: ‘A good publication on the subject would draw a good deal of attention ... it is necessary for the present at any rate to write on popular subjects’. When Jevons's The Coal Question (henceforth CQ ) was published in April 1865, however, it received comparatively…
Bridging the Natural and the Social: Science and Character in Jevons's Political Economy
A common characterization of the “marginalist revolution” is that it focused on individuals, depicted economics as the universal application of behavioral laws of choice, and made a clear distinction between the analyses of “pure” economic theory and economic policy. This characterization effaces a number of important differences between the work of W. Stanley Jevons and later supply and demand theories. Using Jevons's discussion of reductions in…
That God-Forgotten Thornton: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour
Research Article| January 01 1994 “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after On Labour Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (suppl_1): 149–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1994-suppl_1009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; “That God-Forgotten Thornton”: Exorcising Higgling after …
Obscure Objects of Desire: "Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of "Rare Art
Research Article| December 01 1999 Obscure Objects of Desire?: Nineteenth-Century British Economists and the Price(s) of “Rare Art” Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (Supplement): 57–84. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-31-Supplement-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michael V. White; …
Indeterminacy in Exchange: Disinterring Jevons’s Trading Bodies
Although W. S. Jevons’s use of the concept of a ‘trading body’ in his Theory of Political Economy has often been criticized as unsatisfactory, much of the subsequent commentary has obscured the role of the device in Jevons’s argument and the reason why he used it. It is shown here that the coherence of the argument depended on a peculiar claim Jevons made regarding the domain of his analysis of exchange. The claim was made to minimize the problem…
Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox
Research Article| November 01 2002 Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamonds and Water Paradox Michael V. White Michael V. White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (4): 659–683. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-34-4-659 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools P…
In the Lobby of the Energy Hotel: Jevons's Formulation of the Postclassical “Economic Problem
While the usual caveat on responsibility applies, I would like to thank John Aldrich, Robert Dixon, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Peter Groenewegen, John King, Harro Maas, Bruce McFarlane, Bert Mosselmans, and participants in a History and Methodology Group seminar, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics,University of Amsterdam, for helpful comments and/or discussion. I am particularly indebted to Philip Mirowski for detailed comments and suggestions
Retrospectives: Who Said "Debauch the Currency": Keynes or Lenin
One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that "the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency." The passage, attributed to Vladimir Illyich Lenin, appears in Keynes' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, which became an international bestseller when it was published in 1919. Economic historian Frank W. Fetter and others have expressed doubt that Keynes was really quoting Lenin becaus…
Retailing Poisoned Milk? New Evidence on Keynes and Jevons's Hostility to John Stuart Mill
In his 1936 memoir of W. Stanley Jevons, J. M. Keynes argued that Jevons's pronounced hostility to the dominance of J. S. Mill's political economy was due, in large part, to the imposition of Mill's work on Jevons's teaching at Owens College (subsequently the University of) Manchester. Keynes reported that a recently discovered set of student lecture notes confirmed his argument. He was subsequently accused of poor scholarship in that regard, bec…
Christian Thomas. Theodor Fontane: Autonomie und Telegraphie in den Gesellschaftsromanen
Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media
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