Ross B Emmett

Dados Biográficos

ID534379
NOMERoss B Emmett
PRENOMESRoss B
SOBRENOMEEmmett
ASSINATURAEMMETT R B
AFILIAÇÕESArizona State University
ORCID0000-0002-2891-554X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS31
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES31
TOTAL COMO AUTOR29
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1992
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Presidential Address

    Open AccessRoss B EmmettARTICLEJournal of the History of…2026

    Frank Knight’s work is examined through the lens provided by the posthumous publication of his essay “Economic History” in the Dictionary of the History of Ideas in 1973. Knight identified pivotal ideas in economics from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations until the time of his retirement from the University of Chicago, with some recognition of earlier contributions. The priority he gave to liberty within economics shows in the connection between Adam…

  • T. Robert Malthus's Comparative Political Economy of Prudential Restraint

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2025Referências: 7

    Examination of the second and subsequent editions of T. Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population shows that the author created a more expansive examination of his political economy of population than that of the simple model in the Essay's first edition. In subsequent editions, the simple, ecological model gives way to a sophisticated general model of a commercial society with property rights, the rule of law, marriage laws similar t…

  • Jhet Interviews

    Open AccessRoss B EmmettARTICLEJournal of the History of…2022

    JHET Interviews: Anthony Waterman, by Ross B. Emmett

  • Better lucky than good

    Open AccessRoss B Emmett, Jesse GrabowskiARTICLEEcological Economics2022

  • Frank Knight, Max Weber, la economía de Chicago y el institucionalismo

    Open AccessRoss B Emmett, Ross EmmettARTICLERevista de Economía Institucional2021

    Este ensayo muestra la influencia de Max Weber en el interés de Frank Knight por combinar la teoría económica y la historia económica comparada. En el periodo de entreguerras –cuando la enseñanza de la economía tenía un carácter pluralista– Knight se opuso al institucionalismo y defendió el estatus científico de la teoría neoclásica, pero sus lecturas de Weber Knight lo llevaron a considerar que el equilibrio y la competencia perfecta eran “tipos…

  • Frank Knight and the Origins of Public Choice

    Open AccessDavid C Coker, Ross B EmmettARTICLEOEconomia2021Referências: 6

    Frank Knight a-t-il joué un rôle dans la formation de la théorie du Public Choice ? Nous soutenons que plusieurs aspects de la pensée de James Buchanan, qui forment bon nombre des idées fondamentales de la théorie du choix public, deviennent plus claires lorsqu’on les compare aux travaux de son professeur, Frank Knight. Buchanan est catégorique quant à sa dette envers Knight ; il l’appelle « mon professeur » et se réfère fréquemment à son travail…

  • James M. Buchanan and Frank H. Knight on democracy as “government by discussion”

    Open AccessRoss B EmmettARTICLEPublic Choice2020Citada por: 3Referências: 16

  • David Colander and Craig Freedman, Where Economics Went Wrong

    Open AccessRoss B EmmettARTICLEOEconomia2019Referências: 3

    Colander and Freedman use their story of the Chicago School’s abandonment of classical liberalism as a way to get at their fundamental argument, which is about the failure of American economics generally to maintain appreciation for both economic science and the art of economic policy. Economists, the authors argue, have subsumed art within science in the effort to turn economics into an applied policy science. The focus on the Chicago School eme…

  • Frank H. Knight (1885–1972)

    Ross B EmmettCHAPTERHandbook on the History of…2016

  • Bourgeois Equality

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEReview of Political Economy2016

    Bourgeois Equality is the third part of McCloskey’s ‘Bourgeois Era’ trilogy. The first part, Bourgeois Virtues (2006), argued that a prudence-only conception of morality in the economic realm is to

  • Economic Methodology

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2015Citada por: 3Referências: 1

    Book Review| March 01 2015 Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction. By Maas, Harro. Translated by Waters, Liz. London: Routledge, 2014. 188 pp. Cloth$160.00; paper$50.95. Ross B. Emmett Ross B. Emmett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (1): 203–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2847387 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter …

  • Economics and Theology after the Separation

    Ross B Emmett, Paul OslingtonCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook Of…2014

    The date of the separation of economics from Christian theology is debated, as is its explanation. The process also differs in Britain and America. Richard Whately and Philip Wicksteed’s accounts of the basis of separation in nineteenth-century Britain are considered, and in America the twentieth-century accounts of the impact of the Social Gospel on the founding of the American Economic Association, and of Frank Knight and Reinhold Niebuhr. Knig…

  • Defending the History of Economic Thought

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2014

    Book Review| September 01 2014 Defending the History of Economic Thought Defending the History of Economic Thought. By Kates, Steven. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013. x; 140 pp. Hardback$99.95. Ross B. Emmett Ross B. Emmett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (3): 539–540. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2796400 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permission…

  • Harry Johnson

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2013Referências: 6

    Book Review| September 01 2013 Harry Johnson: A Life in Economics Harry Johnson: A Life in Economics. By Moggridge, D. E.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxv; 486 pp. Cloth$75.00. Ross B. Emmett Ross B. Emmett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (3): 555–559. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2334821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissi…

  • Documents on Government and the Economy

    Jeff E Biddle, Jeff Biddle et al.BOOKDocuments on Government and the…2012

  • Wisconsin, Labor, Income, and Institutions

    Ross B Emmett, Marianne Johnson et al.BOOKMartin Bronfenbrenners Course In…2011

    The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent work in the history of economics and the history of science. Review essays on new publications examine a range of subjects, including: David Humes political…

  • The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics

    Ross B EmmettBOOKElgar Companion to the Chicago…2010

    Contents: Preface Introduction PART I: ESSAYS ON THE CHICAGO SCHOOL 1. The Development of Postwar Chicago Price Theory J. Daniel Hammond 2. Chicago Economics and Institutionalism Malcolm Rutherford 3. Adam Smith and the Chicago School Steven G. Medema 4. The Economic Organization: A Reader's Guide Ross B. Emmett 5. The Chicago School of Welfare Economics H. Spencer Banzhaf 6. Chicago Monetary Traditions David Laidler 7. On the Origins of a Moneta…

  • America's Economic Moralists

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2010Citada por: 2Referências: 1

    Book Review| November 01 2010 America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics By Donald E. Frey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. 249 pp. $75.00. Ross B. Emmett Ross B. Emmett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (4): 773–775. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2010-037 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sear…

  • Specializing in Interdisciplinarity

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2010Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    The social sciences at the University of Chicago are renowned for their leadership in the development of empirical investigation in their respective disciplines. The postwar Chicago school of economics is only the best known of the efforts at that university to entrench specialized competencies in the faculty and students practicing a social scientific discipline. During the same period, the Committee on Social Thought emerged as an academic inte…

  • The Religion of a Skeptic

    Ross B EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2008Referências: 5

    Frank H. Knight's antagonism to religion is well known and features prominently in his writings from the 1930s on. But during the 1920s, when he was a professor at the University of Iowa and wrote some of his most important essays on the limitations of economics, Knight was an active participant in the Iowa City Unitarian Church. Drawing on research about his association with the Unitarian Church, and his unpublished writings from the period on r…

  • Frank H. Knight's Criticism of Henry George

    Open AccessRoss B EmmettARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2008Referências: 3

    The ferocity of Knight's comments on Henry George may come as a surprise to those who are not familiar with his criticisms of other economists and philosophers. But, in fact, his criticisms of George are not due to specifically Knightian insights on George's approach, but rather reflect the different philosophical framework from which neoclassical economists like Knight think. At the core of Knight's disagreements with George is his neoclassical …

  • Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Interpretation

    Ross B EmmettCHAPTERCompanion to the History of…2007

  • Oral History and the Historical Reconstruction of Chicago Economics

    Ross B Emmett, Ross EmmettARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2007Citada por: 3Referências: 9

    Research Article| December 01 2007 Oral History and the Historical Reconstruction of Chicago Economics Ross Emmett Ross Emmett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 172–192. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-044 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ross Emmett; Oral History and the Historical Reconstruction of Ch…

  • Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

    Open AccessJeff Biddle, Warren J Samuels et al.BOOKResearch in the history of…2006

    The series presents materials in two fields, the history of economic thought, and the methodology of economics, both broadly considered. The main annual volumes present articles comparable to what one would find in a journal, except that long pieces are welcome. Also presented are review essays on new works in the two fields, some of which are multiple reviews; plus occasional mini-symposia. The archival supplements present hitherto unpublished m…

  • Research in the history of economic thought and methodology

    Jeff Biddle, Ross B Emmett et al.BOOKResearch in the history of…2006