By Lluís Barbé (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) En contrast amb els textos usuals, aquest Curs d'Introducció a l'Economia està estructurat basant-se en les escoles del pensament econòmic. Això permet de mostrar que, a més de la microeconomia i la macroeconomia dissenyades pels autors neoclàssics i keynesians, hi ha d'altres continguts, sovint deixats de banda, però del … Continued
Edited by A. W. Coats (NHC Fellow, 1983–84)
By Bernard Semmel (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) In The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire, noted historian Bernard Semmel traces the evolution of the ideas about imperialism and discusses four major schools of thought: the classical economists, the social theorists, the national economists, and the Marxists.
By Lluís Barbé (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
By Harold D. Woodman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Examines the legal and economic strategies adopted by southern landowners to cultivate and profit from their land when the abolition of chattel slavery deprived them of their primary form of wealth and credit. Woodman (history, Purdue U.) explores the evolution of these strategies and how they affected the … Continued
By Robert E. Lane (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) In a period when market economies are widely recognized as the most desirable form of economic organization, Robert Lane offers evidence that the major premises of market economics are mistaken. Lane shows that work, far from being a disutility, as economic theory would have it, is instead one … Continued
By Lluís Barbé (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)
By T. H. Breen (NHC Fellow, 1983–84; 1995–96) The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a … Continued
By Michael A. Bernstein (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the “wealth of nations.” It grew into a profession of immense public prestige — and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, … Continued