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Review Of The Rise Of Political Economy As A Science By Deborah Redman, John B. Davis Dec 1998

Review Of The Rise Of Political Economy As A Science By Deborah Redman, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Economics Of Thomas Robert Malthus By S. Hollander, John B. Davis Sep 1998

Review Of The Economics Of Thomas Robert Malthus By S. Hollander, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Two-Country Models Of Monetary And Fiscal Policy: What Have We Learned? What More Can We Learn?, Joseph Daniels Jul 1998

Two-Country Models Of Monetary And Fiscal Policy: What Have We Learned? What More Can We Learn?, Joseph Daniels

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This paper surveys the literature that uses two-country models to analyze monetary and fiscal policy issues faced in interdependent economies. We discuss sources of structural interdependence that researchers typically include in these models. We describe many of the types of policy interactions that researchers have considered and summarize the key results that they have obtained. Finally, we briefly explain the limitations of two-country models and outline directions that this literature might usefully be extended.

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Improving Local Manufacturing Employment Forecasts Using Cointegration Analysis, Steven E. Crane, Farrokh Nourzad Apr 1998

Improving Local Manufacturing Employment Forecasts Using Cointegration Analysis, Steven E. Crane, Farrokh Nourzad

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Procedures for tracking and forecasting economic conditions in regional economies have evolved significantly over the last 30 years. Much of this evolution has followed developments in macroeconomics, where techniques for tracking/forecasting key economic variables have tended to originate. This technique adoption and adaptation process continues today, as developments in the technique adoption and adaptation process continues today, as developments in the modeling of cointegrated macroeconomic time series have begun to appear in the regional modeling and forecasting literature. This paper presents an effort at modeling a segment of a regional economy using the cointegration testing procedures suggested by Johansen and …

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Ricardo, David, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Ricardo, David, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Infrastructure Capital And Private Sector Productivity: A Dynamic Analysis, Farrokh Nourzad Jan 1998

Infrastructure Capital And Private Sector Productivity: A Dynamic Analysis, Farrokh Nourzad

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This paper examines the relationship between public capital and private sector productivity in the context of a dynamic framework that distinguishes long-run equilibrium relations from short-run disequilibrium values. Using annual data covering the 1948-1987 period we find that there is a stable long-run relationship among private sector productivity, private inputs of capital and labor, and core infrastructure capital. Public capital exerts a positive influence on private sector productivity along this path, although the effect is statistically significant only at low levels of confidence. On the other hand, there appears to be no discernible effect on productivity by core infrastructure capital …

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Problems In Using The Social Science Citation Index To Rank Journals, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Problems In Using The Social Science Citation Index To Rank Journals, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Sraffa And Keynes: Differences And Shared Preconceptions, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Sraffa And Keynes: Differences And Shared Preconceptions, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

The relationship between the thinking and work of Sraffa and Keynes is complex and controversial. This paper approaches it initially through an investigation of their respective interpretations of their predecessors, the classical economics and Marshall. Keynes is argued to have misinterpreted the classicals on Say's Law largely on account of his having accepting Marshall's continuity conception of the relation of classical to neoclassical economics. Sraffa's understanding of classical economics as being rooted in a different conception of value and distribution is opposed to Keynes's view. Yet though the two differed at this fundamental level, an argument can be made for …

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Organicism, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Organicism, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Human Action And Agency, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Human Action And Agency, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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New Keynesians, Post Keynesians And History, John B. Davis Jan 1998

New Keynesians, Post Keynesians And History, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Conventions, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Conventions, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Conventions, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Conventions, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Health Care In Social Economics, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Health Care In Social Economics, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Sraffa's Early Philosophical Thinking, John B. Davis Jan 1998

Sraffa's Early Philosophical Thinking, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This paper investigates a number of aspects of Piero Sraffa's early philosophical thinking by placing him within the historical materialist tradition of reasoning about the relation of ideas to the historical process. It first distinguishes Alfred Marshall's views about the historical development of ideas by addressing Marshall's responses to the criticisms of William Cunningham of the English Historical School. Marshall's concept of economics as a universal engine of discovery was rejected by Sraffa in his early writings. Sraffa's critique of Marshall is then argued to lead to two early philosophical commitments on Sraffa's part: that deductivist modes of explanation are …

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Justice, John B. Davis Jan 1998