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Measuring Utility
Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning there has …
The Political Economy of Progress
While there had been much radical thought before John Stuart Mill, Joseph Persky argues it was Mill, as he moved to the left, who provided the radical wing of liberalism with its …
Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth
This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A W H Phillips, after whom it is named. It …
The Economy of the Word
It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity"---of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life …
Calculation and Morality
Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as …
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson
Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American …