Cleveland Hill Union Free School District and Cleveland Hill Education Association

Fact-finding proceeding between Cleveland Hill Union Free School District and Cleveland Hill Education Association. PERB Case No. M 2007-062. Before: Adam Kaufman, Esq. Fact Finde

(Review) Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science

Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. ix, 279, $65.00. ISBN 0-52183060-5

(Review) Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science

Pierre Force, Self-Interest Before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. ix, 279, $65.00. ISBN 0-521 83060-5

(Reviews) Economic Thought Before Adam Smith and Classical Economics

Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. By Murray N. Rothbard. Brookfield. Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1995. Pp. 556. $99.95. Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. By Murray N. Rothbard. Brookfield. Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1995. Pp. 528.$99.95

Martin Luther: Student of the Creation

Photograph of John Ling's ex-WD 6 wheel Scammell tractor - EET715, taken Forest site, 1 October 1962 side and front view

The contexts and contours of British economic literature, 1660-1760

This article explores some of the main bibliographical dimensions of economic literature at a time when there was much interest in economic matters but no discipline of economics. By looking at what was published in the round much economic literature is shown to be short, ephemeral, unacknowledged, polemical, and legistlatively orientated. This fluidity is underscored by the uncertainties about what constituted key works of economic literature and by the failure of attempts to make sense of that literature through dictionaries and histories. Economic literature in the period was, consequently, more unstable and uncertain than has often been acknowledged. It cannot, therefore, be simply characterized as either 'mercantilist' or nascent 'political economy'

Science by Conceptual Analysis: The Genius of the Late Scholastics

The late scholastics, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, contributed to many fields of knowledge other than philosophy. They developed a method of conceptual analysis that was very productive in those disciplines in which theory is relatively more important than empirical results. That includes mathematics, where the scholastics developed the analysis of continuous motion, which fed into the calculus, and the theory of risk and probability. The method came to the fore especially in the social sciences. In legal theory they developed, for example, the ethical analyses of the conditions of validity of contracts, and natural rights theory. In political theory, they introduced constitutionalism and the thought experiment of a “state of nature”. Their contributions to economics included concepts still regarded as basic, such as demand, capital, labour, and scarcity. Faculty psychology and semiotics are other areas of significance. In such disciplines, later developments rely crucially on scholastic concepts and vocabulary

Martin J.S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

It is a daunting task to review one of Martin Rudwick’s books. A former palaeontologist, Martin Rudwick is the author of many books, among which The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology (1972), The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (1985), Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World (1992), Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes (1997), The New Science of ..