Ginny Freeman

Ginny Freeman, retired long time ILR Registrar, respected colleague, and friend died from a battle with cancer Thursday, October 28th at home in Ithaca. We know that many students, faculty and staff were positively impacted by having worked with Ginny during her 47 years of dedicated service to the ILR School. Ginny provided a wealth of knowledge and advice and support to students, faculty, and colleagues over the years and will be sorely missed

A Troika of Agitators: Three Comintern Liaison Agents in Australia, 1920-22

Peter Simonoff, Consul-General in Australia for the Bolshevik regime from early 1918 to mid-1921, is known to have played an active role in the founding of the Communist Party of Australia in 1920, and in promoting the "Trades Hall" faction against the ASP faction when the new party divided. Paul Freeman and Alexander Zuzenko, both deported from Australia in 1919, made return visits to Australia from Moscow in 1921 and 1922 to carry the process further. Freeman, however, backed the ASP faction, while Zuzenko lent his support to "Trades Hall". This paper uses previously unknown reports to the Comintern's Executive Committee (ECCI) from Simonoff, Freeman and Zuzenko, as well as Australian sources, to study the relations between these men and their mutually contradictory actions

The ABC\u27s of Schizophrenia

SCHIZOPHRENIA GENESIS, THE ORIGINS OF MADNESS Irving I. Gottesman W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1991 296 pages, $14.95, paperbac

Freeman Tilden and the Civil War

I spend a great deal of my time on the blog preaching (some might call it my soapbox) about the mantra, “Beyond the Battlefield,” and how Civil War battlefield interpretation should go beyond just the tactics used during the battle and military matters. Some have called me crazy, some have told me I am flat out wrong about what visitor’s want, and some have told me that if I talk about these things, I will fail. The problem with all those statements though, is that they imply that I am alone in this ideology. [excerpt

Technological innovation, institutions and human purposefulness in socioeconomic evolution: A preface to Christopher Freeman "Systems of Innovation. Selected Essays in Evolutionary Economics"

Christopher Freeman; National Systems of Innovation; Techno-economic paradigms; Variety of capitalisms; Political economics; Evolutionary Economics

On Dyson's crank conjecture and the uniform asymptotic behavior of certain inverse theta functions

In this paper we prove a longstanding conjecture by Freeman Dyson concerning the limiting shape of the crank generating function. We fit this function in a more general family of inverse theta functions which play a key role in physics.Comment: Some error bounds have been fixe

The Psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism

This text comprises chapter 1 of Marx and non-equilibrium Economics[1]. It specifies a non-equilibrium (temporal) interpretation of Marx’s theory of value which demonstrates a fully consistent transformation of values into prices and reproduces Marx’s tendential law of the falling profit rate. It seeks to explain why this approach to value is inaccessible to consciousness under present social relations, and why resistance to its acceptance has been particularly strong among Marxists. [1] Freeman, A. (1996b) ‘The psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism’, in Freeman, A.. and Carchedi, G. (eds) (1996), Marx and Non-Equilibrium Economics, pp1-29. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 1 85898 268 5.Temporalism; TSSI; Value; Marx; rate of profit; transformation; non-equilibrium; Walras;

Long Waves: Conceptual, Empirical and Modelling Issues

The theory of long waves is exceptionally fortunate in that, while there is no general consensus that they exist or, assuming that they do, what an appropriate theory should be, due to the unstinting efforts of several researchers, we have encyclopaedic compendia of the literature (Freeman 1996, Reijnders and Louçã 1999) and a recent valiant attempt to write modern economic history from a long-wave perspective (Freeman and Louçã 2001). The purpose of this entry is to succinctly review the controversy about what long waves might mean as a phenomenon, how they might be measured and modelled, and where they might fit into an overarching theory of economic dynamics and evolution.economics of technology ;