Henry George: The Economist as Moralist*

Abstract . Henry George derived his economic theory from his personal experience. He had the good fortune to be living in California during his formative years; there the economic events which transpired during the settlement of the North American continent—the passing of the frontier and its consequences—occurred within a time span of a few years and the telescoping of history gave him the framework for an original economic system, as well as a utopian vision of a free society. Much attention has properly been paid to George's economic ideas but he was also a moralist, one accepted by some philosophers as among the greatest. This aspect of his work, and particularly his value theory, have been neglected.     

首都经济学家新春论坛——记第84次开达经济学家论坛(上)

2007年1月27日下午，北京开达经济学家侮询中心发起召开的首都经济学界新春联谊会隆重举行。二百多名在京专家学者欢聚一堂，在共庆新春佳节的同时，畅所欲言，笑谈过去，眺望未来。     

彭瑞玲:搏击中流的经济学家

现年69周岁的哈工大经济学教授彭瑞玲,心里始终装着黑龙江省的老百姓.80年代,她在教改第一线,创造了教书育人的丰富经验,受到国家领导人的亲切接见;90年代,她活跃在科研战线,为提高黑龙江省经济技术的国际竞争力做出了突出贡献.彭瑞玲比别人更加敏锐地体察到种种挑战的紧迫性,时刻感觉到知识经济时代的挑战、经济全球化的挑战、加入WTO的挑战如潮水一般,迅猛袭来,她总是自觉地把自己置身于大潮的中流,奋勇搏击,一心扑在应对挑战的研究上,全力策划着影响战略全局的对应措施.     

矢志推进中国改革开放的经济学家——张卓元经济思想述要

张卓元（1933-）是中国当代最有名的经济学家之一,他早年就读于中山大学和中南财经学院（现中南财经政法大学）,毕业后到中国科学院、中国社会科学院工作,历任财贸经济研究所、工业经济研究所、经济研究所所长,先后担任《财贸经济》、《经济管理》、《经济研究》主编,1990年被评为国家级有突出贡献的中青年专家,1991年7月被评为获政府特殊津贴专家。曾获孙冶方经济科学论文奖、著作奖,     

Letter to a Young Economist

Professor Prest prepares a recently graduated student of economics for the traps and tripwires of his profession. He is reticent about his allusions, and readers may guess - or grimace - at the organisations and individuals he has in mind.     

Emily Greene Balch,Political Economist

The first female economist to win a Nobel Prize was Emily Greene Balch, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for the same anti‐war activism for which she lost her Wellesley professorship of economics and sociology in 1918. Balch, an outspoken pacifist, social reformer, and defender of ethnically‐diverse immigration, has largely been forgotten in the history of economic thought and of sociology. Her contributions and her remarkable career warrant attention.     

一个实战派经济学家的阅读

钟朋荣看书的时候，有时做笔记，有时在书上乱画，有时他一两天就能看完一本书，遇到很精彩的书也会一口气读完     

刘方棫在求索中创新的经济学大家

刘方棫教授是北京大学经济学院教授,著名经济学家,我国消费经济学和生产力经济学的主要倡导者和创始人之一,国内消费经济学研究方向第一位博士研究生导师,主要研究方向为社会主义经济理论与实践、消费经济学和生产力经济学.刘方棫教授在这些研究领域均作出了突出的贡献,先后荣获孙冶方经济科学"优秀著作"奖等奖项;刘方棫教授为人谦和,学术造诣非凡,是无愧谦谦君子,一代宗师的经济学大家.     

The Price-Wage Mechanism in Poland: An Endogenous Switching Model

This paper proposes a two-equation price-wage model that enables to test whether the inflationary pressure on wage rate is only present when the rate of inflation is greater than some threshold value. Since the likelihood function for this model is very nonstandard, we develop a small-sample Bayesian approach to estimate its parameters. Our empirical results for Poland, 1962–1993, give support to the hypothesis of the price- wage spiral with a positive threshold value of inflation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Selected Elements of Henry George's Legitimacy as an Economist

A bstract . Henry George's legitimacy as an economist has been denied in much of the literature of the history of economic thought and by some economists who were his approximate contemporaries. These denials have shaped the prevailing negative view of George's economics. An examination of selected representative evidence from George's work fails to support the negative view. George's positions on "The Study of Political Economy," eloquently presented in his 1877 speech to the faculty at the University of California, ate consistent with (and predate) "accepted,""orthodox,""legitimate" views of political economy expressed a decade and more later by J. Laurence Laughlin and Charles F. Dunbar in early classic articles that signified the emergence of economics as an identifiable profession in the United States. Other evidence reveals that George avoided the Ricardian error of failing to understand the role of factor and product substitution in the process of market equilibrium adjustments.     

Max Weber as an Economist and as a Sociologist

A bstract In this article I first give a picture of Weber as an economist, mainly by focussing on a text which he distributed to his students when he taught economics in the 1890s. From this text it is, for example, clear that Weber was positive to the use of marginal utility theory in theoretical economics, but also felt that this approach was insufficient, by itself, to analyze empirical phenomena. I then outline Weber's work in economic sociology, relying primarily on Economy and Society and its central Chapter 2 (Sociological Categories of Economic Action). The differences between the approaches of economic theory and economic sociology, as seen by Weber, are summarized, and an account is given of some of Weber's most suggestive concepts in economic sociology. In the concluding section the question is raised as to when the analyst, according to Weber, should use economic sociology rather than economic theory, and vice versa. Weber's ideas about a broad economic science–what he termed Sozialökonomik or social economics–are also presented.     

Endogenous growth theory: a critique

Endogenous growth theory is based on a misperception of how science and technology are acquired and diffused. In particular, it is incorrect to assume that knowledge is freely available. Any knowledge which has economic value has to be accessed via the brains of experts who are members of the relevant 'invisible college' and are rivalrous.It therefore has the characteristics of a private good which can be left to conventional economic incentives to supply.     

区域经济增长差距扩大的内生机制分析

本文通过引入人力资本的溢出效益,在对均衡经济长路径求解的基础上,说明人力资本积累效率的差距将内生地导致我国区域经济增长水平差距的扩大,本文的分析说明了政府通过对人力资本积累进行补贴,进而实现区域经济平衡发展是一个可行的选择。