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Philippe Fontaine and Jefferson D. Pooley, Society on the Edge: Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States by Dekker, Erwin

“…Once upon a time, somewhere between 1910 and 1960, American sociology textbooks were organized around social problems: crime, mental disorders, poverty,…”
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Jan Tinbergen, een econoom op zoek naar vrede: Een discussie by Erwin Dekker

“…De belangrijkste nalatenschap van Tinbergen zijn expertise-instituten zoals het Centraal Planbureau, haar zusterorganisaties in bijvoorbeeld Turkije en…”
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Elizabeth van Dorp and the Women’s Question at the Intersection of Bourgeois Ideals and Liberal Economics by Dekker, Erwin, Cornax, Willem

“…This paper situates the work of the first Dutch female economist Elizabeth (Lizzy) van Dorp on the women’s question within her broader economic and social…”
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Exemplary Goods: Exemplars as Judgment Devices by Dekker, Erwin

“…In this article the notion of exemplars is developed to study valuation processes. It argues that exemplary goods are an important ‘judgment device’ on markets…”
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John B. Davis’ Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp. 288 + xiv, $34.99 by Dekker, Erwin

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Correction: Markets and knowledge commons: is there a difference between private and community governance of markets? by Dekker, Erwin, Kuchař, Pavel

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On emancipators, engineers, and students: The appropriate attitude of the economist by Dekker, Erwin

“…This paper presents an original conceptualization of the different attitudes economists have expressed toward their object of study. It distinguishes between a…”
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Jan Tinbergen and the Limits of Expertise: Response to My Critics by Dekker, Erwin

“…As part of a book symposium on his Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021), Erwin Dekker responds to commentaries by Mariana…”
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Review of Keith Tribe’s Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850–1950. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022, xiv + 425 pp by Dekker, Erwin

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Carl Menger’s Smithian contributions to German political economy by Kolev, Stefan, Dekker, Erwin

“…In this paper we contextualize Carl Menger’s work in relation to the transformations of German political economy from the 1860s to the 1890s. We demonstrate…”
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Entangled Economists: Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen by Dekker, Erwin

“…It is 50 years since the first Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch. This article analyzes the collaborations between these…”
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Karl Sigmund, Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science: New York, NY: Basic Books, 2017. xviii + 480 pages. $17.99 (hardcover) by Dekker, Erwin

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Schumpeter: Theorist of the avant-garde by Dekker, Erwin

“…This paper argues that Schumpeter’s 1911 edition of ‘Theory of Economic Development’ can be fruitfully read as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such…”
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Two approaches to study the value of art and culture, and the emergence of a third by Dekker, Erwin

“…This paper argues that a third approach to study the value of art and culture is emerging: the valuation approach. The paper, first, outlines the two…”
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M. Bianchi’s and R. Patalano’s: Storytelling and Choice: Rounded Globe, pp. 95 by Dekker, Erwin

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Schumpeter: Theorist of the avant-garde: The embrace of the new in Schumpeter’s original theory of economic development by Dekker, Erwin

“…This paper argues that Schumpeter’s 1911 edition of ‘Theory of Economic Development’ can be fruitfully read as a theory of the avant-garde, in line with such…”
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Entangled Economists by Dekker, Erwin

“…It is 50 years since the first Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch. This article analyzes the collaborations between these…”
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Left luggage: finding the relevant context of Austrian Economics by Dekker, Erwin

“…Recently a number of scholars, including Tony Judt and Corey Robin, have attempted to discredit Austrian economics by emphasizing the (cultural) distance…”
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Ian Kumekawa. The First Serious Optimist. A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ)2017. x, 332 pp. Ill. $35.00; £27.95 by Dekker, Erwin

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Jan Tinbergen, een econoom op zoek naar vrede: Een discussie: Reactie van de auteur by Dekker, Erwin

“…De belangrijkste nalatenschap van Tinbergen zijn expertise-instituten zoals het Centraal Planbureau, haar zusterorganisaties in bijvoorbeeld Turkije en…”
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