ABSTRACT: Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, in their book Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (Princeton University Press, 2016), explore the reasons for the decline in the share of income captured by top earners in industrialized nations. Embedded in their take on the “Greatest Leveling” is a push for progressive
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 572–577 It is a shame that most economic students, whether at the undergraduate or graduate student level, are exposed to precious little about the different schools of economic thought. Most course work is based on the “Neoclassical synthesis” with mathematical models and
Abstract : Murray Rothbard wrote an unpublished note in the early 1960s on the economics of antebellum slavery. Essentially, it was a criticism of the methodology of the New Economic History, or cliometrics, of which Conrad and Meyer (1958a) was the breakthrough application, on the topic of the profitability of slavery. Rothbard points out that
[ Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, nº 2 (Verano 2018): pp. 158-162] SINOPSIS: Peter H. Lindert y Jeffrey G. Williamson, en su libro Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (Princeton University Press, 2016), investigan las razones de la decadencia en la porción de renta captada por la gente con mayores ganancias en
Resumen : Murray Rothbard escribió una nota inédita a principios de los sesenta sobre la economía de la esclavitud antes de la Guerra Civil estadounidense. Esencialmente, fue una crítica a la metodología de la Nueva Historia Económica, o cliométrica, de la cual Conrad y Meyer (1958a) fue la aplicación innovadora, sobre el tema de la rentabilidad
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