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A Happy new year to everyone. Here my annual list of 2003 anniversaries (to
be posted, as always, on the links site of the "The European Society for
the History of Economic Thought" (http://www.eshet-web.org/). Let me know
if something is missing.
250 years ago Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), author of Querist (1737)
and opponent of Mandeville, died.
200 years ago Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) published the second,
substantially revised and expanded edition of his "Essay on the Principles
of Population" (1803), and Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) published his
"Traite d'economie politique" (1803).
150 years ago Karl Gustav Adolph Knies (1821-1898) published "Die
politische Oekonomie vom Standpunkte der geschichtlichen Methode" (1853).
100 years ago Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903-1982), John von Neumann
(1903-1957), Joan V. Robinson (1903-1983), George L.S. Shackle (1903-1992),
and Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) were born. Karl Gustav Cassel (1866-1945)
published "The Nature and Necessity of Interest," Wesley Clair Mitchell
(1874-1984) "A History of the Greenbacks." The same year the German
Institutionalist Eberhard Friedrich Albert Schaeffle (1831-1903) died.
50 years ago, in 1953, our profession was confronted with two paradoxes:
Maurice Allais published "Fondements d'une theorie positive des choix
comportant un risque et critique des postulats et axiomes de l'Ecole
americaine," stating for the first time the "Allais Paradox," while Wassily
Leontief (1906-1999) published "Studies in the Structure of the American
Economy" and "Domestic Production and Foreign Trade: the American capital
position re-examined," stating the "Leontief Paradox." The same year saw
the publication of Milton Friedman's "The Methodology of Positive
Economics," Alvin Harvey Hansen's (1887-1975) "A Guide to Keynes," Robert
Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers," Eric Filip Lundberg's (1907-1987)
"Business Cycles and Economic Policy" (English 1957), Franco Modigliani and
Hans Neisser's "National Incomes and International Trade," Edmond
Malinvaud's "Capital Accumulation and Efficient Allocation of Resources,"
John F. Nash's "Two-Person Cooperative Games (in Econometrica)," and Ragnar
Nurkse's (1907-59) "Problems of Capital-Formation in Underdeveloped
Countries."
25 years ago, Kenneth E. Boulding (1910-1993) published "Ecodynamics: A New
Theory of Societal Evolution" and Charles Kindleberger "Manias, Panics, and
Crashes" (which sold well again 20 years later after the Asian crisis). The
same year, Jacob Viner's (1892-1970) "Religious Thought and Economic
Society" was published posthumously, Roy F. Harrod (1900-1978) and Ronald
Lindley Meek (1917-1978) died, and Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) received
the Nobel prize in Economics for his "pioneering research into the
decision-making process within economic organizations."
Thomas Moser
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