“What Blackstone and the Founding Fathers had in common, and what Bentham notably lacked, was a large tolerance for complexity.” Gertrude Himmelfarb's examination of Jeremy Bentham's 'A Fragment on Government,' republished in EJW:
Edmund Burke's "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity," his most general expression of his views in political economy, shows a sensitive appreciation of the particularism of social affairs. The essay is newly republished in EJW, with a foreword from our editor:
In the new EJW: "Misrepresenting Mises: Quotation Editing and a Rejection of Peer Review at Cambridge University Press" by
@PhilWMagness
and Amelia Janaskie of
@AIER
The introduction and first two chapters of David K. Lewis's classic "Convention: A Philosophical Study," newly reprinted in EJW with a foreword from our editor.
David Barker, co-editor of EJW, testifying before Congress today, based on his three EJW articles on temperature and economic growth (starting at 54:00):
Barker's three EJW articles on the topic:
In the new EJW:
@PhilWMagness
of
@BerryCollege
takes to task an
@AEAjournals
review of Thomas Leonard's book 'Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era.'
EJW Audio: Evan Osborne of
@WrightState
discusses Joan Robinson’s communism and how it has been treated by scholars, based on his EJW article “Captive of One’s Own Theory: Joan Robinson and Maoist China.”
Steve Walker on misconduct at the Journal of Accounting Research:
If JAR weren’t sweeping misconduct under the rug, they would demonstrate that. They’ve failed to demonstrate that—three times.
In the new EJW: George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey, editors of 'The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics,' say an
@AEAJournals
review "misrepresented the book quite badly."
"The Leamer critique caused economists to largely abandon ordinary multiple regression and to instead employ more credible research designs, such as natural experiments."
In the new EJW: "Gender, Race and Ethnicity, and Inequality Research in the American Economic Review and the American Economic Association's Conference Papers" by Jeremy Horpedahl (
@JMHorp
) and Arnold Kling (
@KlingBlog
)
EJW Audio: Phil Magness criticizes Quinn Slobodian’s work on Ludwig von Mises and criticizes the Cambridge University Press journal 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 for failing to choose truth above falsehood.
"Adam Smith’s Library": In our current issue, we reproduce by permission the 1967 checklist created by Hiroshi Mizuta of the titles that were owned by Smith.
"The DGE method proposed in Solis-Garcia and Xie (2018) was intended to overcome some of the limitations of previous approaches. Unfortunately, it does not serve its purpose of estimating the ratio of shadow to formal production."
One of the aspects of Milton Friedman’s work which won him the Nobel Prize was “his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.” What did that mean? James Forder and Hugo Monnery consider that question in the new EJW:
EJW Audio:
@KarenIlseHorn
and Stefan Kolev (
@OrdoliberalBG
) describe Carl Menger’s conflict with Gustav Schmoller, leader of the Younger German Historical School—a conflict known as the Methodenstreit.
Also in the new EJW: "A Response to 'Critique of an Article on Machine Learning in the Detection of Accounting Fraud'" by Yang Bao of
@SJTU1896
, Bin Ke (
@KeBin_Singapore
), Bin Li of
@WHUni_official
, Y. Julia Yu of
@UVa
, and Jie Zhang of
@NTUsg
"All of my lines of argument against Grubb’s work on colonial New Jersey are designed to demolish a beam holding up a vast structure that needs to come down."