Research in the history of economic thought and methodology, Vol. 37C. including a symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 /

This volume features a symposium celebrating the centenary of the influential economist and historian of economic thought Robert Heilbroner. The volume also features original general-research contributions, as well as a new discovery of material from the archives of Richard A. Musgrave.

Front Cover -- Research In The History of Economic Thought and Methodology -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. A Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 Edited by Luca Fiorito and Harald Hagemann -- Introduction to a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100 -- Reference -- Two Worldly Philosophers: Robert Heilbroner and Adolph Lowe -- Introduction -- Adam Smith -- Joseph Alois Schumpeter -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Heilbroner on Capital and Capitalism (But Overlooking Finance) -- Capital as a System -- Capital and History -- Emergence of Capital -- Only Once in All of History -- Capital as a "Spandrel" -- Components of the Capitalist System -- All Goods and Services Are Fungible, i.e., They Are Marketed and Have Value -- Wage-labor Contract -- Forward-looking MEC Calculation, Uncertainty and Risk, Rate of Profit -- Capital and the Market -- Competition and Self-regulating Adjustment -- The Market Acts as "Selector" and Finances Winners -- Nell's Law of Institutions: "Capital Breeds What it needs" -- Capital and the State -- Rule of Law, Property and Contract -- Limited Representative Government -- Redress of Grievances -- A Quasi-metaphorical Extension of the Concept: Human Capital -- The Question of Real-financial Linkages -- Real-financial Instability -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Robert Heilbroner and Keynesian Public Finance -- Introduction -- A Primer on Government Spending -- From Primer to DD -- The Debt and the Deficit -- Keynes and Others on Public Finance -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Essays -- On Karl Marx's Evolutionary Credentials and the Marx-Mill Intellectual Relationship -- Introduction -- The Evolutionary Theme Elaborated -- Evolutionary Processes within Capitalism. -- The Acquisition of Proletarian Control -- The First Stage of Communism.

Marx as Laissez-Faire Conservative: The Economic Dimension -- Aspects of Marx's "Revisionism" and Implications for the Implementation of a Proletarian Program -- Speculations regarding Mill's Perception of "Marx" -- Concluding Notes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- I. Works by Marx and Engels -- A. Karl Marx -- B. Frederick Engels -- II. Other Works -- Social Stratification, Hereditarianism, and Eugenics. A Harvard Tale -- The Issue -- Taussig and Carver in the Progressive Era -- From Progressivism to the Interwar Years -- Sorokin's Social Mobility -- Taussig and Joslyn's American Business Leaders -- Carver's Evolving Eugenics -- A Digression: Cecil C. North's Social Differentiation -- A Harvard Tale -- Notes -- Appendix -- Chapter XXII: The Results of the Inquiry and What They Signify -- Carver, Thomas N. 1929. The Economic Test of Fitness. Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment 2(7): 3-7. -- The Economic Test of Fitness -- The British Workman -- A Qualification -- . Occupational Congestion. Birth Control Review 14(7): 198-199. Address deliverer at the Dinner Symposium on Birth Control ... -- Alsberg, Henry G. 1930. An Answer to Professor Carver. Birth Control Review 14(8): 231-232. -- References -- Part III. From the Vault -- "The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages" by Richard A. Musgrave -- Introduction -- Documenting Harvard's Fiscal Policy Seminar and Musgrave's Contribution -- Hansen, Keynes, and the Seminar as Catalyst -- Musgrave and the Fiscal Policy Seminar -- Musgrave as a Historian of Economic Thought -- Conclusions -- Acknowlegments -- References -- The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages -- The Early Setting -- Things We Talked About -- Stagnation -- Light Taxes -- Tax vs. Expenditure Changes -- Social Security -- Public Debt -- Alvin Hansen -- Notes.