Old-fashioned political economists had an idea that wealth was material things used to
promote the welfare of human beings. They got confused in their idea of capital, which in …

Originally published in 1971, this report presents Dr Jánossy's attempt to demonstrate that
all post-war economic 'miracles' lasted only until production levels reached the levels they …

THE theory of economic progress is one of the main features of Fran<; ois Simiand's work. It
is the subject of one of the last chapters of the final volume of his Cours d'Economie …

The universe of the social scientist is a multiply determined one, and in his scheme a
complex phenomenon like economic growth must be a function of a number of elements1 …

That David Ricardo was a close friend of Thomas Smith has long been known. The twenty-
odd letters, now in the Ricardo Papers at Cambridge, are witness to a relationship that …

1950] ECONOMIC PROGRESS, RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 465 early nineteenth
century, and in the Victorian heyday Jevons had created some despondency by pointing to …

The relationship between Piero Sraffa, s (1960) Production of Commodities by Means of
Commodities and John von Neumann, s ([1937] 1945) paper on economic growth has given …

Reflec tions'* are not a research paper but a discourse. They contain no formulas,
mathematical appendixes, statistical tables, and footnotes, the indispensable props of my …

In his review of economic development 'From the beginning to Rostow'Robert Dorfman2
gives a sketch of his view of the history of economic thought on the subject of development …

Economic development and growth have become the very center of inquiry for economists
today, almost to the point of tediousness. When economics began in the eighteenth century …