Editing Economics: Essays in Honour of Mark Perlman [Hardcover]

Mark Perlman was the founding editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and responsible for issues from 1969 until 1980 when he retired. He has also written and edited a number of books and articles, concentrating on aspects of the labour market, population growth, health economics, the environment and the history of economics. His extraordinarily significant contribution to economics has been recognized by Economists worldwide and in 2000 the History of Economics Society made him their Distinguished Fellow.
In this volume, eighteen scholars have contributed chapters exploring themes such as an evaluation of Mark Perlman's written contributions, the history of economic theory and applied economics.In this volume eighteen scholars have contributed chapters exploring themes such as the history of economic theory, applied economics and an evaluation of Mark Perlman's written contributionsIntroduction PART I An evaluation of Mark Perlmans written contributions 1 The participant observer in the formation of economic thought: Summa Deconomiae Perlmanansis PART II Editing and intolerance in the profession 2 Parallels and differences in editing academic journals; Mark Perlman as a pioneer and role model 3 Pastiches from an earlier politically incorrect academic age PART III Economic, political and social systems 4 Communitarianism and welfare state dynamics:a European perspective 5 The inevitable price of totalitarianism: an economists perspective 6 Communitarianism and the individual 7 East Asian economic crisis and the communitarian development model PART IV History of economic theory 8 Knut Wicksell as a classic and as a social thinker 9 On Klants methodology and the natural order in Adam Smith PART V Economic theory 10 Has capital theory been the victim of the quest for generality and rigor? 11 Evolutionary economics, its basic concepts and methods. A tribute to Mark Perlman, Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics 199196 12 ls‹