The limits of economic expertise: Prophets, engineers, and the state in the history of development economics

History of Political Economy

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 10-39

  Boettke, Peter ^a   Horwitz, Steven ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644655839     PISSN: 00182702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-37-Suppl_1-10     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Ahrens, J. 2002. Governance and Economic Development: A Comparative Institutional Approach. Cheltenham, UK.: Elgar.
2. Ayittey, George. 1994. The Failure of Development Planning in Africa. hi The Collapse of Development Planning, edited by Peter J. Boettke. New York: New York University Press.
3. Boettke, Peter J. 1990. The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
4. Boettke, Peter J. 1993. Why Perestroika Failed. New York: Routledge.
5. Boettke, Peter J. ed. 1994. Introduction to The Collapse of Development Planning. New York: New York University Press.
6. Buchanan, James, and Richard Wagner. [1977] 2000. Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes. Vol. 8 of The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan. Indianapolis, Ind.: Liberty Fund.
7. Caldwell, Bruce. 2003. Hayek's Challenge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Domar, Evsey. 1957. Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth. New York: Oxford University Press.
9. Easterly, William. 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists'Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
10. Ehrlich, Alexander. 1960. The Soviet Industrialization Debate, 1924-1928. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
11. Engels, Frederick. [1892] 1972. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. New York: International Publishers.
12. Gerschenkron, A. 1962. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
13. Hayek, F. A. 1952. The Sensory Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
14. Hayck F. A. [1931] 1995. Reflections on the Pure Theory of Money of Mr. J. M. Keynes. Reprinted in Contra Keynes and Cambridge, vol. 9 of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, edited by Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
15. Kamath, Shyam. 1994. The Failure of Development Planning in India. In The Collapse of Development Planning, edited by Peter J. Boettke. New York: New York University Press.
16. Krugman, Paul. 1995. Development, Geography, and Economic Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
17. Lerner, Abba. 1944. The Economics of Control. London: Macmillan.
18. Levy, David M. 2002. How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
19. Magnusson, Lars. 2003. Mercantilism. In The Blackwell Companion to the History of Economic Thought, edited by Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle, and John B. Davis. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
20. Marx, Karl. 1906. Capital. New York: Modern Library Edition.
21. Mirowski, Philip. 1989. More Heat Than Light. Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. North, Douglass. 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History. New York: Norton.
23. Nove, Alec. 1969. An Economic History of the USSR. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin.
24. Olson, Mancur. 1996. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor. Journal of Economic Perspectives 10.2:3-24.
25. Osterfeld, David. 1992. Prosperity versus Planning: How Government Stifles Economic Growth. New York: Oxford University Press.
26. Ostrom, E., et al. 2001. Aid, Incentives, and Sustainability: An Institutional Analysis of Development Cooperation. Stockholm, Sweden: SIDA.
27. Rajan, Raghuram. 2004. Assume Anarchy? Why an Orthodox Economic Model Might Not Be the Best Guide for Policy. Finance and Development 41.3:56-57.
28. Roberts, Paul Craig. 1971. Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
29. Smith, Adam. [1776] 1976. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Edwin Cannan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
30. Smith, Adam. [1759] 1982. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Indianapolis: Liberty Press.
31. Smith, Vernon. 2003. Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics. American Economic Review 93.3:465-508.
32. Swedberg, Richard. 1998. Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
33. Weber, Max. [1904-5] 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Scribners.
34. Weber, Max. [1927] 1995. General Economic History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction.