Documents From and On Economic Thought

Cover......Page 1
Documents from and on Economic Thought......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Document from Henry Rogers Seager......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Henry Rogers Seager: A Brief Biography......Page 13
Commentary......Page 14
Bibliography......Page 33
Documents from Robert Hoxie and EH.NET......Page 56
Editors’ General Introduction......Page 58
References......Page 61
Further Discussion by the Editors: ‘‘Why Teach the History of Error?’’ Hoxie’s Argument Summarized......Page 73
‘‘Why Teach the History of Error?’’ The Contemporary Argument......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 103
Note......Page 105
Documents from two Students of John R. Commons......Page 108
Introduction......Page 110
Biography of Charles Herman Kinnane......Page 111
Introductory Comments......Page 112
The Correlation of Law and Economics......Page 114
The Assignment......Page 115
Introduction......Page 136
Comments......Page 137
Correlation of Law and Economics......Page 138
General......Page 140
Historical......Page 141
Judicial Control......Page 143
Questions of Law and Questions of Fact......Page 144
Guiding Considerations......Page 146
Opportunity for Arbitrariness or Mistake......Page 147
Difference in Statutes......Page 148
Conclusions......Page 149
Notes......Page 150
Document from Edwin R. A. Seligman......Page 156
Editors’ Introduction......Page 158
Notes......Page 168
References14......Page 169
Documents on and from Glenn Johnson......Page 198
Glenn L. Johnson, a Brief Biography......Page 200
Introduction......Page 201
‘‘A Postscript Attachment’’......Page 202
Glenn Johnson’s Notes on Frank H. Knight’s Course on Economic Theory, Economics 301, University of Chicago, Summer 1947......Page 242
Glenn Johnson’s Notes on Frank H. Knight’s Course on Economic Theory, Economics 301, University of Chicago, Summer 1947......Page 249
Document from Edwin E. Witte......Page 280
Notes from Edwin e. Witte’s Course on Government and Labor, Economics 249, Fall 1955: Conclusion......Page 282
III. Governmental Machinery for the Adjustment of Labor Disputes in the U.S.......Page 316