Moving beyond the rhetoric of pluralism: Suggestions for an "inside-the-mainstream" heterodoxy
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
Post Walrasian Macro Policy and the Economics of Muddling Through
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
The systemic failure of economic methodologists
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
Vision, judgment, and disagreement among economists
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
WHY AREN'T ECONOMISTS AS IMPORTANT AS GARBAGEMEN?
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
Written Testimony of David Colander, Submitted to the Congress of the United States, House Science and Technology Committee, July 20th, 2010
Essays on the Art and Craft of Economics
David Colander
African decolonization and world disarmament
The Life and Work of Arthur (A.J.) Brown
Kenneth Button
Brown served on the Raisman Commission that reported on the challenges of decolonization of British East Africa, and as a member of the Advisory Group on Central Africa. The chapter sets out his participation in these two ventures as one of the main economists on one and as the economic expert on the other. It focuses on the way Brown applied trade and development economics to the issues that were encountered is this period of radical change in Africa. Brown, along with the likes of Oscar Lange and Wassily Leontief, also served in 1960 as the British representative in the United Nations consultative group on Economic and Social Consequences of Disarmament that explored the likely effects of large-scale disarmament on national incomes and employment. It considers Brown’s quantitative contributions to the group.
Brown’s later activities
The Life and Work of Arthur (A.J.) Brown
Kenneth Button
This chapter covers Brown’s later activities at Leeds University, when he was among (other things) a senior pro-vice-chancellor, and his work after retiring from Leeds. The latter includes serving on the Donald MacDougall Commission, a European Commission (EC) Study Group of independent economists charged with examining the future role of public finance at the Community level in the general context of European economic integration. The chapter also considers Brown’s later work, World Inflation Since 1950 (1985), in which he updates and expands his earlier analysis of the subject, making use of advances in econometric techniques, new theories of price inflation, and improved data sets.