Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Volume 25B: Documents From the History of Economic Thought (Research in the History of Economic ... History of Economic Thought and Methodology)

331 Pages·2007·1.36 MB·English

by  Warren J. Samuels

DOCUMENTS FROM THE HISTORY
OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY
OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
AND METHODOLOGY
Series Editors: Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and
Ross B. Emmett
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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
AND METHODOLOGY VOLUME 25-B
DOCUMENTS FROM THE
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC
THOUGHT
EDITED BY
WARREN J. SAMUELS
Department of Economics, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
A TYPESETTER’S SENSE OF HUMOR
Warren J. Samuels 1
GLENN JOHNSON’S NOTES FROM CHARLES
M. HARDIN’S COURSE,THE POLITICS
OF AGRICULTURE, POLITICAL SCIENCE 334,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, FALL 1947
Warren J. Samuels (Editor) 5
NOTES FROM CHARLTON W. TEBEAU’S COURSE,
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY,
HISTORY 329, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI,
SPRING SEMESTER 1953
Notes taken and edited by Warren J. Samuels 47
INSTITUTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS:
JOURNAL ENTRIES FOR STUDENTS
AND COLLEAGUES
A. Allan Schmid 129
ERRATA 321
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Warren J. Samuels Department of Economics, Michigan State
University, USA
A. Allan Schmid Department of Agricultural Economics,
Michigan State University, USA
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A TYPESETTER’S SENSE OF HUMOR
Warren J. Samuels
In 1984,Henry W. Spiegel and I edited and published Contemporary Economists
in Perspective, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, a two-volume sequel to Spiegel’s The
Development of Economic Thought:Great Economists in Perspective,New York:
Wiley,1952. Like its famous predecessor,our collection comprised evaluations of
the work of particular economists by other economists. One contribution was Fritz
Machlup on Friedrich von Hayek, reprinted from the Scandinavian (formerly
Swedish) Journal of Economics,1974.
While proofreading with Michael Plummer, then a graduate student assistant,
I discovered a surprise in a paragraph on what would be published on p. 268 in the
first of the two Spiegel–Samuels volumes. Most of one paragraph (except for most
of the first line) had been translated into Russian by the typesetter who had reset
fresh type. The original xeroxed material comprises most of the long page pub-
lished below. At the bottom is the long quote in the typesetter’s Russian-language
translation. The second page is the contents of p. 268 of our collection, the
Russian having been restored to the original English. One can surmise that a well-
read typesetter did not sympathize with Hayek’s use-of-knowledge argument
against central planning and decided to have fun with Hayek by translating his
words into Russian. The translation had been discovered earlier by the publisher’s
in-house proofreader.
It remains only to note that the publisher of the Spiegel–Samuels volumes was
the original publisher of this Annual.
Documents From the History of Economic Thought
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology,Volume 25-B,1–3
© 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
ISSN:0743-4154/doi:10.1016/S0743-4154(06)25018-1
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