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Economists and the Shadow of “The Other” Before 1914
Author(s) -
Dimand Robert W.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2005.00393.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , shadow (psychology) , capital (architecture) , class (philosophy) , race (biology) , positive economics , economics , sociology , gender studies , philosophy , history , epistemology , psychology , psychoanalysis , anthropology , archaeology
A bstract This paper examines how economists from David Hume to Irving Fisher have struggled with the applicability of their analyses to those who differed from them in gender, ethnicity, class, or race. Particular attention is paid to how Fisher's discussion of racial and ethnic differences in capital accumulation and time preference changed between The Rate of Interest (1907) and The Theory of Interest (1930), and how it drew on earlier work by John Rae (to whom Fisher dedicated both those books).