MIT and the other Cambridge

Roger Backhouse

doi:10.1215/00182702-2716190

MIT and the other Cambridge

Roger Backhouse

Economics

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Discusses the reasons why MIT economists were so committed to the capital controversy that flared up in the 1960s. It is argued that it concerned problems that related to techniques with which they had already been working and which they understood, and it points to some often overlooked features of the controversy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	252-271
Number of pages	20
Journal	History of Political Economy
Volume	46
Issue number	suppl-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2716190
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2014

Keywords

MIT
capital controversy
Samuelson
Solow
Stiglitz
Robinson
Linear modeling

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