Laurence S. Moss 1944 - 2009 Academic Iconoclast, Economist and Magician

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ISBN: 9781444335606 | 144433560X
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Copyright: 3/8/2010

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This memorial volume celebrates the life of Laurence Moss, the scholar, economist, professor, journal editor, lawyer, magician and skeptic. This volume contains a complete listing of Moss's publications since 1973 together with a sample syllabus of the famous course he taught at Babson College, "Scams and Frauds in Business." The chosen papers are a representative sample of Moss's approach to the field of economics, as well as the teaching of economics, and reception of his approach.

Frontispieces	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. 1
Introduction	p. 5
Laurence Steven Moss, 1944--2009: A Biographical Sketch	p. 14
Remembrance and Appreciation Roundtable
Remembering Larry Moss	p. 35
Cultivating Catallactics: Laurence Moss as Scholar and Mentor	p. 40
Larry Moss: One of the Good Guys in Economics	p. 45
Larry Moss: An Editorial Appreciation	p. 49
Continuing a Conversation with Larry Moss	p. 51
The Preaching Must Never Stop: Remembering Larry Moss	p. 58
Laurence Moss: A Remembrance	p. 64
Larry Moss and the Struggle Against Racism by the Whately Professors of Political Economy	p. 67
The Case for Economic Reasoning in MBA Education Revisited	p. 78
Working with Larry Moss and Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson	p. 85
Laurence S. Moss, 1944--2009	p. 90
On Laurence Moss: Unafraid to Say the Emperor Has No Clothes	p. 135
Laurence S. Moss as a Young Scholar	p. 139
Arguing Economics: In Memory of Laurence Moss
Alfred Marshell and the Concept of Class	p. 151
Richard Whately and the Gospel of Transparency	p. 166
Hermeneutics and the Heidegger = Schumpeter Theses	p. 188
Laurence Moss: Magician, Lawyer, Professor
Larry and the Feds	p. 203
Equal Access of Justice for All	p. 206
Laurence Moss as Exceptional Professor	p. 208
Selected Works of Laurence Moss
Isaac Butt and the Early Development of the Marginal Utility Theory of Imputation	p. 210
Mountifort Longfield's Supply-and-Demand Theory of Price and Its Place in the Development of British Economic Theory	p. 232
Carl Menger's theory of Exchange	p. 266
Film and the Transmission of Economic Knowledge: A Report	p. 290
Optimal Jurisdictions and the Economic Theory of the State: Or, Anarchy and One-World Government Are Only Corner Solutions	p. 321
Hayek's Ricardo Effect: A Second Look	p. 333
Evolutionary Change and Marshall's Abandoned Second Volume	p. 359
The Chicago Intellectual Property Rights Tradition and the Reconciliation of Coase and Hayek	p. 375
Thomas Hobbes's Influence on David Hume: The Emergence of a Public Choice Tradition	p. 398
Finding New Wine in Old Bottles: What Historians Must Do When Leontief Coefficients Are No Longer the Designated Drivers of Economics	p. 431
Ricardian Economics: Reasoning About Counterintuitive Tendencies When System Constraints Are Present	p. 461
Hobbes and the Early Uses of Economic Method	p. 499
The Seligman-Edgeworth debate About the Analysis of Tax Incidence: The Advent of Mathematical Economics, 1892--1910	p. 524
The Henry George Theorem and the Entrepreneurial Process: Turning Henry George on his Head	p. 563
Playing Fast and Loose with the Facts About the Writings of malthus and the Classical School	p. 586
Price Theory and the Study of Deception in the Exchange Process	p. 595
Publications	p. 629
Syllabus on Scams and Frauds in Business, Fall 2006	p. 642
Typical Day Sheet Prepared for Each Class	p. 654
Index	p. 662
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