The Enigma of Knowledge

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Notes

1. Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) (London: Macmillan & Co., 2011), 106.

2. Walter Isard, Location and Space-Economy: A General Theory Relating to Industrial Location, Market Areas, Land Use, Trade, and Urban Structure (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1956); Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman, and Anthony J. Venables, The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).

3. Marcel Herbst, “The Poverty of Economics,” The European Legacy 17.7 (2012): 944-47.

4. Milton Friedman, Essays in Positive Economics (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1953), 15.

5. Kenneth E. Boulding, The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1961); Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology (1952; Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1999).

6. Adelbert Ames Jr., “Visual Perception and the Rotating Trapezoidal Window,” Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 65.7 (1951): 1–32.

7. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (New York, NY: Picador, 1998); Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), in vol. 2 of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, 2d ed. (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1970).

8. C. West Churchman, Prediction and Optimal Decision: Philosophical Issues of a Science of Values (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961); “The Role of Weltanschauung in Problem Solving and Inquiry,” in Theoretical Approaches to Non-Numerical Problem Solving, ed. R. Banerji and M. M. Mesarovic (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1970), 141.

9. Annalee Saxenian, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994).

10. Paul A. Samuelson, “The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure,” The Review of Economics and Statistics 36.4 (November 1954): 387–89; Alfred E. Kahn, “The Tyranny of Small Decisions: Market Failures, Imperfections, and the Limits of Economics,” Kyklos 19 (1966): 23ff.

11. Masahisa Fujita and Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

12. Marcel Herbst, “Academic Organization and Scientific Productivity,” in The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David, ed. Marcel Herbst, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 302 (Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media, 2014), 15–35.