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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEOCLASSICAL TRADITION IN LABOR ECONOMICS.(bibliography included)

From: Industrial and Labor Relations Review  |  Date: 1/1/2001  |  Author: BOYER, GEORGE R.; SMITH, ROBERT S.

ROBERT S. SMITH [*]

This essay on labor economics examines neoclassical theory's rise to ascendancy following the second World War, with a secondary focus on the relative decline but continued influence of institutionalist economic theory. The authors describe the evolution of institutional and neoclassical theory from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, examine some early intellectual debates between the two camps, briefly describe the work of neoclassical labor ...

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