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An unfinished manuscript in the form of an integrated “book review” economic philosophers born in the period 1750-1800. Focuses on the writing of Saint-Simon, Say, Ricardo and Comte. Only Ricardo, however, is discussed at length. There are short reviews of Saint-Simon and Say but Comte is only mentioned in name. Follows the format established by the previous parts. See also, “Book Reviews on Economics: Part 1,” “Book Reviews on Economics: Part 2” and “Book Reviews…
A collection of several unfinished manuscripts. A total of 15 pages containing biographical sketches of 53 economic philosophers which Warfield planned to use in his ongoing project that used ISM to structure historical economic concepts. He completed drafts of Parts 1, 2 and 3 but planned to complete a total of 11. See notes field for a list of the different thinkers Warfield had selected to focus. For the completed drafts, see “Book Reviews on…
An unfinished manuscript that is an explanation of Warfield’s Economics Research project, what he hoped to accomplish, and how long he thought it would take. His goal was to define a set of usable standards by which a governing body could judge and/or build economic policy, using Interactive Management practices and concepts he had developed.
An email to Ray Harrell in which Warfield explains the method and interpretive system he intended to use in writing a paper on Economics Research.
Chronological description of the contributions made by Aristotle, through Abelard, Leibniz, Boole, De Morgan, Peirce and Harary. Warfield sees these men as the fathers of the development of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and is a graphical depiction of the “history of ideas.” The contributions from the thinking of Aristotle, through Abelard, Leibniz, Boole, De Morgan, Peirce and Harary are described briefly and fitted chronologically into a table on just one page, creating a display of…
An exchange of email messages between Warfield and Zhichang Zhu, the book review editor for Systems Research Journal. As part of his ongoing Economics Research project, Warfield was considering submitting both a book review and an article related to the book’s theme at the same time.
A draft manuscript that explores the philosophies of various economists and presents his own approach to the study of economics. This was meant as a preface or introduction to his larger project. Writers mentioned include Rothbard, Foucault, von Mises, Warfield, Saint-Simon, Comte, Adam Smith, Jevons, Hayek, Peirce, and Popper.
Part of a proposed structuring of ideas.
A list of 14 “elements” for a structure of ideas. Includes Warfield’s handwritten notations.
A list of 13 numbered “elements” and four hand-drawn diagrams, three of which are scratched out as unsatisfactory. The fourth diagram is in the form of a flow-chart with three extra boxes to the side and is labeled “The Axiomatic Structure.”
A numbered list of reference and resource articles which Warfield collected and stored in his Economics Research Note-Binders. See also, “Topics List.”
A key-word or finding aid list, which corresponds to items in “Excerpts List.”
A list Warfield made in preparation for indexing an article Warfield had been studying by James E. Alvey.
A problematique Warfield created for an article by Thomas Geoghegan titled “Infinite Debt: How Unlimited Interest Rates Destroyed the Economy,” Harpers Magazine (April 2009).
A two page outline for a PowerPoint presentation lecture which was never given, but was prepared for a 2003 INCOSE conference or program.