Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 47, issue 1, 2025

2024 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: WAS HUME A MERCANTILIST? FOR SMITH, YES: THE FRIENDLY DISAGREEMENT OF ADAM SMITH AND DAVID HUME ON MONEY pp. 1-10

Maria Pia Paganelli

WHERE IS CREDIT IN THE PRICE SPECIE FLOW? pp. 11-29

John Berdell and José M. Menudo

THE EXPORT OF CAPITAL TO COLONIES AND THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: 1776–1917 pp. 30-52

Adam Walke

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXCHANGE RATE ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: 1892–1992 pp. 53-75

Sebastian Edwards

FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS ON RACE AND EUGENICS pp. 76-91

Luca Fiorito and Valentina Erasmo

WHY WAS KEYNES KEEN TO INVEST IN AMERICAN BUT NOT IN BRITISH INVESTMENT TRUSTS? pp. 92-115

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Eleonora Sanfilippo

LETTER TO THE EDITORS: SOME THOUGHTS ON CARL MENGER’S LECTURES TO CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF pp. 116-118

Eve Menger

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023), pp. 290, $35 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780674987081 pp. 119-122

Spencer Banzhaf

Alma Steingart, Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 300, $105 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780226824185 pp. 122-125

Juan Carvajalino

Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, Historical Materialism Book Series (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022), pp. ix + 418, $179 (hardcover). ISBN: 9789004525993 pp. 126-129

Ivan Boldyrev

Catherine Packham, Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 302, £85.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781009395847. doi: 10.1017/9781009395823 pp. 129-131

Paolo Santori

Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023), pp. 248, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780231207300 pp. 132-134

John P. Christie

Elizabeth Anderson, Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 384, $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781009275439 pp. 134-139

Joel Suarez

Volume 46, issue 4, 2024

THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY AT 50: INTRODUCTION pp. 495-497

Pedro Garcia Duarte and Jimena Hurtado

THE HISTORY OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY pp. 498-508

Marianne Johnson

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT’S PLACE IN MACROECONOMICS REVISITED pp. 509-517

David Laidler

THOUGHTS ON MY HES LIFE pp. 518-523

Malcolm Rutherford

NEITHER ECONOMIST NOR HISTORIAN pp. 524-534

E. Roy Weintraub

THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY AT FIFTY: WHAT KIND OF DIVERSITY? pp. 535-543

Philippe Fontaine

REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS pp. 544-551

Margaret Schabas

REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY AT FIFTY: LOSING OUR WAY? pp. 552-558

John Davis

THE HES AT FIFTY: IDENTITY CRISIS AND THE NEED FOR PLURALISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES pp. 559-567

Loïc Charles

SMOKE ON THE WATER: HES AT 50 AND THE NON-NEUTRALITY OF HISTORY pp. 568-575

Harro Maas

ÉMIGRÉ ECONOMISTS IN AMERICA: THEIR IMPACT AND THEIR EXPERIENCES pp. 576-584

Harald Hagemann

RECOLLECTIONS OF MY TIME AT THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY pp. 585-589

Mauro Boianovsky

REMEMBRANCES OF A TREASURER: 1999–2015 pp. 590-593

Neil B. Niman

NETWORKS OF HISTORIANS OF ECONOMICS: FIFTY YEARS OF HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY CONFERENCES pp. 594-617

Andrej Svorenčík

HES CONFERENCES: A LEARNING EXPERIENCE pp. 618-621

José Luís Cardoso

THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES pp. 622-635

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Giulia Zacchia

THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY BULLETIN AND JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (1979–2023) pp. 636-658

José Edwards, Yann Giraud and Ivan Ledezma

IN THE BEGINNING: THE GENESIS AND EARLY YEARS OF THE HES BULLETIN pp. 659-662

Karen Vaughn

“I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS … ”: AN EDITOR’S RETROSPECTIVE pp. 663-668

Steven G. Medema

TIMES OF CHANGE pp. 669-672

Marcel Boumans and Evelyn L Forget

EDITORIAL POLICY AS CONVERSATION AID pp. 673-677

Stephen Meardon

Volume 46, issue 3, 2024

THE RISE, FALL, AND LEGACY OF THE STRUCTURE-CONDUCT-PERFORMANCE PARADIGM pp. 337-357

Matthew T. Panhans

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: A HISTORY OF THE EARLY BRAZILIAN COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES IN PURSUIT OF A MINIMUM WAGE, 1935–1939 pp. 358-379

Victor Cruz-e-Silva

BETWEEN SUMNER AND GALTON: A FURTHER LOOK AT ALBERT GALLOWAY KELLER’S SOCIOLOGY pp. 380-398

Luca Fiorito and Valentina Erasmo

EDGARD MILHAUD AND THE CASE FOR ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL CLEARING UNION IN THE 1930S: A FORGOTTEN FORERUNNER OF KEYNES? pp. 399-420

Adrien Faudot and Nikolay Nenovsky

PROBABILITY, PRUDENCE, DANGER: THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE BUILDING OF THE LEXICON OF RISK pp. 421-442

Pierre Januard

HUME ON THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH COMMERCIAL SPIRIT pp. 443-465

Erik W. Matson

Edith Kuiper, A Herstory of Economics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022), 256 pp., $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781509538430 pp. 466-470

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

Tarik Tazdaït, La science est un jeu: La théorie des jeux dans la France des années 1950 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023), 304 pp., 35.00€ (paperback). ISBN: 9782406143734 pp. 470-474

Robert Leonard

Ricardo Bielschowsky, Mauro Boianovsky, and Maurício Chalfin Coutinho, eds., A History of Brazilian Economic Thought: From Colonial Times Through the Early 21st Century (Abingdon: Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2022), pp. 268, $160 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032029306 pp. 474-477

Marco Cavalieri

Sebastian Edwards, The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), pp. 376, $40 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691208626 pp. 477-481

Daniel Kuehn

Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, eds., Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South, Histories of Internationalism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), pp. 256, $159.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781350268159 pp. 481-484

Maria Bach

José Luís Cardoso, Money, Debt and Politics: The Bank of Lisbon and the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. 120, $160 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032409726 pp. 484-486

Mauricio C. Coutinho

George S. Tavlas, The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 656, $65 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780226823188 pp. 486-489

Hugh Rockoff

Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), pp. 590, $35 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780374601140 pp. 489-493

Alain Marciano

Volume 46, issue 2, 2024

IDENTIFYING A “CHICAGO SCHOOL” OF ECONOMICS: ON THE ORIGINS, DIFFUSION, AND EVOLVING MEANINGS OF A FAMOUS NAME BRAND pp. 169-200

Steven G. Medema

THE LONG AND UNFINISHED ROAD TO FRIEDMAN AND MEISELMAN’S “THE RELATIVE STABILITY OF MONETARY VELOCITY AND THE INVESTMENT MULTIPLIER” pp. 201-224

George Tavlas

INVESTIGATING THE “DEBT–MONEY–PRICES” TRIANGLE: IRVING FISHER’S THEORETICAL JOURNEY TOWARD THE 100% MONEY PROPOSAL pp. 225-243

Samuel Demeulemeester

THE ORIGINS OF YIELD CURVE THEORY: IRVING FISHER AND JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES pp. 244-260

Lucy Brillant

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAWTOOTH WAGES MODEL OF INFLATION pp. 261-287

André Roncaglia De Carvalho

WHEN LIBERTY PRESUPPOSES ORDER: F. A. HAYEK’S CONTEXTUAL ORDOLIBERALISM pp. 288-311

Stefan Kolev

Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 400, CHF 153.50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030702458 pp. 312-314

Thomas A. Stapleford

Rhiannon Stephens, Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022), pp. 312, $27.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781478018827 pp. 315-317

Gerardo Serra

Joshua Grace, African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021), pp. 432, $30.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781478011712 pp. 318-320

Waseem-Ahmed Bin-Kasim

Manuel Gonzalo, India from Latin America: Peripherisation, Statebuilding, and Demand-Led Growth (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), pp. 290, $128 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780367542023 pp. 321-323

Rhiannon Pugh

Mei Junjie, Friedrich List: A Pioneer in Catchup Development (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2022), pp. 433, NT$ 668 (paperback). ISBN: 9787208178618 pp. 324-326

George Hong Jiang

Ivo Maes, with Ilaria Pasotti, Robert Triffin: A Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 262, $89 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780190081096 pp. 327-329

Adrien Faudot

Roberto Baranzini and Daniele Besomi, eds., Metaphors in the History of Economic Thought: Crises, Business Cycles and Equilibrium (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. viii + 290, $136 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780367701062 pp. 330-334

Mauro Boianovsky

THIBAULT LE TEXIER, LA MAIN VISIBLE DES MARCHÉS: UNE HISTOIRE CRITIQUE DU MARKETING (PARIS: ÉDITIONS LA DÉCOUVERTE, 2022), PP. 656, €26 (PAPERBACK). ISBN: 9782707299249 – RETRACTION pp. 335-335

Kevin Mellet

Volume 46, issue 1, 2024

“RISE AND FALL” OF THE WALRASIAN PROGRAM IN ECONOMICS: A SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL DYNAMICS OF THE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY pp. 1-26

Olessia Kirtchik and Ivan Boldyrev

FROM “TIRED MUSCLES” TO “MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS”: A DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF COSTS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY pp. 27-47

Fabio Barbieri and Marcelo Lourenço Filho

THE “SOCIAL VALUE” DEBATE: AN EARLY CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN MARGINALISM pp. 48-68

Luca Fiorito

CORREA MOYLAN WALSH BEYOND INDEX NUMBERS: FROM THE “BATTLE OF THE STANDARDS” TO THE SCIENCE OF MONEY pp. 69-91

Victor Cruz-e-Silva and Felipe Almeida

ROBERT TRIFFIN, JAPAN, AND THE QUEST FOR ASIAN MONETARY UNION pp. 92-116

Ivo Maes and Ilaria Pasotti

BUILDING INTEGRATED MODELS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS: THE CASE OF GORDON’S 1954 FISHERY MODEL pp. 117-139

Baptiste Parent, Lauriane Mouysset, Antoine Missemer and Harold Levrel

ON HERBERT A. SIMON AND JORGE LUIS BORGES ABOUT FREE WILL pp. 140-150

Ricardo Crespo

Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022), pp. 824, $50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780226816821 pp. 151-153

Lachezar Grudev

Marco P. Vianna Franco and Antoine Missemer, A History of Ecological Economic Thought (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2022), pp. 200, 120£ (hardcover). ISBN: 9780367363925 pp. 153-155

C. Tyler DesRoches

Juan Odisio and Marcelo Rougier, eds., El desafío del desarrollo: Trayectorias de los grandes economistas latinoamericanos del siglo XX (Santander: Editorial Universidad de Cantabria, 2022), pp. 404, 21€ (paperback). ISBN: 9788417888985 pp. 155-159

Alexandre Cunha

Andreas Ortmann and Benoît Walraevens, Adam Smith’s System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired by Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric, Game Theory, and Conjectural History (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. xv + 254, $109 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030997038 pp. 159-162

Tony Aspromourgos

Raphaël Fèvre, A Political Economy of Power: Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932–1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 280, $64 (hardcover). ISBN:9780197607800 pp. 162-165

Hansjörg Klausinger

Arie Arnon, Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession: Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses (Cham: Springer Nature, 2022), pp. xxvi + 318, $109.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030977023 pp. 165-167

Perry Mehrling