Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2026

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Volume 48, issue 1, 2026

2025 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: FRANK H. KNIGHT’S LAST LECTURE - PIVOTAL IDEAS IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS pp. 1-18

Ross Emmett

FAMILY PLANNING AND POVERTY: BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, SEX EDUCATION, AND POVERTY IN MARSHALL, PARETO, AND WICKSELL pp. 19-42

Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Marianne Johnson

ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: ANDERS CHYDENIUS ON THE GOALS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN IN THE 1760S pp. 43-63

Anita Välikangas

RULES WITHIN OR WITHOUT? ADAM SMITH ON THE ROLE OF DEONTIC EMOTIONS IN DIACHRONIC CONTROL pp. 64-84

Laurie Bréban and Laurent Jaffro

A HISTORY OF THE HAYEKIAN TRIANGLE pp. 85-104

Renaud Fillieule

Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (London: Verso, 2023), pp. 272, $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781788730068 pp. 105-108

Roger E. Backhouse

Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023), pp. 328, $55.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9781032103990 pp. 108-110

Minghui Hu

Roberto Marchionatti, Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century: An Intellectual History. Volume III: 1946–Mid-1970s. Economic Theory in the New Golden Age of Capitalism (Cham: Springer, 2024), pp. 424, $129.99 (hardcover). ISBN 9783031502217 pp. 110-112

Giandomenica Becchio

Bruce Caldwell, John Davis, Uskali Mäki, and Esther-Mirjam Sent, eds., Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections with and without Rules (Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. 260, $190 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032209463 pp. 112-115

Soroush Marouzi

Volume 47, issue 4, 2025

ECONOMIC HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY: DOUGLASS NORTH’S DISILLUSIONMENT WITH SIMPLISTIC, MARKET-ORIENTED POLICIES, 1950S–1990S pp. 433-453

Cyril Jung

TOMOKO MATSUDAIRA ON WISE CONSUMPTION: BASED ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS pp. 454-474

Yuanting Zhang

SYMPATHY, SOCIAL HARMONY, AND THE RHYTHM OF SENTIMENTS: AN ESTHETIC INTERPRETATION OF ADAM SMITH’S MORAL THEORY pp. 475-493

Julia Fleider Marchevsky

NON NOVA, NOVITER? HEINRICH DIETZEL AND THE LAST SIGH OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY pp. 494-513

Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida and Rafael Galvão De Almeida

POST-KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS AS DEFENSE MECHANISM: SIDNEY WEINTRAUB AS KNOWN BY E. ROY WEINTRAUB pp. 514-542

Till Düppe

LETTER TO THE EDITORS: FOR A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF DAVID HUME’S MONETARY ANALYSIS THAT PROMPTED ADAM SMITH’S CRITICISMS OF HIM pp. 543-547

James C.W. Ahiakpor

LETTER TO THE EDITORS: LASTING FRIENDSHIPS AND DISAGREEMENTS pp. 548-548

Maria Pia Paganelli

Liliana Doganova, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology (New York: Zone Books, 2024), pp. 336, $28. ISBN: 9781942130918 pp. 549-552

Thomas Michael Mueller

Anne Isla, Economics as Rhetoric: The Thought of Bernard Maris (London: Routledge, 2024), pp. 292, $152 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032738819 pp. 552-555

Natália Bracarense

Manfredi Alberti, Il lavoro in Italia. Un profilo storico dall’Unità a oggi (Rome: Carocci Editore, 2024), pp. 256, €21,00 (paperback). ISBN: 9788829027224 pp. 555-557

Valentina Erasmo

Ėric Toussaint, The World Bank: A Critical History (London/Las Vegas: Pluto Press, 2023), pp. 432 + 390, £45 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780745348285.‡ pp. 557-560

Martin Daunton

ĖRIC TOUSSAINT, THE WORLD BANK: A CRITICAL HISTORY (LONDON/LAS VEGAS: PLUTO PRESS, 2023), PP. 432, £ 45.00 (HARDCOVER). ISBN: 9780745348285 – CORRIGENDUM pp. 561-561

Martin Daunton

Volume 47, issue 3, 2025

THE SOCIALISTS’ HYPOTHESES AND THE ROAD TO SERFDOM pp. 291-316

Gabriel F. Benzecry, Nicholas Jensen and Daniel J. Smith

HAYEK ON ARISTOTLE: THE DEBRIS OF A GENEALOGY OF MODERNITY, VIA POPPER, POLANYI, AND RÖPKE pp. 317-338

Morris Karp

MORE ON THE ORIGIN OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS: EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS TO JOINT LIFE ANNUITY VALUATION pp. 339-362

Geoffrey Poitras

RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFIT: FRED M. TAYLOR AND FRANK H. KNIGHT pp. 363-376

Luca Fiorito and Charles R. McCann

ADAM SMITH ON THE “WRETCHED SPIRIT OF MONOPOLY” IN THE EAST INDIES TRADE pp. 377-393

Mark Donoghue

TEACHING GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: AN ANALYSIS OF TREATISES pp. 394-416

Lúcia Regina Centurião

Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore, eds., The Politics of Modelling: Numbers between Science and Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 272, £83 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780198872412 pp. 417-419

Marion Ronca

Erik Nordman, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action (Washington: Island Press, 2021), 256 pp., $35 (paperback). ISBN: 9781642831559 pp. 419-423

Marianne Johnson

Shingo Takahashi, Transaction Economics of John R. Commons: Towards Reasonable Capitalism (Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2025), 186 pp., £135 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032701387 pp. 423-427

Charles J. Whalen

Roger E. Backhouse, The Penguin History of Economics (Dublin: Penguin Random House, 2023), pp. 471, £13 (paperback). ISBN: 9781802063011 pp. 427-430

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

Jeffrey T. Young, Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution: Economics as a Moral Science Once Again (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 214, $190 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032373010 pp. 430-431

Maria Pia Paganelli

Volume 47, issue 2, 2025

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDIAN INDENTURED LABOR IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY pp. 141-163

Neha Hui and Uma Kambhampati

HAZEL KYRK AND THE RISE OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN INTERWAR AMERICA pp. 164-186

Manfredi Alberti and Pier Francesco Asso

CARL SNYDER, THE REAL BILLS DOCTRINE, AND THE NEW YORK FED IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION pp. 187-212

Robert L. Hetzel, Thomas M. Humphrey and George Tavlas

BEFORE NBER: WARREN NUTTER’S SOVIET RESEARCH AT THE CIA pp. 213-237

Daniel Kuehn

THE VACUITY OF LUDWIG VON MISES’S APRIORISM pp. 238-253

Scott Scheall

JHET INTERVIEWS: PHILIP MIROWSKI pp. 254-276

D. Wade Hands

JHET INTERVIEWS: PHILIP MIROWSKI – ERRATUM pp. 277-277

D. Wade Hands

Alisa Zhulina, Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2024), pp. 296, $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780810146358 pp. 278-280

Andreas Tranvik

Christopher Burke and Ádám Tamás Tuboly, Otto Neurath in Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. ix + 328, $120 (hardcover). ISBN 9781009376297 pp. 281-283

Gábor István Bíró

David R. Bellhouse, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics (Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 2023), pp. 356, $65 (hardcover). ISBN: 1487545037 pp. 283-284

Aashish Velkar

Gary Jaworski, Erving Goffman and the Cold War (London: Lexington Books, 2023), pp. 262, $105 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781666936803 pp. 285-286

Stefan Bargheer

Begoña Pérez Calle, Flora Tristán, Pensamiento económico y comunicación social en tiempos del Romanticismo (Flora Tristán, Economic thought and social communication in the times of Romanticism) (Madrid: Dykinson S.L, 2023), pp. 180. Open Library. ISBN ebook: 978-84-1170-921-7 pp. 286-289

Elena Gallego Abaroa

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