Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 45, issue 4, 2023

“HOW CAN I LIBERATE THE SLAVES?” THE NEGLECTED TRADITION OF DEVELOPMENTAL ABOLITIONISM pp. 539-558

Abel B. S. Gaiya

IRVING FISHER, RAGNAR FRISCH, AND THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR MEASURABLE UTILITY pp. 559-575

Robert Dimand

THE ECONOMISTS AND THE PRESS IN ITALY FROM THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNTIL FASCISM: THE CASE OF LUIGI EINAUDI pp. 576-602

Giovanni Pavanelli

BEFORE BRAIN DRAIN: ITALIAN ECONOMISTS ON THE CALCULUS OF THE VALUE OF MEN pp. 603-624

Claudia Sunna and Traci M. Ricciardo

HOW INDUSTRIALIZATION BECAME THE CORE OF RAÚL PREBISCH’S THOUGHT pp. 625-646

Adriana Calcagno

DUAL ARGUMENT, DOUBLE TRUTH: ON THE CONTINUED IMPORTANCE OF THE STATE IN NEOLIBERAL THOUGHT pp. 647-667

Ola Innset

JHET INTERVIEWS: EVELYN FORGET pp. 668-676

Virginie Gouverneur

Emily Erikson, Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), pp. 312, $35 (paperback). ISBN: 9780231184359 pp. 677-679

Henri-Pierre Mottironi

Ann Mari May, Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), pp. 256, $32 (paperback). ISBN: 9780231192910 pp. 679-686

Miriam Bankovsky

Robin Paul Malloy, Law and the Invisible Hand: A Theory of Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. xxiv + 179, $24.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9781108836632 pp. 686-689

Steven G. Medema

Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2022), pp. 464, $39.98. ISBN: 9781324091615 pp. 690-692

Sunilkumar Karintha

Antonio Magliulo, A History of European Economic Thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 206, $128 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032037677 pp. 692-695

Manuela Mosca

Ivan Colangelo Salomão, ed., Os homens do cofre: o que pensavam os ministros da Fazenda do Brasil Republicano (1889–1985) (São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2021), pp. 517, R$94. ISBN: 9786557110454 pp. 695-696

Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi

Benjamin M. Friedman, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (New York: Vintage, 2022), pp. 560, $20 (paperback). ISBN: 9780593311097 pp. 696-698

Keith Tribe

Volume 45, issue 3, 2023

2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE pp. 367-383

Marcel Boumans

KEYNES, RAMSEY, AND PRAGMATISM pp. 384-398

Bill Gerrard

KEYNES, RAMSEY, AND PRAGMATISM: A COMMENT pp. 399-402

Bradley W. Bateman

GOOD, ECONOMIC WELFARE, AND THE NATIONAL DIVIDEND—PIGOU’S WELFARE TRIAD pp. 403-426

John Aldrich

THE UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION OF MANDEVILLE’S IDEAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, OR THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING OUTRAGE pp. 427-446

Joost Hengstmengel and Rudi Verburg

THE DEMYSTIFICATION OF DAVID RICARDO’S FAMOUS FOUR NUMBERS pp. 447-466

Jorge Morales Meoqui

RARENESS IN THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF WALRAS’S THEORY OF VALUE pp. 467-485

Pablo Cervera-Ferri and Pau Insa-Sánchez

A. G. PAPANDREOU’S ACADEMIC ECONOMIC THOUGHT 1943–1963 pp. 486-502

Michel S. Zouboulakis

LETTER TO THE EDITORS: SOLVING VINCENT CARRET’S PUZZLE: A REBUTTAL OF CARRET’S FALLACIES AND ERRORS pp. 503-510

Jean-Marc Ginoux and Franck Jovanovic

LETTER TO THE EDITORS: THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES: A REPLY TO GINOUX AND JOVANOVIC pp. 511-519

Vincent Carret

Elizabeth Popp Berman, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. x, 329, $35 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691167381. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1vtz8n7 pp. 520-523

Philippe Fontaine

Tad Skotnicki, The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021), pp. 280, $90 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781503614635 pp. 523-527

Miriam Bankovsky

Charles Camic, Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020), pp. 504, $41 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780674659728 pp. 527-532

James R. Wible

RETRACTED ‐ Thibault Le Texier, La main visible des marchés: Une histoire critique du marketing (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2022), pp. 656, €26 (paperback). ISBN: 9782707299249 pp. 532-535

Kevin Mellet

Peter Galbács, The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach (Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2020), pp. xix + 377, $75 (paperback). ISBN: 9780128165652 pp. 535-537

Marcel Boumans

Volume 45, issue 2, 2023

INTRODUCTION TO SYMPOSIUM: SMITH AT 300 pp. 179-181

Pedro Duarte and Jimena Hurtado Prieto

SMITH AT 300: A VIOLENT FIT OF LAZINESS pp. 182-183

Sarah Skwire

SMITH AT 300: THE LURE OF POETRY AND PROFIT pp. 184-186

Erwin Dekker

SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON RHETORIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE pp. 187-189

Sheila Dow

SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW pp. 190-192

Craig Smith

SMITH AT 300: THE DIGNITY OF TRADE pp. 193-194

Maria Pia Paganelli

SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH ON EQUITY, SOCIETY, AND STABILITY pp. 195-197

Aida Ramos

SMITH AT 300: ADAM SMITH AND THE IDEA OF “POLICE” pp. 198-200

Alexandre Cunha

SMITH AT 300: NEGATIVE JUSTICE AND POLITICAL WISDOM pp. 201-203

Maria Carrasco

SMITH AT 300: THE NATURAL RECOMPENSE OF LABOR pp. 204-205

David Andrews

SMITH AT 300: ON REGULATION OF THE LABOUR CONTRACT pp. 206-207

Tony Aspromourgos

SMITH AT 300: USELESS COMPANIES pp. 208-210

Emma Rothschild

SMITH AT 300: HOW SELFISH SOEVER MAN MAY BE SUPPOSED pp. 211-213

Karen Horn

SMITH AT 300: READING AND REREADING “THE CORRUPTION OF MORAL SENTIMENTS” pp. 214-216

Glory M. Liu

SMITH AT 300: EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY: LESSONS FOR OUR TIME pp. 217-219

Philippe Fontaine

SMITH AT 300: UNIVERSAL HUMAN NATURE, THE DIVISION OF LABOR, AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT pp. 220-222

Jérôme Lange

SMITH AT 300: COMMERCIAL SOCIETY AND THE WOMEN’S QUESTION pp. 223-225

Pavel Kuchař

SMITH AT 300: MEN OF BLESSED AND BEGUILING INGENUITY pp. 226-228

Scott Drylie

ADAM SMITH ON PUBLIC PROVISION OF EDUCATION pp. 229-248

James R. Otteson

DOES FRIENDSHIP STEM FROM ALTRUISM? ADAM SMITH AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LOVE-BASED AND INTEREST-BASED PREFERENCES pp. 249-277

Elias L. Khalil

ADAM SMITH AND THE WEALTH-WORSHIPPING SPECTATOR pp. 278-297

Yiftah Elazar

THE EDIFYING DISCOURSES OF ADAM SMITH: FOCALISM, COMMERCE, AND SERVING THE COMMON GOOD pp. 298-320

Erik W. Matson

WHAT’S NOT TO SEE? FOUCAULT ON INVISIBLE POLITICAL ECONOMY IN ADAM SMITH AND ADAM FERGUSON pp. 321-342

Eugene Heath

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A COMMENT ON MARIA PIA PAGANELLI’S MISTAKEN TREATMENT OF ADAM SMITH’S “FOUR STAGES” THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT pp. 343-350

James C. W. Ahiakpor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: WAS SMITH A STAGE THEORIST? A RESPONSE TO AHIAKPOR pp. 351-352

Maria Pia Paganelli

Paul Sagar, Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022), pp. 248, $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691210834 pp. 353-355

R. J. W. Mills

Roger E. Backhouse, Antoinette Baujard, and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. ix + 338, £75 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108841450 pp. 356-360

Herrade Igersheim

Claudia Goldin, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021), pp. xiv + 325, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691201788 pp. 361-363

Benjamin Schneider

Keith Tribe, Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850–1950, Oxford Studies in the History of Economics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 440, $99 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780190491741 pp. 363-365

Emily Erikson

Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea (New York: Basic Books, 2022), pp. 336, $32 (hardcover); $18.99 (ebook). ISBN: 9780465049707 (hardcover) pp. 365-366

Carl Wennerlind

Volume 45, issue 1, 2023

THE BIRTH OF HOMO ŒCONOMICUS: THE METHODOLOGICAL DEBATE ON THE ECONOMIC AGENT FROM J. S. MILL TO V. PARETO pp. 1-26

Michele Bee and Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay

TOWARDS A “TEXT AS DATA” APPROACH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS: AN APPLICATION TO ADAM SMITH’S CLASSICS pp. 27-49

Matthieu Ballandonne and Igor Cersosimo

ECONOMIC THEORY, REFORMISM, AND THE EMERGENCE OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS: MODELS OF IDENTIFICATION AND DISSOCIATION IN THE EUROPEAN CORPORATIONS OF TRADES DURING THE “LONG” EIGHTEENTH CENTURY pp. 50-72

Francisco Jorge Rodríguez Gonzálvez

CASSEL, OHLIN, ÅKERMAN, AND THE WALL STREET CRASH OF 1929 pp. 73-93

Benny Carlson

BETWEEN FAIRNESS AND EFFICIENCY: TESTING WILSON’S THEORY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION pp. 94-116

Sophie Agulhon and Thomas Mueller

NUDGING TO PROHIBITION? A REASSESSMENT OF IRVING FISHER’S ECONOMICS OF PROHIBITION IN LIGHT OF MODERN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS pp. 117-136

Nicholas A. Curott and Nicholas A. Snow

COBWEB THEORY, MARKET STABILITY, AND PRICE EXPECTATIONS pp. 137-161

Geoffrey Poitras

Jeff E. Biddle, Progression through Regression: The Life Story of the Empirical Cobb-Douglas Production Function (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 334, $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108492263 pp. 162-165

Chung-Tang Cheng

Jan Toporowski, Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020), pp. 192, $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781788972147 pp. 165-169

Brecht Rogissart

Sergio Cremaschi, David Ricardo: An Intellectual Biography (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. xiv + 192, $160 (hardcover). ISBN: 978036775345 pp. 169-172

Spencer J. Pack

Roberto Marchionatti, Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century, An Intellectual History. Volume II, 1919–1945: Economic Theory in an Age of Crisis and Uncertainty (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. xiii + 428, $149.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030809867 pp. 172-174

Giandomenica Becchio

John L. Campbell and John A. Hall, What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 299, $28.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108487825 pp. 174-177

Ola Innset