Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2011

THE USDA GRADUATE SCHOOL: GOVERNMENT TRAINING IN STATISTICS AND ECONOMICS, 1921–1945 pp. 419-447

Malcolm Rutherford

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: FR. JOHN A. RYAN AND THE MINIMUM WAGE MOVEMENT pp. 449-466

J. Daniel Hammond

ETHICS AND THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: ROBBINS'S ENDURING FALLACY pp. 467-486

Amos Witztum

THE CONCEPT OF AN AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS, FROM PETTY TO SMITH pp. 487-505

Anthony Brewer

JOHN STUART MILL AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN pp. 507-526

Estrella Trincado and José-Luis Ramos

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS AND THE “RUSSIAN CASE”: THE IMPACT OF RUSSIA’S REALITIES AND THINKERS IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEBATE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT pp. 527-550

Ezequiel Adamovsky

Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xi, 244, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19786-1 pp. 551-553

Robert Sugden

José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains, eds. Paying for the Liberal State. The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xii, 310, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-5215-1852-9 pp. 553-555

Agnar Sandmo

SCIENTIFIC RIGOR AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE: THE TWO DIMENSIONS OF OSKAR R. LANGE’S EARLY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (1931–1945) pp. 557-559

Roberto Lampa

THE CARDINALIST MANIFESTO: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE MEASURABILITY OF UTILITY pp. 559-561

Jonathan Andreas

ECONOMICS AND DIVERSITY pp. 562-564

D’ippoliti, Carlo

Volume 33, issue 3, 2011

THE MONETARY ECONOMICS OF BENJAMIN GRAHAM: A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOODS AND MONEY? pp. 285-305

Perry Mehrling

RECIPROCITY AND HENRY C. CAREY’S TRAVERSES ON “THE ROAD TO PERFECT FREEDOM OF TRADE” pp. 307-333

Stephen Meardon

CAPABILITIES FOR THE MISERABLE; HAPPINESS FOR THE SATISFIED pp. 335-355

José M. Edwards and Sophie Pellé

CARL MENGER AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE AUSTRIAN TRADITION ON THE NATURE OF CAPITAL AND ITS STRUCTURE pp. 357-384

Anthony M. Endres and David A. Harper

THE HIDDEN ADAM SMITH IN HIS ALLEGED THEOLOGY pp. 385-402

Gavin Kennedy

Jeffrey T. Young, ed., Elgar Companion to Adam Smith (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. xxv, 374, $215. ISBN 978-1-84542-019-2 pp. 403-405

Jason Delaney

Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. xvi, 285, $105. ISBN 978-1-4039-4789-5 pp. 405-408

Glenn Hueckel

Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), pp. 296, $31.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25836-5 pp. 408-409

Tiago Mata

Joseph Schumpeter, The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory, edited by Bruce A. McDaniel (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010), pp. xxvi; 464, $69.95. ISBN 9781412811507 pp. 409-411

Matthew McCaffrey

Frederic Lee, A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2009), pp. x, 354, $130. ISBN 978-0-415-77714-8 (hardback) pp. 411-413

O’Hara, Phillip Anthony

Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine, eds., The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. x, 256, $26.00. ISBN 978-0-521-71776-2 pp. 413-417

Dorothy Ross

Volume 33, issue 2, 2011

EARLY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEBATES REVISITED pp. 145-171

Michele Alacevich

WICKSELL ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS OF 1907 pp. 173-185

Mauro Boianovsky

AFTERSHOCKS FROM A REVOLUTION: ORDINAL UTILITY AND COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES pp. 187-222

Thomas A. Stapleford

AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LAW IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GAETANO FILANGIERI AND LA SCIENZA DELLA LEGISLAZIONE pp. 223-248

Fabrizio Simon

ADAM SMITH’S ESSENTIALS: ON TRUST, FAITH, AND FREE MARKETS pp. 249-267

Jerry Evensky

Steven G. Medema, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 272, $35.ISBN 978-1-4008-3077-0 pp. 269-271

Spencer Banzhaf

Thomas A. Stapleford, The Cost of Living in America. A Political History of Economic Statistics 1880–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 421, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-521-71924-7 pp. 271-274

Emmanuel Didier

George Warde Norman, Taxation and the Promotion of Human Happiness: An Essay by George Warde Norman, ed. D. P. O’Brien, with assistance from John Creedy (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2009), pp. xilll, 209, £59.95. ISBN 978-1-84844-485-0 pp. 274-277

Takuo Dome

Ross B. Emmett, Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xxxi, 218, $130 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0415775007 pp. 277-280

Andrew Farrant

Lanny Ebenstein, Milton Friedman: A Biography (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xi, 286, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN 1-4039-7627-9 pp. 280-283

Arthur Diamond

Volume 33, issue 1, 2011

HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE COASE THEOREM LESSONS FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT pp. 1-18

Steven Medema

KARL KNIES AND THE PREHISTORY OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF “DIE NATIONALOEKONOMISCHE LEHRE VOM WERTH” (1855) pp. 19-35

Kosmas Papadopoulos and Bradley W. Bateman

THE THEORY OF VALUE IN THE NATIONAL ECONOMY pp. 37-66

Karl Knies

CRISES AS A DISEASE OF THE BODY POLITICK. A METAPHOR IN THE HISTORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY ECONOMICS pp. 67-118

Daniele Besomi

REVIEW ESSAY: POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY AFTER SMITH pp. 119-129

Donald Winch

Poovey Mary, Genres of the Credit Economy. Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2008), pp. 511. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-67532-9 pp. 131-133

Marina Bianchi

Mirowski Philip and Plehwe Dieter, eds., The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. vi, 469, $55.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4 pp. 134-137

Ross Emmett

Simon J. Cook, The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science. A Rounded Globe of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xviii, 331, £52.25. ISBN 978-0-76008-9 pp. 137-139

Peter Groenewegen

Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes, The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2009), pp. x, 293, illus., bibl., index, $23.95 (paper). ISBN 9780822345381 pp. 139-142

Eleonora Sanfilippo

Schabas Margaret, The Natural Origins of Economies (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. xi, 231, $40.00. ISBN 0–226–73569–9 pp. 142-144

Jeffrey T. Young

Volume 32, issue 4, 2010

EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FED pp. 445-470

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

MACHLUP ON THE TRANSFER PROBLEM pp. 471-493

Kepa Ormazabal

SOUTH SIDE BLUES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO SCHOOL pp. 495-530

Craig Freedman

HOW INFLUENTIAL WAS MECHANICS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS? A SMALL EXAMPLE OF A LARGE QUESTION pp. 531-581

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

CLOSING THE MODEL? THE HARROD–MARSCHAK CORRESPONDENCE ON THE DRAFT OF THE “ESSAY IN DYNAMIC THEORY” pp. 583-608

Florencia Sember

THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF ECONOMICS: LIFE-WORLD, FORMALISM, AND THE INVISIBLE HAND pp. 609-611

Till Düppe

JOYFUL ECONOMISTS: REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY FROM THE HAPPINESS STUDIES PERSPECTIVE pp. 611-613

José M. Edwards

AMERICAN ECONOMICS AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY: THORSTEIN B. VEBLEN, ALFRED MARSHALL, AND THE METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INSTITUTIONALISM pp. 613-615

Tiziana Foresti

A THEISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE AUSTRIAN THEORIES OF CAPITAL AND INTEREST pp. 615-617

Troy Lynch

REGULATIONS AND COMPETITION IN THE FRENCH RAILROAD INDUSTRY 1823–1914 pp. 617-619

Guy Numa

PROPERTY, POSSESSION, AND PRESCRIPTION: THE RULE OF LAW IN THE HESSIAN AND RHINE-MAIN REGION OF GERMANY, 1648–1776 pp. 620-620

Colin F. Wilder

INTELLECTUAL PATHS AND PATHOLOGIES: HOW SMALL EVENTS IN SCHOLARLY LIFE ACCIDENTALLY GROW BIG pp. 621-622

Altuğ Yalçıntaş

Volume 32, issue 3, 2010

THIRSTING FOR THE FRAY: THE CAMBRIDGE DUNNING OF MR. MACLEOD pp. 305-328

Michael White

FRIEDMAN’S NOBEL LECTURE AND THE PHILLIPS CURVE MYTH pp. 329-348

James Forder

BEFORE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS: WESTERN POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE “RUSSIAN CASE,” AND THE FIRST PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS (FROM THE 1760S UNTIL THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY) pp. 349-376

Ezequiel Adamovsky

HOW “CHICAGOAN” ARE GARY BECKER’S ECONOMIC MODELS OF MARRIAGE? pp. 377-395

Shoshana Grossbard

SPECULATION IN COMMODITIES: KEYNES’ “PRACTICAL ACQUAINTANCE” WITH FUTURES MARKETS pp. 397-418

Luca Fantacci, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Eleonora Sanfilippo

HENRY GEORGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN’S THEORY OF CAPITAL pp. 419-431

Neil B. Niman

Donald Winch, Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual History of Political Economy in Britain, 1848–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; Ideas in Context Series, No. 95), pp. xii, 427, $95.00. ISBN: 978-0-521-88753-3 (pb $34.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-71539-3) pp. 433-435

Tony Aspromourgos

Tony Aspromourgos, The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the framing of political economy (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 396, $150. ISBN 0-203-88957 pp. 435-436

Maria Pia Paganelli

Richard Tuck, Free Riding (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. viii, 223. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-6744-02834-0 pp. 437-438

Roger Backhouse

Donald Frey, America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), pp. 239, $75. ISBN 978-0-7914-9351-9 pp. 439-440

John E. Stapleford

Margaret Schabas, The Natural Origins of Economies (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. xi, 231, $40.00, ISBN 0-226-73569-9 pp. 441-442

Jeffrey T. Young

LUCAS, KEYNES, AND THE CRISIS - ERRATUM pp. 443-443

David Laidler

Volume 32, issue 2, 2010

THE HOMELESS OBSERVER: JOHN HARSANYI ON INTERPERSONAL UTILITY COMPARISONS AND BARGAINING, 1950–1964 pp. 145-173

Philippe Fontaine

THE CHANGING PLACE OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN ECONOMICS: PAUL SAMUELSON BETWEEN PRINCIPLE AND STRATEGY, 1941–1955 pp. 175-197

Yann Giraud

HISTORICISM AND NEOCLASSICISM IN THE KIEV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: THE CASE OF ALEKSANDER BILIMOVICH pp. 199-219

Andrej Sušjan

UNCERTAINTY, PROFIT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION: FRANK KNIGHT’S CONTRIBUTION RECONSIDERED pp. 221-235

Geoffrey T. F. Brooke

ADAM SMITH’S SYSTEM OF NATURAL LIBERTY: COMPETITION, CONTESTABILITY, AND MARKET PROCESS pp. 237-262

Michael E. Bradley

THE KEYNES-HARROD CONTROVERSY ON THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF THE RATE OF INTEREST AND THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF MARKETS pp. 263-284

Jérôme de BOYER des ROCHES

Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, eds., The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations in Analytical Egalitarianism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. viii, 437. $70. ISBN 978-0-472-11644-7 pp. 285-287

Roger Backhouse

Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers, second edition (New York and London, M. E. Sharpe, 2009), pp. 512. Cloth $94.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-2226-6. Paper $42.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-2227-3 pp. 287-289

Craufurd Goodwin

Bradley Bateman and H. Spencer Banzhaf, Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy. History of Political Economy Annual Supplement (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), pp. 370. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8223-6702-4 pp. 290-292

Paul Oslington

N. Emrah Aydinonat, The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences (London and New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. xvi, 254. Cloth: $140, ISBN 978-0-415-41783-9. Paper: $39.95, ISBN 978-0-415-56954-5 pp. 292-295

Warren Samuels

Calvin Hayes, Popper, Hayek and the Open Society (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009), pp. xx, 284. $150. ISBN 978-0-415-77289-1 pp. 295-297

Jeremy Shearmur

Donald R. Stabile, The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008), pp. 176, $100. ISBN: 978-1-84844-197-2 pp. 297-299

Bruce Kaufman

Stanley Buder, Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), pp. x, 560. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3231-8 pp. 299-301

Mansel G. Blackford

Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg, eds., Christian Theology and Market Economics (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2008), pp. 240. Cloth: $110, ISBN 978-1-84720-377-9. Paper: $35, ISBN 978-1-84980-182-9 pp. 301-303

Kathryn D. Blanchard

Volume 32, issue 1, 2010

CAPITAL CONTROVERSY FROM BÖHM-BAWERK TO BLISS: BADLY POSED OR VERY DEEP QUESTIONS? OR WHAT “WE” CAN LEARN FROM CAPITAL CONTROVERSY EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE WHO WON pp. 1-21

Avi Cohen

THE OLD GENERATION OF ECONOMISTS AND THE NEW: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORIAN’S APPROACH TO A SIGNIFICANT TRANSITION pp. 23-37

Donald Winch

LUCAS, KEYNES, AND THE CRISIS pp. 39-62

David Laidler

ON THE THINNESS OF THE UTILITARIAN DEFENSE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY pp. 63-83

Joseph Persky

THE PERIODICITY OF CRISES. A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE BEFORE 1850 pp. 85-132

Daniele Besomi

Gilles Dostaler, Keynes and His Battles (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007), pp. 384, $160. ISBN 978-1-85898-266-3 pp. 133-135

Sean Langcake and Robert Leeson

Goeff Cockfield, Ann Firth, and John Laurent, eds., New Perspective on Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2007) pp. vii, 170, $100. ISBN 1845424808 pp. 135-136

Maria Pia Paganelli

Franciso Louçã, The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xxiv, 370, $180. ISBN 978-0-415-41974-1 pp. 137-139

Kevin Hoover

Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert, eds., Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), pp. xviii, 198, $100 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6149-8 pp. 139-142

Anna Klimina

Yuichi Shionoya and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic Sociology of Capitalist Development (Cheltenham, UK, and Northhampton, MA, 2008), pp. ix, 285, $140. ISBN: 978-1-84720-813-2 pp. 142-144

Anne Mayhew