Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2004

Human Nature and Economic Institutions: Instinct Psychology, Behaviorism, and the Development of American Institutionalism pp. 445-477

Pier Asso and Luca Fiorito

“To Be” or “Ought To Be”: The Questions of Empirical Content and Normative Bias in Léon Walras's Methodology pp. 479-492

Alexandre Debs

Marshall: Just how Interested in Doing Good was he? pp. 493-518

Rhead S. Bowman

Alfred Marshall's Idea of Progress and Sustainable Development pp. 519-536

Katia Caldari

Wilhelm Launhardt and Bid-Rent Curves: A Note pp. 537-542

Yeung-Nan Shieh

Mill as Romantic Idealist pp. 543-555

Donald Winch

Volume 26, issue 3, 2004

“Between Worlds,” or an Imagined Reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about Equilibrium and Mathematics in the 1920s pp. 285-310

Robert Leonard

Sympathy for the Devil: H. D. Macleod and W.S. Jevons's Theory of Political Economy pp. 311-329

Michael White

Scope and Method of Schumpeter's Universal Social Science: Economic Sociology, Instrumentalism, and Rhetoric pp. 331-347

Yuichi Shionoya

Did Hayek Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy? pp. 349-361

Erik Angner

The Historical Development of Hierarchical Behavior in Economic Thought pp. 363-378

Stavros Drakopoulos and Anastassios Karayiannis

The Discovery of Comparative Advantage pp. 379-399

John Aldrich

The Macroeconomic thought of Sir William Petty pp. 401-413

James H. Ullmer

Jürgen Backhaus, ed., Joseph Alois Schumpeter: Entrepreneurship, Style and Vision (Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer, 2003), pp. 356, $113. ISBN 1-4020-7463-8 pp. 415-418

Yuichi Shionoya

Robert Leeson, Ideology and the International Economy: The Decline and Fall of Bretton Woods (New York and London: Palgrave, 2003) pp. vii, 242, $75. ISBN 1-4039-0370-0 pp. 418-420

Roger Middleton

Randall E. Parker, Reflections on the Great Depression (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing) pp. xii, 230, $85.00, ISBN 184064-745-0. Paperback: $30.00 ISBN 1-84376-335-4 pp. 420-423

Robert Dimand

Tiziano Raffaelli, Marshall's Evolutionary Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2003) pp. xiii, 178, $90.00. ISBN 0-415-25989-4 pp. 423-426

John K. Whitaker

Thomas J. Sargent and François R. Velde's The Big Problem of Small Change (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002), pp. xxii + 405, $55. IBSN 0-691-02932-6 pp. 426-428

Kevin Hoover

Lawrence H. White, ed., The History of Gold and Silver (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2000) 3 vols; Volume 1, pp. xxxiii + 249; volume 2, pp. 1–267; volume 3, pp. 1–231, $480. ISBN 1-851-196517-3 pp. 428-430

Kevin Hoover

Volume 26, issue 2, 2004

Lost Causes pp. 149-164

Kevin Hoover

The Culture of Quantification and the History of Public Reason pp. 165-177

Theodore M. Porter

New Light on Harry Dexter White pp. 179-195

James M. Boughton

Corporatism and the Theory of the Firm: Lessons from the Portuguese Experience pp. 197-219

Carlos Bastien and José Cardoso

“Old” Economic History in the United States: 1939–1954 pp. 221-239

Cristel de Rouvray

Constructing Identity: The Post Keynesians and the Capital Controversies pp. 241-259

Tiago Mata

A Suggestion for Clarifying the Study of Dissent in Economics pp. 261-271

Roger Backhouse

Volume 26, issue 1, 2004

E. E. Slutsky: Mathematical Statistician, Economist, and Political Economist? pp. 5-18

Vincent Barnett

The “Technology of Happiness” and the Tradition of Economic Science pp. 19-44

Luigino Bruni

British Economists and Philosophers on Marx's Value Theory, 1920–1925 pp. 45-68

Ian Steedman

Jeremiah Jenks: A Pioneer of Industrial Organization? pp. 69-89

John Howard Brown

James Buchanan's Economic Theory of Morals: The Case of the Work Ethic pp. 91-105

James F. Smith

A Note on Francesco Ferrara's Cost of Reproduction pp. 107-114

Enrico Minelli, Marco Guidi and Antonio Guccione

Making Betty Crocker Assume the Position pp. 115-122

Thomas Leonard

Pier Francesco Asso, ed., From Economists to Economists: The International Spread of Italian Economic Thought, 1750–1850 (Firenze, Italy: Edizioni Polistampa), pp. 7–367, $19.00 ISBN 88-8304-352-9 pp. 123-127

A. W. Bob Coats

Χρστος Μπαλγλον, Πληθώνεια Οικονομικ Μελετματα (Christos Baloglou, Plethonian Economic Studies), (Athens: Eleftheri Skepsis, 2001), pp. 215. ISBN 960-7931-69-6, pb (In Greek) €12. - Χρστος Μπαλγλον, Γεώργιος Πλθων-Γεμιστς: Επ των Πελοποννησιακών Πραγμτων Βυζαντιν Κεμενο—Μετπρασις—Σχλια (Christos Baloglou, Georgios Plethon—Gemistos: On the Peloponnesian Affairs, Byzantine Text—Translation—Comments), (Athens: Eleftheri Skepsis, 2002), pp. 295. ISBN 960-7931-78-5, pb (In Greek) €15 pp. 127-130

George A. Petrochilos

Luigino Bruni, Vilfredo Pareto and the Birth of Modern Microeconomics (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2002) pp. x, 166, $75.00. ISBN 1-84064-532-6 pp. 130-132

Christian Weber

Sherryl Davis Kasper, The Revival of Laissez-Faire in American Macroeconomic Theory: A Case Study of the Pioneers (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002), pp. viii, 177, $80.00. ISBN 1-84064-606-3 pp. 132-134

J. Daniel Hammond

Jeffrey Sklansky, The Soul's Economy:Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820–1920 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), pp. xiii, 313, $45. ISBN 0-8078-2725-8 pp. 134-137

Marianne Johnson

Max Weber, The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages, translated and introduced by Lutz Kaelber (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), pp. vi, 197, $35. ISBN 0-7425-2049-8 pp. 137-140

Guy Oakes

Volume 25, issue 4, 2003

Of Rats and Economists pp. 397-411

Terrence McDonough

Ramsey's theory of National Saving: A Mathematician in Cambridge pp. 413-435

Marion Gaspard

Wagner's Swedish Students: Precursors of the Middle Way? pp. 437-459

Benny Carlson

Praxeology, Entrepreneurship and the Market Process: A Review of Kirzner's Contribution pp. 461-486

Keith Jakee and Heath Spong

Frank Knight and the Productivity of Capital: Another Piece of the Puzzle pp. 487-503

Nimai Mehta

“The Labor-Less Labor Supply Model” in the Era Before Philip Wicksteed pp. 505-513

David A. Spencer

John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies: The Classical Dynamics of Hume, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus (Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002) pp. xi, 186, $80.00. ISBN 1-85898-164-6 pp. 515-517

Stephen Meardon

Kenneth E. Carpenter, The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France: 1776–1843 (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002) pp., lxiii, 255, $45, ISBN 0-91430-17-6 pp. 518-520

Loïc Charles

Peter E. Earl, ed., The Legacy of Herbert Simon in Economic Analysis, Volumes I and II (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001) pp. xlv, 1163, $400.00. ISBN 1-85898-526-9 pp. 520-523

Esther-Mirjam Sent

John King, A History of Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936 (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002), pp. vii, 315, $95.00. ISBN 1 84064 1420 6 pp. 523-526

Frederic S. Lee

D. P. O'Brien, ed., The History of Taxation, 8 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999) 2800 pp. £575/$940. ISBN 1-85196-516-5 (set) pp. 526-529

Steven Medema

Volume 25, issue 3, 2003

Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics & The Making of Post-Classical Economics pp. 261-288

Sandra J. Peart and David Levy

McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon pp. 289-301

William S. Kern

Kjeld Philip and His Views on Fiscal Policy pp. 303-325

Niels-Henrik Topp

Emil Lederer: Business Cycles, Crises, and Growth pp. 327-348

Elisabeth Allgoewer

That which is Desired, which Pleases, and which Satisfies: Utility According to Alfred Marshall pp. 349-364

Rozenn Martinoia

Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, eds., A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, 2nd edition (Northampton, MA.: Edward Elgar, 2000), pp. xiv, 722, $225. ISBN 1-85898-560-9 pp. 365-367

Robert Prasch

Jack High, ed., Competition (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2001) pp. xlv + 501, $200. ISBN 1-84064-076-6 pp. 367-369

Pascal Bridel

Kevin D. Hoover, Causality in Macroeconomics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. xiii, 311, hb $70.00, ISBN 0-521-45217-1; pb $25.00, ISBN 0-521-00288-5 pp. 369-372

J. Daniel Hammond

Robert Leeson, ed., A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. xvii, 515, $100. ISBN 0-521-57135-9 pp. 372-376

Marcel Boumans

Michalis Psalidopoulos and Maria Eugenia Mata, eds., Economic Thought and Policy in Less Developed Europe: The Nineteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 320 pp., $100. ISBN: 0-41525-820-0 pp. 376-378

Salim Rashid

Donald A. Walker, ed., The Legacy of Lon Walras (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001), Volume I: xiviii + 592 pages, Volume II: xii + 676 pages. $420. ISBN: 1-858-98526-9 pp. 379-381

Jan van Daal

Volume 25, issue 2, 2003

Remembering Economics pp. 133-143

J. Daniel Hammond

The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s pp. 145-156

Mark Blaug

The Aging of an Economist pp. 157-176

David Colander

Thomas Tooke, Henry Thornton, and the Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy pp. 177-197

Neil T. Skaggs

Knut Wicksell and Gustav Cassel on the Cumulative Process and the Price-Stabilizing Policy Rule pp. 199-220

Thomas M. Humphrey

The Austrians on Relative Inflation as a Cause of Crisis pp. 221-237

Hansjörg Klausinger

Roger E. Backhouse, ed., Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory (Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 1999) pp. ix, 257, $75, ISBN 1-855-066106 (hb); (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2000) pp. 267, $25, ISBN 1-890318-28-0 (pb) pp. 239-242

James C. W. Ahiakpor

Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. xiv, 655, $75, ISBN 0-521-77283-4 (hb); pp. 648, $35, ISBN 0-521-77526-4 (pb) pp. 242-245

Steve Fuller

Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. xiv, 655, $75, ISBN 0-521-77283-4 (hb); pp. 648, $35, 0-521-77526-4 (pb) pp. 245-247

Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

Antoin E. Murphy and Renee Prendergast, eds., Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of R.D.C. Black (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 328, $115, ISBN 0-415-21552-8 pp. 247-249

Roger Backhouse

Roy Weintraub, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002) pp. xiv, 313, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2871-2 pp. 249-252

Theodore Porter

Volume 25, issue 1, 2003

John Neville Keynes's Solution to the English Methodenstreit pp. 5-38

Gregory Moore

On Central Banking “Rules”: Tooke's Critique of the Bank Charter Act of 1844 pp. 39-61

Matthew Smith

Das Adam Smith Problem: Its Origins, the Stages of the Current Debate, and One Implication for Our Understanding of Sympathy pp. 63-90

Leonidas Montes

Romantic Political Economy: Donald Winch and David Levy on Victorian Literature and Economics pp. 91-102

A. M. C. Waterman

Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, and Brian Young, eds., Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History 1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. viii, 283, $23.00. ISBN 0 521 63978 6 (paperback). - Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, and Brian Young, eds., History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. viii, 289, $23.00. ISBN 0 521 62639 0 (paperback) pp. 103-105

Jeff Lipkes

Stephen Edgell, Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001) pp. xiii, 209, $22.95. ISBN 1-56324-117-X pp. 106-108

Doug Brown

Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi, eds., Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, (MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999) pp. xi, 426, $55. ISBN 0-262-07193-2 pp. 108-110

Joel Kaye

Geoffrey M. Hodgson, How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. xix, 422, $36.95. ISBN 0 415 25717 4 pp. 110-112

Roger Backhouse

Michael McLure, Pareto, Economics and Sociology: The Mechanical Analogy (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 240, $90. ISBN 0 41524174 X pp. 113-115

Luigino Bruni

Donald A. Walker, ed., Equilibrium; Vol. I: Introduction to Equilibrium Economics; Vol. II: Equilibrium in Traditional Models; Vol. III: Some Recent Types of Equilibrium Models, Critical Ideas in Economics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000), pp. XXIII, 583, 598, 621, 400, $640. ISBN 1 855898 928 0 pp. 115-117

Michel De Vroey