Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 43, issue 4, 2021

A WIN-WIN MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT: HOW INDIAN ECONOMICS REDEFINED UNIVERSAL DEVELOPMENT FROM AND AT THE MARGINS, 1870–1905 pp. 483-505

Maria Bach

STILLBORN YET NOT WITHOUT INFLUENCE: WHAT MILL’S POLITICAL ECONOMY OWES TO HIS PROJECT OF ETHOLOGY pp. 506-525

Christophe Salvat

ON SIMON NELSON PATTEN’S PROGRESSIVISM: A NOTE pp. 526-547

Luca Fiorito and Massimiliano Vatiero

THE GERMAN ANTI-KEYNES? ON WALTER EUCKEN’S MACROECONOMICS pp. 548-563

Lars Feld, Ekkehard Köhler and Daniel Nientiedt

OF ALCOHOL, APES, AND TAXES: GÜNTER SCHMÖLDERS AND THE REINVENTION OF ECONOMICS IN BEHAVIORAL TERMS pp. 564-586

Rüdiger Graf

INTRODUCTION TO SYMPOSIUM: CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF KEYNES’S TREATISE ON PROBABILITY pp. 587-589

Bradley W. Bateman

KEYNES’S TREATISE, STATISTICAL INFERENCE, AND STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN INTERWAR ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES pp. 590-603

Jeff Biddle

READING KEYNES’S POLICY PAPERS THROUGH THE PRISM OF HIS TREATISE ON PROBABILITY: INFORMATION, EXPECTATIONS, AND REVISION OF PROBABILITIES IN ECONOMIC POLICY pp. 604-618

Sylvie Rivot

PRAGMATISM AND PROBABILITY: RE-EXAMINING KEYNES’S THINKING ON PROBABILITY pp. 619-632

Bradley W. Bateman

Cheryl Misak, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 544 pp., $32.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780198755357 pp. 633-638

Marion Gaspard

Fiorenzo Mornati, Vilfredo Pareto: An Intellectual Biography. Volume III: From Liberty to Science (1898–1923) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. vii + 206, $183.50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783319925486 pp. 638-643

Giorgio Baruchello

Alan Bollard, Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 352, $25 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780198846000 pp. 643-645

Michele Alacevich

Gregory M. Collins, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. xvi + 564, $56.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781108489409 pp. 645-649

Renee Prendergast

Karl Mittermaier, The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory, Foreword by Isabella Mittermaier (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020), pp. 278, freely available at https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-hand-behind-the-invisible-hand. ISBN: 9781529215793 (OA PDF) pp. 649-652

Alain Marciano

Scott Scheall, F.A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics—The Curious Task of Economics, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (London and New York: Routledge 2020), pp. 214, $160 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781138289956 pp. 653-657

Viktor J. Vanberg

Estrella Trincado, Andrés Lazzarini, and Denis Melnik, eds., Ideas in the History of Economic Development—The Case of Peripheral Countries (London and New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 295, $128 (hardcover) and $39 (eBook). ISBN: 9780367220549 (hardcover) pp. 658-663

Mauro Boianovsky

Arie Arnon, Warren Young, and Karine van der Beek, eds., Expectations: Theory and Application from Historical Perspectives (Cham: Springer, 2020), pp. xiv + 238, $160. ISBN: 9783030413569 pp. 663-665

Francesco Sergi

Robert J. Shiller, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 378, $27.50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780691189970 pp. 665-670

Yann Giraud

Volume 43, issue 3, 2021

THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AT THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM DURING THE 1960S pp. 323-349

Juan Acosta and Beatrice Cherrier

WHY ECONOMICS IS AN EVOLUTIONARY, MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE: HOW COULD VEBLEN’S VIEW OF ECONOMICS HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT THAN PEIRCE’S? pp. 350-377

James Wible

ELLEN RICHARDS’S HOME ECONOMICS MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF THE ECONOMICS OF CONSUMPTION pp. 378-400

David Philippy

THE FORMATION OF A “SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM” IN UPPER GERMANY: LEONHARD FRONSPERGER’S “ON THE PRAISE OF SELF-INTEREST” pp. 401-419

Rainer Klump and Lars Pilz

THE TIME-SPACES OF CAPITALISM: SUZANNE DE BRUNHOFF AND MONETARY THOUGHT AFTER MARX pp. 420-432

Laurent Baronian

OVERCOMING ABSOLUTE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: A REAPPRAISAL OF THE RELATIVE CHEAPNESS OF FOREIGN COMMODITIES AS THE BASIS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE pp. 433-449

Jorge Morales Meoqui

JHET INTERVIEWS: KAREN VAUGHN pp. 450-473

Bruce Caldwell

Giandomenica Becchio, A History of Feminist and Gender Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), pp. 238, $160.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781138103757 pp. 474-476

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind, A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020), pp. 316, $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780226597447 pp. 477-479

Max Skjönsberg

George G. Szpiro, Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020), pp. xii + 250, $32.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780231194747 pp. 479-482

Enrico Petracca

Volume 43, issue 2, 2021

LEONARD SAVAGE, THE ELLSBERG PARADOX, AND THE DEBATE ON SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE ARCHIVES pp. 169-192

Carlo Zappia

GRAHAM’S THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL VALUES REVISITED: A RICARDIAN TRADE MODEL WITH LINK COMMODITIES pp. 193-218

Hideo Sato

HERBERT SPENCER’S CASE FOR FREE BANKING pp. 219-236

George Bragues

INTRODUCTION TO SYMPOSIUM: ECONOMICS AND ITS BOUNDARIES pp. 237-240

John Davis and Franck Jovanovic

THE EMERGENCE OF GEOGRAPHICAL ECONOMICS: AT THE CONTESTED BOUNDARIES OF ECONOMICS, GEOGRAPHY, AND REGIONAL SCIENCE pp. 241-261

Jasmeen Rahman and Robert Dimand

THE PENETRATION OF ENGINEERING BY ECONOMICS: McFADDEN AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ROAD DEMAND ESTIMATION pp. 262-278

Ariane Dupont-Kieffer, Sylvie Rivot and Jean-Loup Madre

POLLY HILL: CROSSING AND CONTESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AFRICAN STUDIES, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES pp. 279-296

Robert Dimand and Kojo Saffu

THE ECONOMIST AS SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, OR PLUMBER? pp. 297-312

Huei-Chun Su and David Colander

Mark Solovey, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), pp. 408, $50. ISBN: 9780262539050 pp. 313-314

Daniel Hirschman

Bruna Ingrao and Claudio Sardoni, Banks and Finance in Modern Macroeconomics: A Historical Perspective (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019), pp. 296, $145 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781786431523 pp. 315-317

Juan Acosta

Ryan P. Hanley, Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), pp. 176, $17.95. ISBN: 9780691179445 pp. 317-320

Maria A. Carrasco

Iván Jaksić (general editor), Andrés Estefane, and Claudio Robles (editors for Volume III), Historia política de Chile, 1810–2010. Volume III, Problemas económicos (Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2018), pp. 444, $30. ISBN: 9789562891776 (Spanish ed.) pp. 320-322

Juan Ricardo Couyoumdjian

Volume 43, issue 1, 2021

JEWISH SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE ANALYSIS OF JEWISH STATISTICS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY pp. 1-26

Nicolas Vallois

W. STARK, J. M. KEYNES, AND THE MERCANTILISTS pp. 27-54

Constantinos Repapis

A RECONSIDERATION OF THE DOCTRINAL FOUNDATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY RULES: FISHER VERSUS CHICAGO pp. 55-82

George Tavlas

A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT “THE HAYEK STORY”: ROUNDABOUTNESS, STICKY CONSUMPTION, AND SEQUESTERED CAPITAL pp. 83-102

James McClure, David Chandler Thomas and Lee Spector

THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENTAL INEFFICIENCY IN PLATO’S REPUBLIC pp. 103-117

Gil Hersch

THE PLEASURE OF EXCHANGE: ADAM SMITH’S THIRD KIND OF SELF-LOVE pp. 118-140

Michele Bee

JHET INTERVIEWS: ROBERT F. HÉBERT pp. 141-158

Manuela Mosca

Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson, Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society (Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 215, $28.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9781108185561 pp. 159-161

Michael D. Thomas

Christian Maurer, Self-Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates from Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 240, 75£ (hardcover). ISBN: 9781474413374 pp. 161-164

Benoît Walraevens

Simon Adler, Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774: The Contribution of Ludwig Zinzendorf (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. xv + 288, 103.99€ (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030310066 pp. 164-167

Paul Cheney