Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 37, issue 4, 2015

MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS COMES TO AMERICA: CHARLES S. PEIRCE’S ENGAGEMENT WITH COURNOT’S RECHERCHES SUR LES PRINCIPES MATHÉMATIQUES DE LA THÉORIE DES RICHESSES pp. 511-536

James Wible and Kevin Hoover

CARMICHAEL’S ARCTAN TREND: PRECURSOR OF SMOOTH TRANSITION FUNCTIONS pp. 537-557

Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson

EQUITY, BESIDES: ADAM SMITH AND THE UTILITY OF POVERTY pp. 559-581

Christopher S. Martin

WIESER’S UNITY OF THOUGHT pp. 583-596

Natsuka Tokumaru

THEORIES OF THE FIRM IN ENGLAND BEFORE COASE: STEMMING THE TIDE OF ‘RATIONALIZATION’ ON THE EVE OF “THE NATURE OF THE FIRM” pp. 597-614

Carlo Cristiano

Marcel Boumans and Matthias Klaes, eds., Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013), pp. ix + 302, $140. ISBN 978-1-78195-566-6 pp. 615-623

Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino

Harro Maas, Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction, translated from Dutch by Liz Waters (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 188, $160, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-915-82284-8 pp. 623-626

Till Düppe

Paul Oslington, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 656, $142.50, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-19-972971-5 pp. 626-629

Yong-Sun Yang

Jacob Viner, The Customs Union Issue, edited and with an introduction by Paul Oslington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 256, $39.95. ISBN 978-0199-75612-4 pp. 629-630

Ross Emmett

Malcolm Rutherford, The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947: Science and Social Control (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 410, $109.99. ISBN 978-1-107-00699-7 pp. 630-634

Bruce Kaufman

Nicola Giocoli, Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics: A Historical Perspective (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 323, $140. ISBN 978-0-415-82252-7 pp. 635-637

Michele Grillo

Walter A. Friedman, Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 288, $29.95, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-69115-911-9 pp. 637-645

Aris Spanos

Michael Bordo and William Roberds, eds., The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve: A Return to Jekyll Island (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 432, $109.99. ISBN 978-1-107-01372-8 pp. 645-650

John Wood

Jessica M. Lepler, The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. xvii + 337, $30, paperback. ISBN 978-1-107-64086-3 pp. 650-651

Richard Salvucci

Ricardo F. Crespo, A Re-Asssessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. xx + 145, $115.56. ISBN 978-0-415-82057-8 (hardcover); 978-1-315-88351-9 (ebook) pp. 651-655

Jimena Hurtado Prieto

Mark Peacock, Introducing Money (London, New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 224, $45. ISBN 978-0-415-53988-3 pp. 655-658

Mauricio Coutinho

L. Randall Wray, ed., Theories of Money and Banking (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012), pp. 1332 (2 volumes), $685, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-84844-103-3 pp. 658-660

Simon Bilo

Evan F. Koening, Robert Leeson, and George Kahn, eds., “The Taylor Rule and the Transformation of Monetary Policy” (Stanford: Stanford University, Hoover Institution Press, 2012), pp. 345, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8179-1404-2-53495 pp. 660-664

Nicolas Barbaroux

Yong-Sun Yang, Economies of Salvation: Adam Smith and Hegel (Bern: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. xv + 213, $56.95, paperback. ISBN 978-3-03430-259-3 pp. 664-666

Craig Smith

Fatih Ermis, A History of Ottoman Economic Thought: Developments before the Nineteenth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 232, $140. ISBN 978-0415-54006-3 pp. 666-667

Michalis Psalidopoulos

Huei-chun Su, Economic Justice and Liberty: The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 214 + xviii, $140. ISBN 978-0415-69275-5 pp. 667-670

Sandra J. Peart and David Levy

Tiziano Raffaelli, Giacomo Becattini, Katia Caldari, and Marco Dardi, eds., The Impact of Alfred Marshall’s Ideas—The Global Diffusion of His Work (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. 251, $133, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-84720-512-4 pp. 670-674

Lise Arena

Jeremy Adelman, Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. xv + 740, $39.95, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-69115-567-8 pp. 674-680

Roger Sandilands

Volume 37, issue 3, 2015

TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS BY DAVID RICARDO ON A MONETARY PAMPHLET BY SAMUEL TERTIUS GALTON pp. 341-361

Christophe Depoortère

ISAAK RUBIN: HISTORIAN OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT DURING THE STALINIZATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN SOVIET RUSSIA pp. 363-386

Ivan Boldyrev and Martin Kragh

HARVARD MEETS THE CRISIS: THE MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY OF LAUCHLIN B. CURRIE, JACOB VINER, JOHN H. WILLIAMS, AND HARRY D. WHITE pp. 387-410

Michele Alacevich, Pier Asso and Sebastiano Nerozzi

FIXED CAPITAL IN AGRICULTURE: RICHARD JONES’S CRITIQUE OF RICARDO’S THEORY OF RENT pp. 411-430

Christian Gehrke

THE ORIGIN OF THE SYLOS POSTULATE: MODIGLIANI’S AND SYLOS LABINI’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO OLIGOPOLY THEORY pp. 431-448

Antonella Rancan

ON THE CONCEPT OF ‘FELICITAS PUBLICA’ IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY pp. 449-471

D’Onofrio, Federico

Paul Cheney, Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy, Harvard Historical Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 320, $54. ISBN 978-0674-04726-6 pp. 473-475

Loïc Charles

David Simpson, The Rediscovery of Classical Economics: Adaptation, Complexity and Growth (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013), pp. 215, $114. ISBN 978-1-78195-196-5 pp. 476-481

Frederic Sautet

Angeliki E. Laiou, Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium, edited by Cécile Morrisson and Rowan Dorin, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013), pp. xiv + 332, $170. ISBN 978-1-4094-3205-0 pp. 481-484

Christos P. Baloglou

Geoff Pilling, Marxist Political Economy. Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling, edited by Doria Pilling (New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 246, $140. ISBN 978-0-415-67852-0 pp. 485-487

Michael Perelman

Evert Schoorl, Jean-Baptiste Say: Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. xix, 210, $150. ISBN 978-0-415-66517-9 pp. 487-489

Evelyn Forget

Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013), pp. 266, $120. ISBN 978-0748-64532-9 pp. 489-492

Leonidas Montes

Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. Lopez, Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. 209, $29.95. ISBN 978-0804-78097-1 pp. 492-495

Shruti Rajagopalan

Ryuzo Kuroki, ed., Keynes and Modern Economics (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 270, $145. ISBN 978-0-415-46977-7 pp. 495-499

Sylvie Rivot

Geoff Harcourt and Peter Kriesler, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), volume 1: pp. xii, 623, £95 (US $150), hardcover. ISBN 978-0-19-539076-6. Volume 2: pp. x, 516, £95 (US $150), hardcover. ISBN 978-0-19-539075-9 pp. 499-502

Mark Hayes

Christos P. Baloglou, Aristotle and the Economic Science: A Historical and Economical Miscellany (Thessaloniki: Malliaris-Paideia, 2012), pp. 159. ISBN 978-960-457-522-0 pp. 502-505

Denis Drosos

Samuel Hollander, Essays on Classical and Marxian Political Economy: Collected Essays IV (London and New York: Routledge, 2013) pp. xxviii, 404. ISBN 978-0-415-52768-2 pp. 505-510

A. M. C. Waterman

Volume 37, issue 2, 2015

INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM: AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY FROM THE AGE OF JACKSON TO THE CIVIL WAR pp. 161-162

Stephen Meardon

REMARKS OF THE GENERAL DISCUSSANT: A DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN ECONOMICS? WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, AND WHY IT MATTERS pp. 163-169

Steven Medema

OLMSTED, DE BOW, AND THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE ON THE AMERICAN SLAVE SOUTH pp. 171-185

Harro Maas

THE AMERICAN SYSTEM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLACK COLONIZATION pp. 187-202

Phillip W. Magness

THE POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SECESSION pp. 203-219

Brian Schoen

THIS MEANS (BANK) WAR! CORRUPTION AND CREDIBLE COMMITMENTS IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE SECOND BANK OF THE UNITED STATES pp. 221-245

James A. Morrison

AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE COMMON SCHOOL MOVEMENT: 1820–1850 pp. 247-262

Joseph Persky

HENRY CAREY’S RURAL ROOTS, “SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE,” AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE ANTEBELLUM NORTH pp. 263-275

Ariel Ron

“A TAX ON THE MANY, TO ENRICH A FEW”: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY VS. THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF pp. 277-289

William S. Belko

FREE-TRADE IDEOLOGY AND TRANSATLANTIC ABOLITIONISM: A HISTORIOGRAPHY pp. 291-304

Marc-William Palen

HENRY C. CAREY’S “ZONE THEORY” AND AMERICAN SECTIONAL CONFLICT pp. 305-320

Stephen Meardon

Murat Cizakca, Islamic Capitalism and Finance: Origins, Evolution and the Future (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011), pp. 323, $150. ISBN 978-0-85793-147-4 pp. 321-323

Hamid Hosseini

Jesper Jespersen and Mogens Ove Madsen, eds., Keynes's General Theory for Today: Contemporary Perspectives (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. 256, £60.30. ISBN 978-78100-951-2 pp. 323-326

Dror Goldberg

Lisa Herzog, Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 208, $110. ISBN 978-0-19-967417-6 pp. 326-328

Ryan Patrick Hanley

G. Page WestIII and Robert M. Whaples, eds., The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013), pp. vii, 192. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-78254-532-3 pp. 329-332

David Laidler

Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece: Politics, Taxation and Rational Behavior (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. xiii, 188, $140. ISBN 978-0-415-63016-0 pp. 332-334

David Levy

Roger Frantz and Robert Leeson, eds., Hayek and Behavioral Economics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) pp. xvii, 349, $115. ISBN 978-0-230-30116-0 pp. 334-337

Scott Scheall

Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub, Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit (Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 304, $39.50, hardcover. ISBN 978-0691-15664-4 pp. 337-340

Steven Medema

Volume 37, issue 1, 2015

2014 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS BEES AND SILKWORMS: MANDEVILLE, HUME, AND THE FRAMING OF POLITICAL ECONOMY pp. 1-15

Margaret Schabas

THE LEVEL AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE, ACCORDING TO FRANÇOIS QUESNAY pp. 17-37

Branko Milanovic

MILL’S FOURTH FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITION ON CAPITAL: A PARADOX EXPLAINED pp. 39-56

Steven Kates

EUGENE MEYER AND THE GERMAN INFLUENCE ON THE ORIGIN OF US FEDERAL FINANCIAL RESCUES pp. 57-77

James Butkiewicz

THE METHODOLOGY OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AS A SOPHISTICATED, RATHER THAN NAIVE, PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS pp. 79-85

Peter Boettke

HAYEK THE APRIORIST? pp. 87-110

Scott Scheall

IMPLICATIONS OF MACHLUP’S INTERPRETATION OF MISES’S EPISTEMOLOGY pp. 111-138

Gabriel J. Zanotti and Nicolas Cachanosky

WITH SUCH A FRIEND OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? - Steven Kates, Defending the History of Economic Thought (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar), pp. x, 140, $103. ISBN 978-1-84844-820-9 pp. 139-144

Marcel Boumans

STEVEN KATES REPLIES: WHY THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT NEEDS DEFENDING pp. 145-150

Steven Kates

Bernard E. Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets; Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 336, $29.95. ISBN 978-0674-05726-5 pp. 151-154

Fabrizio Simon

George Stathakis and Gianni Vaggi, eds., Economic Development and Social Change. Historical roots and modern perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006 (2012?) pp. 154-155

Bruno Chiarini

Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, Ownership Economics: On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development, edited by Frank Decker (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), pp. xvii, 192, hardcover, $130. ISBN: 978-0415-64546-1 pp. 155-157

William Luther

Robert Leeson, ed., Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part 1, Influences from Mises to Bartley (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. viii, 252, $105 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0230-30112-2 pp. 157-160

Régis Servant