Journal of the History of Economic Thought

1979 - 2025

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Volume 35, issue 4, 2013

DOING MONETARY ECONOMICS IN THE SOUTH: SUBERCASEAUX ON PAPER MONEY pp. 423-447

Alain Alcouffe and Mauro Boianovsky

Between Progressivism and Institutionalism: Albert Benedict Wolfe on Eugenics pp. 449-469

Luca Fiorito

JONATHAN SWIFT ON THE LIVES OF THE POOR NATIVE IRISH AS SEEN THROUGH “A MODEST PROPOSAL” AND OTHER OF HIS WRITINGS pp. 471-489

Patrick Welch

Contextual History, Practitioner History, and Classic Status: Reading Jacob Viner’s The Customs Union Issue pp. 491-515

Paul Oslington

ON VIRTUES AND AWARDS: GIACINTO DRAGONETTI AND THE TRADITION OF ECONOMIA CIVILE IN ENLIGHTENMENT ITALY pp. 517-535

Luigino Bruni

Heinz Kurz, ed., The Theory of Value and Distribution in Economics (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 144, $130. ISBN: 978-0-415-51959-5 pp. 537-539

Roger Backhouse

Samuel Hollander, Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xiv, 408, $99.00. ISBN 978–0521761635 pp. 539-542

Vincent Barnett

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006) pp. x, 377, $40.00. ISBN 0-262-13460-8 pp. 542-545

Perry Mehrling

Lawrence H. White, The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 428, $45 paperback. ISBN 978-1-107-62133-6 pp. 545-547

Perry Mehrling

Mark Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 360, $39.95. ISBN 978-0691143590 pp. 547-550

James Halteman

Arie Arnon, Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit, and the Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 448, $103.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-521-19113-5 pp. 550-552

Simon Bilo

Robert E. LucasJr., Collected Papers on Monetary Theory, ed. Max Gillman. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013), pp. 568, $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-674-06687-8 pp. 552-554

Simon Bilo

Robert Leroux, Political Economy and Liberalism in France: The Contributions of Frederic Bastiat, trans. Robert Showman, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Routledge: London, 2011), pp. xx, 182, $125. ISBN 978-0-41558-055-7 pp. 554-556

Sarah Skwire

Liana Vardi, The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. viii, 315, $99. ISBN 978-1-10702-119-8 pp. 556-558

Gianni Vaggi

Heinz D. Kurz, Tamotsu Nishizawa, and Keith Tribe, eds., The Dissemination of Economic Ideas (Cheltenam, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011), pp. v, 367, $150. ISBN 978-0-85793-557-1 pp. 558-561

Gerardo Serra

Volume 35, issue 3, 2013

HAYEK’S UNACKNOWLEDGED DISCIPLE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL RELATIONSHIP OF F. A. HAYEK AND AARON DIRECTOR (1945–1950) pp. 271-290

Robert van Horn

VON HAYEK AND ORDOLIBERALISM ON JUSTICE pp. 291-317

Manuel Wörsdörfer

ECONOPHYSICS: A NEW CHALLENGE FOR FINANCIAL ECONOMICS? pp. 319-352

Franck Jovanovic and Christophe Schinckus

PIGOU, KNIGHT, DIMINISHING RETURNS, AND OPTIMAL PIGOUVIAN CONGESTION TOLLS pp. 353-371

John McDonald

‘CANNOT BE FED ON WHEN STARVING’: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC THOUGHT SURROUNDING CHINA’S EARLIER USE OF PAPER MONEY pp. 373-395

Niv Horesh

GENTLEMEN PREFER LIQUIDITY: EVIDENCE FROM KEYNES pp. 397-422

Sylvie Rivot

Volume 35, issue 2, 2013

INTRODUCTION: IRVING FISHER AND THE PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY: A CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM pp. 131-133

Robert Dimand

AMERICAN QUANTITY THEORISTS PRIOR TO IRVING FISHER’S THE PURCHASING POWER OF MONEY pp. 135-152

Jérôme de Boyer Des Roches and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

THE INFLUENCE OF IRVING FISHER ON MILTON FRIEDMAN’S MONETARY ECONOMICS pp. 153-177

Michael Bordo and Hugh Rockoff

IRVING FISHER, DEBT DEFLATION, AND CRISES pp. 179-183

Robert Shiller

IRVING FISHER’S PROGENY AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS pp. 185-197

Alice Nakamura

IRVING FISHER AND INDEX NUMBER THEORY pp. 199-232

Walter Diewert

INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY FOR F. A. HAYEK’S “THE OVERRATED REASON” pp. 233-237

Evelyn Gick and Petrik Runst

THE OVERRATED REASON pp. 239-256

Friedrich von Hayek

ADAM SMITH AND THE NEED OF THE POOR: A REJOINDER pp. 257-262

Amos Witztum

David Reisman, The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. viii, 338, $150.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-85793-2181 pp. 263-265

Giorgio Baruchello

Richard Grossman, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. xx, 384, Index, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-13905-0 pp. 266-267

Howard Bodenhorn

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), pp. 320, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-67405-813-2 pp. 268-270

Craig Smith

Volume 35, issue 1, 2013

2012 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DOES THE VICTOR ENJOY THE SPOILS? PAUL SAMUELSON AS HISTORIAN OF ECONOMICS pp. 1-17

Philip Mirowski

WILLIAM NASSAU SENIOR AND DAVID RICARDO ON THE METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY pp. 19-42

Christophe Depoortère

OIKONOMIA REDEFINED pp. 43-61

Dotan Leshem

“THE MERCHANTS OF CADIZ AND LISBON”: PARSIMONY, THE RATE OF PROFIT, AND ACCUMULATION IN WEALTH OF NATIONS pp. 63-76

A.M.C. Waterman

THE MODERN RICARDIAN EQUIVALENCE THEOREM: DRAWING THE WRONG CONCLUSIONS FROM DAVID RICARDO’S ANALYSIS pp. 77-92

James C.W. Ahiakpor

THE MARXIAN WAGE THEORY AGAINST THE “ABSOLUTE IMMIZERATION” DOCTRINE pp. 93-111

Laurent Baronian

Jonathan Schlefer, The Assumptions Economists Make (Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012), pp. xvii+356, hardback, $28.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05226-0 pp. 113-115

Roger Backhouse

Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, eds., Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xviii, 270, hardback, $90. ISBN: 978-0-230-34050-3 pp. 115-119

Philippe Fontaine

Daniel K. Finn, ed., The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 408, $35. ISBN 978-0-199-73982-0 pp. 119-122

Allen B. Moran

Jamie Peck, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. vi, 30, $45. ISBN-13: 978-0199580576 pp. 122-124

Paul Burnett

Steven Johnstone, A History of Trust in Ancient Greece (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 272, hardback, $45. ISBN 978-0-226-40509-4 pp. 125-127

F. Andrew Hanssen

James Halteman and Edd Noell, Reckoning with Markets: Moral Reflection in Economics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 218, hardback, $35. ISBN 978-0-19-976370-2 pp. 127-129

Paul Oslington

Volume 34, issue 4, 2012

THE ACCELERATOR PRINCIPLE AT THE CORE OF FRISCH’S 1933 ROCKING HORSE MODEL pp. 447-473

Ariane Dupont-Kieffer

THE MACHINE IN ADAM SMITH’S ECONOMIC AND WIDER THOUGHT pp. 475-490

Tony Aspromourgos

ARROW AND DEBREU DE-HOMOGENIZED pp. 491-514

Till Düppe

THE RISE OF GREED IN EARLY ECONOMIC THOUGHT: FROM DEADLY SIN TO SOCIAL BENEFIT pp. 515-539

Rudi Verburg

THE HISTORY OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTERDEPENDENT PREFERENCES pp. 541-557

Stavros Drakopoulos

ADAM SMITH ON JUSTICE AND THE NEEDS OF THE POOR pp. 559-575

John Salter

INVENTING THE MARKET. SMITH, HEGEL, AND POLITICAL THEORY pp. 577-579

Lisa Herzog

Tomas Sedlacek, Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xii, 352. ISBN 978 0 19 976720 5. - David C. Rose, The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. xiii, 269, $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978 0 19 978174 4 pp. 581-584

Donald E. Frey

Warren J. Samuels (with the assistance of Marianne F. Johnson and William H. Perry), Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 352, $95.00. ISBN 9780521517256 pp. 584-587

Terry Peach

Volume 34, issue 3, 2012

REVIVING CONFIDENCE pp. 293-320

Carol M. Connell

EVELINE MABEL BURNS: THE NEGLECTED CONTRIBUTIONS OF A SOCIAL SECURITY PIONEER pp. 321-337

Sherry Davis Kasper

CLARE DE GRAFFENREID AND THE ART OF CONTROVERSY: A PRIZEWINNING WOMAN ECONOMIST IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION pp. 339-353

Robert Dimand and Geoffrey Black

RELATIVE INCOME VS. PERMANENT INCOME: THE CRISIS OF THE THEORY OF THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONSUMPTION pp. 355-377

Attilio Trezzini

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A SUM (∑) MAKES: SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN THE RATIONALIZATION OF DEMAND pp. 379-396

D. Wade Hands

OSWALD TOYNBEE FALK: KEYNES’ MODEL ECONOMIST? pp. 397-410

Alex Millmow

ADAM SMITH ON METHOD: NEWTONIANISM, HISTORY, INSTITUTIONS, AND THE “INVISIBLE HAND” pp. 411-435

Stefano Fiori

BOOK REVIEWS - Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman, Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 197, $25.95. ISBN 978-0-674-05775-3 pp. 437-440

Dr Robert A. Cord

Perry Mehrling, The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. xii, 174, $29.95. IBSN 978-0-691-14398-9 pp. 440-442

Kevin Hoover

Vincent Barnett, E.E. Slutsky as Economist and Mathematician: Crossing the Limits of Knowledge (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. xvii, 225, $130 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-415-54960-8 pp. 442-445

François Allisson

Volume 34, issue 2, 2012

THE MATHEMATICAL TURN IN ECONOMICS: WALRAS, THE FRENCH MATHEMATICIANS, AND THE ROAD NOT TAKEN pp. 149-167

Michael H. Turk

EXPLORING HAWTREY’S SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY THROUGH HIS UNPUBLISHED BOOK, RIGHT POLICY pp. 169-192

Toshiaki Hirai

DUMPING AS PRICE DISCRIMINATION: JANNACCONE’S CLASSIC THEORY BEFORE VINER pp. 193-218

Simona Cantono and Roberto Marchionatti

THE POPULARIZATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA THROUGH ENCYCLOPEDIAS (1887–1930) pp. 219-242

Jesús Astigarraga and Juan Zabalza

THE ORGANIZATIONAL PROPERTIES OF MONEY: GUSTAVO DEL VECCHIO’S THEORY pp. 243-260

Gianfranco Tusset

THE MANAGERIAL RATIONALITY, FROM DOMESTIC ADMINISTRATION TO GOVERNANCE pp. 261-262

Thibault Le Texier

THE ECONOMIC APPROACH TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR: A HISTORICAL REVIEW AND AN ATTEMPT TO COMBINE IT WITH OTHER APPROACHES pp. 262-264

Dotan Leshem

Veronica Montecinos and John Markoff, eds., Economists in the Americas (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 341, $150. ISBN: 978-1-84542-043-7 pp. 265-267

Andrés Álvarez

Stephen H. Kellert, Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), x + pp. 292, $35.00. ISBN 0226429784 pp. 267-270

Matthieu Ballandonne

Nancy Folbre, Greed, Lust & Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. xxxiii, 379, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-923842-2 pp. 271-274

Robert Dimand

Jörg Bibow, Keynes on Monetary Policy, Finance and Uncertainty: Liquidity Preference Theory and the Global Financial Crisis (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xii, 249, £85 (US $135.00). ISBN 978-0-415-35262-8 (hardback); £32.50 (US $42.50). ISBN 978-0-415-61647-8 (paperback) pp. 274-276

Mark Hayes

Thomas Karier, Intellectual Capital: Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 351, $35.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76326-4 pp. 276-279

Barry Hirsch

Robert Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science 1900–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. vi, 469, $55.00. ISBN 978-0-521-56266-9 pp. 279-282

Alessandro Innocenti

Agnar Sandmo, Economics Evolving. A History of Economic Thought (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. vii, 489, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-14842-7 pp. 282-285

Roberto Lampa

Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler, The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions (Auburn, AL: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011), pp. 244, $17.00. ISBN 978-1-610-16134-3 pp. 285-287

Matthew McCaffrey

D.P. O’Brien and J. Creedy, eds., Darwin’s Clever Neighbour, George Warde Norman and his Circle (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. lvi, 444, $165. ISBN 978-1-84844-557-4 pp. 287-289

Matthew Smith

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Robbert Maseland, Culture in Economics: History, Methodological Reflections, and Contemporary Applications (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. xx, 388, $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19300-9 pp. 289-292

Andrej Sušjan

Volume 34, issue 1, 2012

HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: WHAT’S WRONG WITH ECONOMICS? pp. 1-20

Jerry Evensky

C.E. FERGUSON’S LOST REPLY TO JOAN ROBINSON ON THE THEORY OF CAPITAL pp. 21-41

Scott Carter

PARETO’S INFLUENCE ON SCHOLARS FROM THE ITALIAN TRADITION IN PUBLIC FINANCE pp. 43-66

Amedeo Fossati

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NICOLAS DUTOT pp. 67-107

Francois Velde

THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ECONOPHYSICS IN THE SHADOW OF PHYSICS pp. 109-130

Y. Gingras and C. Schinckus

GROWTH AND PROGRESS IN ADAM SMITH’S THOUGHT pp. 131-132

Benoît Walraevens

Helen Yaffe, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution (London: Palgrave, 2009), pp. xiii, 368, $130.00. ISBN 978-0230218215 pp. 133-136

Kamran Nayeri

Elvira Vilches, New World Gold: Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), pp. 368, $45. ISBN 9780226856186 pp. 136-138

Carl Wennerlind

William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch, Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, fifth edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), pp. 456, $31.95. ISBN 978-0-262-01276-8. - Karen Ilse Horn, Roads to Wisdom: Conversation with Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009), pp. 384, £95.00. ISBN 978-1-84844-670-0 pp. 138-141

Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

Christopher S. Chivvis, The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-century Free Market Thought (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010), pp. xi, 234, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-87580-417-0 pp. 141-145

M. June Flanders

Lluís Barbé, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A Portrait with Family and Friends, translated by Mary C. Black (Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. xxxvi, 291, $150. ISBN 978-1-84844-716-5. Originally published in Catalan in 2006 pp. 146-147

Harro Maas