History of Political Economy

1969 - 2020

Current editor(s): Kevin D. Hoover

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Volume 46, issue 5, 2014

Introduction: Telling the Story of MIT Economics in the Postwar Period pp. 1-12

E. Roy Weintraub

Toward a History of Economics at MIT, 1940-72 pp. 15-44

Beatrice Cherrier

MIT’s Openness to Jewish Economists pp. 45-59

E. Roy Weintraub

Paul A. Samuelson’s Move to MIT pp. 60-77

Roger Backhouse

The Early Years of the MIT PhD Program in Industrial Economics pp. 81-108

Pedro Duarte

MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography pp. 109-133

Andrej SvorenÄ Ã­k

Negotiating the “Middle-of-the-Road†Position: Paul Samuelson, MIT, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55 pp. 134-152

Yann Giraud

Serving the Institute and the Discipline: The Changing Profile of Economics at MIT as Viewed from Textbooks pp. 153-174

Pedro Teixeira

MIT and Money pp. 177-197

Perry Mehrling

In the Kingdom of Solovia: The Rise of Growth Economics at MIT, 1956-70 pp. 198-228

Mauro Boianovsky and Kevin Hoover

From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multipurpose Design pp. 229-251

Verena Halsmayer

Decisions and Dynamics: Postwar Theoretical Problems and the MIT Style of Economics pp. 295-314

William Thomas

The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department’s PhD Program: Black Americans at MIT pp. 317-336

William Darity and Arden Kreeger

The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT pp. 337-350

Peter Temin

On Kindleberger and Hegemony: From Berlin to MIT and Back pp. 351-374

Stephen Meardon

Volume 46, issue 4, 2014

Truly Handmaidens to Policy? Evaluating Agricultural Economists’ Claim to a Distinct Tradition of Applied Economics pp. 545-571

Jonathan S. Franklin

Blanco White, Spanish America, and Economic Affairs: The Slave Trade and Colonial Trade pp. 573-608

Luis Perdices de Blas and Jose Luis Ramos-Gorostiza

Cantillon on Profit and Interest: New Insights from Other Versions of His Writings pp. 609-640

Richard van den Berg

“Self-Interest Ennobledâ€: The Family in German Political Economy pp. 641-675

Marynel Ryan Van Zee

Reference-Dependence and Marginal Utility: Alt, Samuelson, and Bernardelli pp. 677-693

Marek Hudik

Volume 46, issue 3, 2014

The Sanguine Science: The Historical Contexts of A. C. Pigou's Welfare Economics pp. 357-386

Norikazu Takami

On Aristotle's Natural Limit pp. 387-407

C. Tyler DesRoches

Keynes, Lerner, and the Question of Public Debt pp. 408-433

Tony Aspromourgos

General Equilibrium Theory behind the Iron Curtain: The Case of Victor Polterovich pp. 435-461

Ivan Boldyrev and Olessia Kirtchik

The Second Jansenism and the Rise of French Eighteenth-Century Political Economy pp. 463-490

Arnaud Orain

William Blake on the Effects of Government Fiscal Policy on Activity and Prices pp. 491-523

Matthew Smith

Henry Simons's Death pp. 525-535

Robert Van Horn

Volume 46, issue 2, 2014

The Puzzle of Metallism: Searching for the Nature of Money pp. 177-210

Filippo Cesarano

Haavelmo’s Epistemology for an Inexact Science pp. 211-229

Marcel Boumans

J. S. Mill and the Value of Utility pp. 231-246

Shiri Cohen Kaminitz

Social Needs, Social Goods, and Human Associations in the Second Edition of Carl Menger’s Principles pp. 247-264

Giandomenica Becchio

The Role of Intelligence, Institutions, and Place in Carlo Cattaneo's Economics pp. 265-280

Tiziano Raffaelli

What Is a Just Society? The Answer according to the Socialistes Fraternitaires Louis Blanc, Constantin Pecqueur, and François Vidal pp. 281-306

Ludovic Frobert

Guicciardini’s La Decima scalata: The First Treatise on Progressive Taxation pp. 307-331

Nikola Regent

An Unpublished Letter from James Mill to Jean-Baptiste Say pp. 333-338

Victor Bianchini and Nicolas Rieucau

Volume 46, issue 1, 2014

Progressivism and Academic Public Finance, 1880 to 1930 pp. 1-32

Marianne Johnson

A Tale of Two Destinies: Georgescu-Roegen on Gossen pp. 33-54

Paola Tubaro

Adam Smith’s “Optimistic Deism,†the Invisible Hand of Providence, and the Unhappiness of Nations pp. 55-83

Terry Peach

Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory pp. 85-116

D. Wade Hands

Are There Important Differences between Classical and Twenty-First-Century Monetary Theories? Did the Keynesian and Monetarist Revolutions Matter? pp. 117-148

John H. Wood

Rigor versus Relevance in Economic Theory: A Plea for a Different Methodological Perspective pp. 149-166

Andrea Salanti

Volume 45, issue 5, 2013

Cultures of Expertise and the Public Interventions of Economists pp. 1-19

Tiago Mata and Steven Medema

"Perhaps I'm a Don Quixote but I'm Trying to Be a Paul Revere": Irving Fisher as a Public Intellectual pp. 20-37

Robert Dimand

Observers, Commentators, and Persuaders: British Interwar Economists as Public Intellectuals pp. 38-67

Chris Godden

Inside Out: Keynes's Use of the Public Sphere pp. 68-91

Roger Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman

Walter Lippmann: The Making of a Public Economist pp. 92-113

Craufurd Goodwin

Lionel Robbins: Political Economist pp. 114-136

Susan Howson

Henry Hazlitt as an Intellectual Middleman of "Orthodox Economics" pp. 137-165

Peter Boettke and Liya Palagashvili

Federal Reserve Bank Presidents as Pubilc Intellectuals pp. 166-190

Rob Roy McGregor and Warren Young

Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas pp. 191-219

Angus Burgin

Economic Indicators as Public Interventions pp. 220-253

Gil Eyal and Moran Levy

Becker and Posner: Freedom of Speech and Public Intellectualship pp. 254-278

Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

Private Intellectuals and Public Perplexity: The Economics Profession and the Economic Crisis pp. 279-311

Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah

Volume 45, issue 4, 2013

Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1910-45) pp. 567-612

Loïc Charles and Yann Giraud

Abba Lerner and the Political Economy of Bureaucracy and Organizations pp. 613-622

Daniel L. Cuda

Design for a Streamlined War Economy pp. 623-645

Abba P. Lerner

Friedrich List and the Economic Fate of Tropical Countries pp. 647-691

Mauro Boianovsky

Tariffs and Trusts, Profiteers and Middlemen: Popular Explanations for the High Cost of Living, 1897-1920 pp. 693-746

Mark Aldrich

Volume 45, issue 3, 2013

Were Jevons, Menger, and Walras Really Cardinalists? On the Notion of Measurement in Utility Theory, Psychology, Mathematics, and Other Disciplines, 1870-1910 pp. 373-414

Ivan Moscati

Beggars: Jeremy Bentham versus William Wordsworth pp. 415-442

James P. Henderson

The Emergence of Econophysics: A New Approach in Modern Financial Theory pp. 443-474

Franck Jovanovic and Christophe Schinckus

The Puzzle of Marx's Missing "Results": A Tale of Two Theories pp. 475-504

Gilbert Skillman

Adam Smith's "Collateral" Inquiry: Fashion and Morality in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations" pp. 505-522

Craig Smith

The Discovery of the Faustmann Formula in Natural Resource Economics pp. 523-548

Esa-Jussi Viitala

Volume 45, issue 2, 2013

"Marvellous Intellectual Feasts": Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933-48 pp. 187-221

Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley

Why Market Failures Are Not a Problem: James Buchanan on Market Imperfections, Voluntary Cooperation, and Externalities pp. 223-254

Alain Marciano

Assessments of A. C. Pigou's Fellowship Theses pp. 255-285

Michael McLure

Utilitarianism and Luck pp. 287-309

Joseph Persky

From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall pp. 311-343

Simon Cook

Volume 45, issue 1, 2013

Modigliani's and Simon's Early Contributions to Uncertainty (1952-61) pp. 1-38

Antonella Rancan

Belling the Cat: Eli F. Heckscher on the Gold Standard as a Disciplinary Device pp. 39-59

Klas Fregert

George Pryme, Dugald Stewart, and Political Economy at Cambridge pp. 61-97

Shin Kubo

Tax Prices in a Democratic Polity: The Continuing Relevance of Antonio de Viti de Marco pp. 99-121

Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner

The Double Taxation of Savings: The Italian Debate Revisited pp. 123-148

Amedeo Fossati

The Classical Notion of Competition Revisited pp. 149-175

Neri Salvadori and Rodolfo Signorino