Pub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2024.2362008
Paul Oslington
: This paper explores reception history as a framework for historians of economics in the light of the impasse between contextual and traditional historiography. It focuses on the particular reception history approach of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss, which is grounded in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Jauss’ reception approach is outlined then compared to the contextual historiography of Quentin Skinner, and Donald Winch, as well as to traditional historiography of economics exemplified by Joseph Schumpeter, George Stigler, Paul Samuelson and Mark Blaug. I argue that Jauss’ reception history framework encompasses the contextual and traditional approaches, picking up the attention to original readers that is the strength of the contextual approach, while also validating attention to contemporary economist readers. It provides tools for more self-consciousness attention to the multiple contexts involved in the study of past economic texts. It thus offers a way forward in the historiographical impasse facing contemporary historians of economics.
:鉴于语境史学与传统史学之间的僵局，本文探讨了作为经济史学家框架的接受史。论文重点探讨了德国文学评论家汉斯-罗伯特-尧斯（Hans Robert Jauss）以汉斯-格奥尔格-伽达默尔（Hans-Georg Gadamer）的哲学诠释学为基础的特殊接受史方法。首先概述了尧斯的接受史方法，然后将其与昆廷-斯金纳和唐纳德-温奇的语境史学以及约瑟夫-熊彼特、乔治-斯蒂格勒、保罗-萨缪尔森和马克-布劳格的传统经济史学进行比较。我认为，乔斯的接受史框架涵盖了语境方法和传统方法，拾起了语境方法的优势--对原始读者的关注，同时也验证了对当代经济学家读者的关注。它为更自觉地关注过去经济学文本研究中涉及的多重语境提供了工具。因此，它为当代经济史学家所面临的史学僵局提供了一条出路。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2024.2355799
Wilfried Parys
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Pub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2024.2334606
S. Cornish
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2024.2302226
John King
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Pub Date : 2024-01-21DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2289254
Alain Marciano
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2270339
John King
"Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas." History of Economics Review, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–3
《冷战中的经济学家:少数经济学家如何进行思想之战》《经济学评论的历史》，印前(印前)，第1-3页
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Pub Date : 2023-10-18DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2261741
Bruce Littleboy
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 An exception is when bravely trying succinctly to explain Hayek’s macroeconomic theory of the business cycle, viewed through the lens of capital theory and intertemporal equilibrium, and with its mysterious tangle of not only the distortions in the structure of capital, but also the importance of ‘forced saving’ and the rolling effects claimed to result from money creation. Kahn’s pointed question (282–3) about whether buying an overcoat would, as Hayek reasoned, worsen the 1931 slump was highly to the point. However, it’s not fully clear whether it was posed in the theoretical context of the upper turning point of an unsustainable boom or instead during the deflationary overshooting of the contraction phase, ‘the secondary contraction’. If the former, Hayek might make some sense, but not in the latter. Rejecting an indiscriminate use of Keynesian stimulus suggests that discriminating use is potentially acceptable (267).2 Titbits include the possibility raised by Crauford Goodwin that Keynes’s economics came to America before 1936 via Walter Lippman (452). Mythbusting: 277–8, on how Robbins supposedly invited Hayek to the LSE ‘to serve as a counterweight to Keynes’; 284–5, on Hayek predicting the Great Depression; 495–6, on how Keynes and Hayek stood together as air raid wardens on the roof of King’s College.3 Indeed, Richard W. Staveley, who taught at the University of Queensland and influenced several of its graduates in the latter decades of the last century, regarded Keynes’s allusions to business and political practicalities as evidence of a firm Aristotelian grounding for Keynes’s economics, politics, and philosophy.4 Keynes’s sympathetic, though qualified, assessment (531) of Hayek’s 1944 The Road to Serfdom invites the firm inclusion of Keynes (of 1945) in the progressive liberal camp (455), especially given his defence of free trade when an effective global financial architecture had been devised. Indeed, I wonder whether Hayek might have invited Keynes to Mt Pelerin had Keynes lived.
一个例外是当勇敢地试图简洁地解释哈耶克的商业周期宏观经济理论时，通过资本理论和跨期均衡的视角，以及它的神秘纠结，不仅是资本结构的扭曲，还有“强制储蓄”的重要性，以及声称由货币创造产生的滚动效应。卡恩尖锐的问题(282-3)是关于购买一件大衣是否会像哈耶克所推断的那样，使1931年的经济衰退恶化，这个问题非常切中要害。然而，尚不完全清楚它是在不可持续繁荣的上转折点的理论背景下提出的，还是在收缩阶段的通缩超调期间提出的，即“二次收缩”。如果是前者，哈耶克可能说得通，但在后一种情况下就行不通了。拒绝不加区分地使用凯恩斯主义刺激表明，有区别地使用可能是可以接受的(267)克劳福德·古德温(crawford Goodwin)提出的一种可能性是，凯恩斯的经济学在1936年之前通过沃尔特·李普曼(Walter Lippman)传入美国。流言粉碎:277-8，关于罗宾斯如何邀请哈耶克到伦敦经济学院“作为对凯恩斯的制衡”;285 - 5，关于哈耶克对大萧条的预测;的确，理查德·w·斯塔维利(Richard W. Staveley)——他在昆士兰大学任教，并在上世纪后几十年影响了该校的几位毕业生——认为凯恩斯对商业和政治实用性的暗示，证明了凯恩斯的经济学、政治学和哲学有坚实的亚里士多德基础凯恩斯对哈耶克1944年的《通往奴役之路》(The Road to servfdom)的评价(531)虽有保留，但却令人同情，这使得凯恩斯(1945年)被坚定地纳入了进步自由主义阵营(455)，尤其是考虑到他在有效的全球金融架构设计出来时捍卫了自由贸易。事实上，我想知道，如果凯恩斯还活着，哈耶克是否会邀请凯恩斯去拜林山。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2242667
Riko Stevens
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank Michael McLure and Harry Bloch for their helpful comments on this thesis summary. I also acknowledge this thesis research was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRiko StevensRiko Stevens is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus). He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and the Treasurer of the WA Branch of the Economic Society of Australia.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2251285
Selwyn Cornish, Alex Millmow, John Hawkins
AbstractThis conversation was held with Selwyn Cornish in mid-2023 in Canberra. It covers some of the many contributions Selwyn has made, and is continuing to make, to both the history of economic thought and Australian academic life in his long career at the Australian National University. It also covers his interest in the lives of practical economists and the history of the Reserve Bank.Keywords: CornishAustralian economicsAustralian National UniversityKeynesMelville Disclosure statementNo potential conflicts of interest or funding were reported by the authors.Notes1 A distance of over 300 kilometres.2 Malcolm Treadgold is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of New England. He has had three articles published in History of Economics Review.3 Bruce Bennet became professor of English at ADFA. His publications included the Oxford Literary History of Australia.4 Cited by Coleman (Citation2015, 11).5 Merab Harris’s career is discussed in Millmow (Citation2022).6 Ray Byron did a PhD at the London School of Economics and became an econometrician at ANU.7 Frank Harman went on to specialise in energy economics and taught at Murdoch University.8 Professor Tucker’s career is summarised in Harper (Citation2002).9 Professor Butlin’s career is summarised in Cornish (Citation2004b) and Shapley (Citation2021).10 Selwyn’s obituary of Arndt is given in Cornish (Citation2002a) and a biography in Coleman, Cornish, and Drake (Citation2007). They co-wrote Cornish and Arndt (Citation2001).11 Swan’s time in India is described in Cornish and Jha (Citation2017).12 More of Selwyn’s reflections on Geoff Harcourt can be found in Cornish and Hawkins (Citation2022a, Citation2022b).13 Selwyn reviewed two of the Skidelsky volumes in Cornish (Citation1994, Citation2002c). He also reviewed a number of other books about Keynes and Keynesianism. Selwyn wrote his own biographical essay on Keynes; Cornish (Citation2004a).14 He later wrote a short biography of Keynes; Clarke (Citation2009).15 Her keynote address on Meade to the 2022 HETSA conference was published as Howson (Citation2023).16 Caldwell and Klausinger (Citation2022), reviewed by Endres (Citation2023). and Cornish (Citationforthcoming).17 White and Keynes fought for their different visions of the post-war international financial architecture at Bretton Woods. See also Broughton (Citation2021), reviewed in Cornish (Citation2023).18 Selwyn’s papers on Melville include Cornish (Citation1993, Citation1999, Citation2002b, Citation2008, Citation2014, Citation2021).19 The two papers are Cornish (Citation1978, Citation1981). The latest Australian employment White Paper is discussed in Cornish and Hawkins (Citation2023).20 The book was awarded the Bruce McComish Prize by the Australian Economic and Business History Society in 2007.21 Cornish and Jha (Citation2017) was awarded the Peter Groenewegen Prize in 2019 for best article published in History of Economics Review.22 Cornish (Citation1978, Citation1981).23 Co
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2023.2249657
Lisa Hill
AbstractAdam Smith wanted to understand how commercialising states ought now to be governed and how their success should be measured. In his efforts to modernise the art of governing—and thereby bring the modern science of political economy into existence—Smith re-defined the concept of national welfare and the whole idea of a successful state. These new conceptions are reflected in his rejection of state-directed morality and his solutions to such important problems as the alleviation of poverty, food insecurity, inequality and declining levels of education. These were all cases that tested the limits of his faith in markets and, in the process, he reveals that he was less libertarian and more utilitarian than is commonly allowed. Whenever the system of natural liberty failed to achieve the desired effect, he sought an engineered solution. Nevertheless, Smith was still broadly committed to liberty, the free market and commercial society.Keywords: Adam Smithwelfarenatural libertyutilityvirtue Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Although Smith expects that the salaries of ‘masters’ will be subsidised by payments on the part of parents, the building, administration and maintenance of the schools will be publicly funded, as will prizes for students who ‘excel’ (WN. V.i.f. 53-56, 786).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLisa HillLisa Hill is Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide. She works on the intellectual history of the Western political tradition and has written extensively on two figures of the Scottish Enlightenment: Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson. She is also an expert on classical Stoicism and its impact on the Western political tradition. Her other research interests are in democratic theory and electoral studies. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia, Program Director at the Stretton Institute for Public Policy, and Research Chair of the Centre for Public Integrity, an anti-corruption watch-dog.
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