Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1017/s1053837222000785
M. Bankovsky
{"title":"Ann Mari May, Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), pp. 256, $32 (paperback). ISBN: 9780231192910.","authors":"M. Bankovsky","doi":"10.1017/s1053837222000785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837222000785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42306718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1017/s1053837223000020
Henri-Pierre Mottironi
{"title":"Emily Erikson, Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021), pp. 312, $35 (paperback). ISBN: 9780231184359.","authors":"Henri-Pierre Mottironi","doi":"10.1017/s1053837223000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837223000020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47155374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1017/s1053837222000736
Ricardo F. Crespo
In 1970 Herbert Simon was invited by the Sociedad Argentina de Organización Industrial to deliver lectures on “Business Management in the Technological Era.” He asked for an audience with Jorge Luis Borges, the director of the Argentine National Library. Simon had read Borges’s stories and was particularly fascinated by “La Biblioteca de Babel” (The library of Babel), wherein he discovered that Borges, like him, conceived of life as a search through a labyrinth. The Spanish translation of the interview was published in Primera Plana, an Argentine journal. The brief interview sheds light on some of Simon’s ideas about determinism and free will. His critique on maximizing rationality and his suggested approach to decision making have contributed to enlarge the concept of rationality as construed by standard economic theory. Consequently, it may be argued that Simon is incorporating free will in economics. However, though Simon’s position implies an advancement for the role of free will, the whole context of his ideas conditioned it, thus resulting in a “weak” notion of it. During the course of his conversation with Borges, Simon clarified his personal stance, which is consistent with his ideas. The paper will reveal Borges´s and Simon’s understanding of free will. This paper also contains part of the conversation between Simon and Borges that has not been published previously in English. Introducing it in its entirety is a contribution to the knowledge on Borges’s and Simon’s thought.
1970年，赫伯特·西蒙受阿根廷社会Organización工业协会邀请，发表题为“技术时代的企业管理”的演讲。他要求会见阿根廷国家图书馆馆长豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)。西蒙读过博尔赫斯的小说，特别着迷于《巴别塔图书馆》(La Biblioteca de Babel)，在这本书中，他发现博尔赫斯和他一样，把生活想象成在迷宫中寻找。采访的西班牙语译文发表在阿根廷杂志《Primera Plana》上。这个简短的采访揭示了西蒙关于决定论和自由意志的一些观点。他对理性最大化的批判和他提出的决策方法有助于扩大标准经济理论所解释的理性概念。因此，有人可能会说，西蒙正在把自由意志纳入经济学。然而，尽管西蒙的立场暗示了自由意志作用的进步，但他的思想的整个背景制约了它，从而导致了它的“薄弱”概念。在与博尔赫斯的对话中，西蒙明确了自己的个人立场，这与他的思想是一致的。本文将揭示博尔赫斯和西蒙对自由意志的理解。这篇论文还包含了西蒙和博尔赫斯之间的部分对话，这些对话以前没有以英语发表过。完整地介绍博尔赫斯和西蒙的思想是对博尔赫斯和西蒙思想认识的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1017/s1053837222000797
L. Fiorito, Valentina Erasmo
Franklin H. Giddings can be considered one of the founding fathers of sociology in the United States. With many of his contemporaries, Giddings shared a firm commitment to eugenics, scientific racism, and race-conscious imperialism—a biologically rooted impetus that recent literature has placed at the core of the Progressive Era reform agenda, and which was particularly strong among the most sociologically inclined figures of the period. The aim of this article is to present a discussion of Giddings’s views on race, immigration, eugenics, and American imperialism, and how these views evolved over time. What follows adds to our general understanding of the extent to which racial and eugenic considerations permeated American social thought during the first decades of the last century and how, in the specific case of Giddings, this influence found expression in an inherently ambiguous and often contradictory fashion.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1017/s1053837223000147
Hansjoerg Klausinger
{"title":"Raphaël Fèvre, A Political Economy of Power: Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932–1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. 280, $64 (hardcover). ISBN:9780197607800.","authors":"Hansjoerg Klausinger","doi":"10.1017/s1053837223000147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837223000147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48024194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1017/s1053837223000159
T. Aspromourgos
{"title":"Andreas Ortmann and Benoît Walraevens, Adam Smith’s System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired by Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric, Game Theory, and Conjectural History (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. xv + 254, $109 (hardcover). ISBN: 9783030997038.","authors":"T. Aspromourgos","doi":"10.1017/s1053837223000159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837223000159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43781124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1017/s105383722300010x
K. Tribe
{"title":"Benjamin M. Friedman, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (New York: Vintage, 2022), pp. 560, $20 (paperback). ISBN: 9780593311097.","authors":"K. Tribe","doi":"10.1017/s105383722300010x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s105383722300010x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44699190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1017/S105383722200058X
Jérôme Lange
“Since such, therefore, are the advantages of water-carriage, it is natural that the first improvements of art and industry should be made where this conveniency opens the whole world for a market to the produce of every sort of labour, and that they should always be much later in extending themselves into the inland parts of the country. … All the inland parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the antient Scythia, the modern Tartary and Siberia, seem in all ages of the world to have been in the same barbarous and uncivilized state in which we find them at present. … There are in Africa none of those great inlets, such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the gulphs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into the interior parts of that great continent: and the great rivers of Africa are at too great a distance from one another to give occasion to any considerable inland navigation.” WN I.iii.4–8
{"title":"SMITH AT 300: UNIVERSAL HUMAN NATURE, THE DIVISION OF LABOR, AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT","authors":"Jérôme Lange","doi":"10.1017/S105383722200058X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S105383722200058X","url":null,"abstract":"“Since such, therefore, are the advantages of water-carriage, it is natural that the first improvements of art and industry should be made where this conveniency opens the whole world for a market to the produce of every sort of labour, and that they should always be much later in extending themselves into the inland parts of the country. … All the inland parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the antient Scythia, the modern Tartary and Siberia, seem in all ages of the world to have been in the same barbarous and uncivilized state in which we find them at present. … There are in Africa none of those great inlets, such as the Baltic and Adriatic seas in Europe, the Mediterranean and Euxine seas in both Europe and Asia, and the gulphs of Arabia, Persia, India, Bengal, and Siam, in Asia, to carry maritime commerce into the interior parts of that great continent: and the great rivers of Africa are at too great a distance from one another to give occasion to any considerable inland navigation.” WN I.iii.4–8","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":"45 1","pages":"220 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1017/S1053837221000547
Pablo Cervera-Ferri, Pau Insa-Sánchez
Historians of economic thought have carried out detailed studies of classical and marginalist approaches to value based on production cost and utility, respectively, not to mention about the fusion of both interpretations by the neoclassical school. This is not the case with rareness value, a theory commonly attributed to Léon Walras, although Aristotle surely had rareness in mind when he first attempted to explain chrematistics. This article focuses on how our understanding of rareness has evolved from the earliest economic formulations to those of Auguste and Léon Walras, contesting Murray Rothbard’s thesis that there is only one way in which the transmission of the utility theory of value can be tracked from scholasticism to the Austrian school. On the contrary, the concept of rareness continued to figure in some theories of value of the French Enlightenment, especially those that emerged within Calvinist circles, and was recovered in times of reaction against the dominant classicism.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1017/s1053837222000633
M. Mosca
{"title":"Antonio Magliulo, A History of European Economic Thought (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 206, $128 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032037677.","authors":"M. Mosca","doi":"10.1017/s1053837222000633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1053837222000633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45456,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Economic Thought","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42560228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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