Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620941
L. Charles, C. Théré
This article presents a detailed chronology of the creation of L'Ami des hommes and the very special role played by Richard Cantillon's Essai sur la nature du commerce en général in this process. It shows that Mirabeau obtained the manuscript of the French translation of the Essai made by Cantillon himself through a marquis de Saint-George. We provide a biography of this obscure character and discuss his relationship with both Cantillon and the Marquis de Mirabeau. Then, we study how Mirabeau used Cantillon's text as a source of inspiration for four projects developed in different contexts. We show that, from 1740 to 1757, his relationship to Cantillon's text changed. His first two tries merely abstracted and rewrote the original text of the Essai to adapt it to a general readership. In the early 1750s, motivated by his discussions with his younger brother, the Chevalier de Mirabeau, on political economy, the marquis developed a more ambitious plan. He decided to provide an annotated edition of Cantillon's Essai. By 1756, Mirabeau realized that his ideas and interests had become so much different from those of Cantillon that it was best to reconceive his project as a stand-alone and completely original text, the one he finally published as L'Ami des hommes in 1757.
本文详细介绍了《人类之爱》的创作年表，以及理查德·坎蒂隆的《Essai sur la nature du commerce en gacemen》在这一过程中所起的特殊作用。它表明，米拉波通过圣乔治侯爵获得了坎替永自己翻译的《Essai》的法文手稿。我们提供了这个默默无闻的人物的传记，并讨论了他与坎替隆和米拉波侯爵的关系。然后，我们研究了米拉波如何将坎蒂永的文本作为在不同背景下发展的四个项目的灵感来源。我们表明，从1740年到1757年，他与坎替永的文本的关系发生了变化。他的前两次尝试只是对《随笔》的原文进行了抽象和改写，以使其适合普通读者。18世纪50年代早期，在与弟弟米拉波骑士(Chevalier de Mirabeau)讨论政治经济学的激励下，这位侯爵制定了一个更雄心勃勃的计划。他决定提供一本加注解的坎蒂永的《随笔》。到1756年，米拉波意识到，他的思想和兴趣已经与坎蒂永大不相同，最好将他的作品重新构思为一个独立的、完全原创的文本，他最终在1757年出版了《我是人类》。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620955
There were a number of economists in early modern Germany who, as their works indicate, faced regular criticism and personal attacks. Again and again, they had to defend and legitimize their work. Such apologetic formulas appear for the first time in the work of the Saxon councilor and writer Melchior von Osse (1506–57). This was no coincidence. Starting from the large and dynamic mining districts of the region, a new variant of economic thinking emerged at the end of the fifteenth century, characterized in particular by the fact that it extended the princely household over the entire territory. Ideas of this kind violated centuries-old scholarly traditions. This concerned both the question of occupations suitable for people of high status as well as the scope of what could legitimately be called a household or economy. The reason for this break with convention was the increasingly capitalist organization of mining, which fostered new forms of spatial imagination and governmental practice. However, irrespective of how important the idea of a territorial economy would become, it also placed a burden on economic scholars who were involved in its early dissemination. The legacy of disrupting the medieval politico-economic order will accompany them for centuries to come.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620997
A. Dupont-Kieffer
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620983
N. Aslanbeigui, G. Oakes
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620913
David B. Skarbek, Emily C. Skarbek
Analytic narratives combine rational choice theory—often extensive-form, game-theoretic models—and qualitative evidence to understand historical and institutional questions in political economy. This article begins by characterizing the features of analytic narratives that distinguish this method from others in economics and political science. Analytic narratives gained prominence in the 1990s as the result of several factors, including the development of game theory, a turn away from general equilibrium theorizing, and the increasing interest in institutions and economic history. Based on the initial responses and subsequent methodological debates, four criticisms of analytic narratives are discussed: those based on claims to originality, the value of rational choice theory, case studies and external validity, and the merits of qualitative evidence. As the article argues, differing disciplinary approaches and perspectives generated many of these criticisms. Nevertheless, from a methodological perspective, analytic narratives remain an effective and distinctive method for analyzing the political economy of institutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620969
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Chilean free banking system worked similarly to how Adam Smith describes the eighteenth-century free banking system in Scotland. The characteristics of free banking that Smith identifies as conductive of successful outcomes—free entry, unlimited liability, and convertibility on demand—are present in both Scotland and Chile. And the Chilean system failed for similar reasons to the worries Smith had about the Scottish system: inconvertibility, legal tender, involvement with government borrowing, and lobbying. The Chilean experience of free banking appears to follow Smith's account of free banking.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10620927
This article reconstructs the intellectual cross-fertilization between Adolf Berle Jr. (1895–1971) and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) to account for their institutionalist challenge to “conventional economics” that revived political economy. It goes back to the origins of The Modern Corporation and Private Property before analyzing Berle and Galbraith's answers to a set of fundamental questions. What is the nature of modern competition? What is the nature of the modern corporation? What is the role of the state? And how should American liberalism be reinvented to cope with the social issues raised by the transformation of American capitalism in the postwar era? Their answers to these questions reveal the deep affinities between the theoretical and political dimensions of their work. This research contributes, then, to the history of the institutionalist movement in the postwar period and its affinities with qualitative liberalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10621040
{"title":"The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science","authors":"","doi":"10.1215/00182702-10621040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10621040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47043,"journal":{"name":"History of Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48027165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10621012
Roger J. Sandilands
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1215/00182702-10438911
Ibanca Anand
This article explores the peculiar approach to narrative argumentation taken by the MIT economist Evsey Domar (1914–97). Combining biography and textual analysis of his academic work reveals that Cold War themes permeated Domar's later research in comparative economic systems, Soviet economics, and economic history—and yet, Domar employed these themes in ways that challenge traditional understandings of postwar American social science. Against the heady partisanship and epistemic self-confidence that characterized his milieu, Domar offered conclusions that emphasized ambiguity, complexity, and open-endedness. He achieved this, the article argues, by thinking not only comparatively, but also historically and speculatively. This article takes a journey through a number of Domar's historical and speculative narratives to demonstrate that what Domar was ultimately doing in many of his works was resisting normative, literary, and scientific closure.
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