Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Amelung, Iwo / Schefold, Bertram (eds.), European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 344 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-562>
ISBN 978-0-367-43448-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-210399-0 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The Western literature on the history of Chinese economic thought is sparse, and comparisons with the history of Western economic thought even more so. This pioneering book brings together Western and Chinese scholars to reflect on the historical evolution of economic thought in Europe and China. The international panel of contributors cover key topics such as currency, usury, land tenure, the granary system, welfare, and government, and special attention is given to monetary institutions and policies. The problem of "good government" emerges as the unifying thread of a complex analysis that includes both theoretical issues and applied economics. Chinese lines of evolution include the problem of the agency of the State, its ideological justification, the financing of public expenditure, the role played by the public administration, and the provision of credit. The early radical condemnation of usury in the Near East and in the West gives way to theoretical justifications of interest-taking in early capitalist Europe; they, in turn, lead to advances in mathematics and business administration and represent one of the origins of modern economic theory. Other uniting themes include the relationship between metallic and paper money in Chinese and European experiences and the cross-fertilization of economic practices and ideas in the course of their pluri-millennial interactions. Differences emerge; the approach to the organization of economic life was, and still is, more State-centred in China. The editors bring together these analytical threads in a final chapter, opening wider horizons for this new line of comparative economic research which is important for the understanding of modern ideological turns.This volume provides valuable reading for scholars in the history of economic thought, economic history and Chinese studies.

Biro, Gabor (ed.), Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 232 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-563>
ISBN 978-0-367-68695-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-68697-0 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that is, aspects related to sensitive, cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Marshall, Keynes, Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover, the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, economic philosophy, heterodox economics, moral philosophy and intellectual history.

Carabelli, Anna M., Keynes on Uncertainty and Tragic Happiness: Complexity and Expectations. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought) 182 pp. 2021:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-564>
ISBN 978-3-030-75664-2 hard ¥17,013.- (税込) EUR 69.99 *

Most economists who read the General Theory candidly admitted that they could not understand the theoretical apparatus and found it easy to recast it in traditional terms. This book provides a masterful guide to the generally unrecognized methodological revolution that supported the new theoretical concepts -- a veritable lodestone that complements and expands understanding on the treatment of the economic magnitudes appropriate to the ideal of generality in the social sciences, to the applicability of probability, to the formulation of decision-making under uncertainty, and the foundations of economic policy in interdependent economic systems. _Jan Kregel, Levy Economics InstituteAnna Carabelli sets out Keynes's understanding of economics as a way of thinking, encompassing method and morals, rather than as a doctrine. She does so with her customary admirable scholarship and also her willingness to take controversial positions. I commend the volume most highly to Keynes scholars as a drawing-together and development of the themes that Carabelli has pursued since the publication of her 1988 classic, On Keynes's Method. Further Keynes's approach was designed to be applied to different contexts, so I enthusiastically recommend the volume also as a foundation and guide for anyone open to such a 'new way of reasoning in economics' for the modern era. _Sheila Dow, University of Stirling This book examines the philosophy and methodology of Keynes, highlighting its novelty and how it presented a new form of economic reasoning. Exploring Keynes's use of non-demonstrative logic, based onprobability, commonalities are found in his economics, ethics, aesthetics, and international relations. Insights are provided into his reasoning and his approach to uncertainty, rationality, measurability of complex magnitudes, moral and rational dilemmas, and irreducible conflicts.This book investigates methodological continuity within Keynes's work, in particular in relation to uncertainty, complexity, incommensurability, happiness and openness. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in Keynes, probability, ambiguity, ethics and the history of economic thought.

D.リカードウ－知的伝記
Cremaschi, Sergio, David Ricardo: An Intellectual Biography. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 224 pp. 2022 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-565>
ISBN 978-0-367-75345-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-75347-4 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

David Ricardo has been acclaimed - or vilified - for merits he would never have dreamt of, or sins for which he was entirely innocent. Entrenched mythology labels him as a utilitarian economist, an enemy of the working class, an impractical theorist, a scientist with 'no philosophy at all' and the author of a formalist methodological revolution. Exploring a middle ground between theory and biography, this book explores the formative intellectual encounters of a man who came to economic studies via other experiences, thus bridging the gap between the historical Ricardo and the economist's Ricardo.The chapters undertake a thorough analysis of Ricardo's writings in their context, asking who was speaking, what audience was being addressed, with what communicative intentions, using what kind of lexicon and communicative conventions, and starting with what shared knowledge. The work opens in presenting the different religious communities with which Ricardo was in touch. It goes on to describe his education in the leading science of the time - geology - before he turned to the study of political economy. Another chapter discusses five 'philosophers' - students of logic, ethics and politics - with whom he was in touch. From correspondence, manuscripts and publications, the closing chapters reconstruct, firstly, Ricardo's ideas on scientific method, the limits of the 'abstract science' and its application, and, secondly, his ideas on ethics and politics and their impact on strategies for improving the condition of the working class. This book sheds new light on Ricardian economics, providing an invaluable service to readers of economic methodology, philosophy of economics, the history of economic thought, political thought and philosophy.

Fiorito, Luca / Scheall, Scott et al. (eds.), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit at 100. (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 39, Part C) 204 pp. 2021:12 (Emerald, UK) <664-566>
ISBN 978-1-80071-149-5 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. The symposium features contributions from Per Bylund, Richard E. Wagner, our own Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and his co-author, Thiago Oliveira, as well as an essay from guest editor Ross B. Emmett. The Volume also includes general-research essays from David C. Coker, J. Patrick Higgins, and Charles R. McCann, Jr.

Fevre, Raphael, A Political Economy of Power: Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932-1950. (Oxford Studies in History of Economics) 280 pp. 2021:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-567>
ISBN 978-0-19-760780-0 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

The first English analysis of German ordoliberalism from the perspective of both intellectual history and history of economic thought In comparison with Keynesianism, monetarism, or other economic paradigms of the twentieth century, ordoliberalism has been generally neglected. However, after first emerging in Germany during interwar years, ordoliberalism is now at the center of the ongoing debates about the foundations, the present governance, and the future prospects of the European Union. In A Political Economy of Power, Raphael Fevre retraces the intellectual history of ordoliberalism, focusing on the works of its main representatives Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Roepke, together with the contributions of Franz Boehm, Alexander Ruestow, Leonhard Miksch, and Friedrich Lutz. Fevre provides a clear and comprehensive definition of ordoliberalism, describes in detail its principles, and explains how ordoliberalism came to heavily influence German post-war reconstruction despite its emergence during the Nazi period. He also investigates the reasons for its success in West Germany in the immediate aftermath of the war, and its lasting influence through a partial transformation to a contemporary form of neoliberal orthodoxy. A Political Economy of Power provides a contextualized and interdisciplinary study of ordoliberalism-one of the most influential intellectual projects of the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

Schulz-Nieswandt, Frank, Gemeinwirtschaft. Grundriss einer Morphologie der dualen Wirtschaft: In memoriam Theo Thiemeyer (1929-1991). (Schriften zum Genossenschaftswesen und zur Oeffentlichen Wirtschaft 46) 128 S. 2021:6 (Duncker, GW) <664-568>
ISBN 978-3-428-18104-9 paper ¥14,560.- (税込) EUR 59.90 *

Die interdisziplinaere Abhandlung behandelt ? in Erinnerung an Theo Thiemeyer (1929?1991) ? die kulturtransformative Idee einer Gemeinwirtschaftslehre jenseits der etablierten, aber immer wieder prekaeren traegerpluralistischen Einfuegung in den vom ≫kapitalistischen Geist≪ dominierten Marktwettbewerb des europarechtlich kompatiblen bundesdeutschen Verstaendnisses sozialer Marktwirtschaft. Aufbauend auf einer Grundlegung einer wirtschaftsmorphologischen Theorie wird die Struktur einer dualen Wirtschaftsordnung (Privatwirtschaft versus Gemeinwirtschaft) in die Wahrheitsspiele der Dispositivordnung gebracht, um der heterotopen Gemeinwirtschaft eine produktive Entfaltung zu ermoeglichen. Insbesondere der Fokus auf die Genossenschaftsidee fundiert zugleich eine Metaphysik des Personalismus als verfassungskonforme anthropologische und ethische Fundierung der Gemeinwirtschaftsidee aus der Sicht Kritischer Theorie und einer sozialeschatologischen Geschichtsphilosophie des Noch-Nicht als endogene Dynamik der Jetzt-Zeit.

J.トポロウスキー著　マルクスからミンスキーまでの信用と危機
Toporowski, Jan, Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky. 192 pp. 2020:9 (E. Elgar, UK) * paper 2021:10 <664-569>
ISBN 978-1-78897-214-7 hard ¥23,920.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80220-507-7 paper ¥7,189.- (税込) GB￡ 24.95 *

This timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008. Focusing on the work of economists from Marx onwards, Jan Toporowski moves beyond conventional monetary theory to offer an insightful critical alternative to current financial macroeconomics. The book features an extended discussion of Marx's approach to credit and finance, new insights to Minsky's ideas and a reconsideration of the financial theories of Kalecki and Steindl. Economic researchers and postgraduate students seeking to extend their knowledge of critical approaches to finance will find this an invaluable read, as well as practitioners and policy makers who seek to understand financial instability and unstable markets. This will also be an insightful read for economic historians looking to understand the nuances of different key economic theories and their practical applications. This timely book studies the economic theories of credit cycles and disturbances in the 20th century, presenting a nuanced view of the role of finance in the economy after the financial crash of 2008.

J.トポロウスキー著　M.カレツキの貨幣経済学
Toporowski, Jan, Interest and Capital: The Monetary Economics of Michal Kalecki. 208 pp. 2022:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <664-570>
ISBN 978-0-19-881623-2 hard ¥20,462.- (税込) GB￡ 71.00 *

Interest and Capital brings together Michal Kalecki's published fragments on monetary theory and policy to explore his distinctive approach to money and its circulation in the capitalist economy. Toporowski lays out Kalecki's critique of the international monetary arrangements proposed by Keynes and White at Bretton Woods, casting new light on the international monetary imbalances that have since disrupted the international economy. The greater importance of debt management revealed in Kalecki's monetary analysis makes it particularly relevant to the policy dilemmas of developing countries and governments facing high levels of debt in the wake of recent global crises. In Kalecki's theoretical approach, money has both an industrial and a financial circulation. Corporate finance takes its place at the centre of monetary considerations because it is the money of capitalists that is the autonomous determinant of expenditure in the economy. This theory has important implications for the rate of interest, which is not related to the rate of profit, nor to the kind of portfolio adjustments necessary to maintain portfolio equilibrium, but to the kind of financing that may prevail in any given phase of the business cycle.