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

山田鋭夫著　内田義彦における市民社会と社会科学
Yamada, Toshio, Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida. 117 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <677-15>
ISBN 978-981-19-1137-8 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book introduces the work of Yoshihiko Uchida (1913-1989), one of the most prominent Japanese thinkers on the topic of civil society in the post-World War II era. The distinctive features of Uchida's approach to civil society are his view of the metabolic relationship between human beings and nature and his call for a social science rooted in the experiences and inquiries of ordinary citizens. This original approach did not develop in a straight line from Uchida's early work to his mature period, and this book follows the twists and turns in its formation through his reflections on the relationships between "the civil" and "the capitalistic," "the modern" and "the pre-modern," "the historical" and "the trans-historical," and "science by specialists" and "inquiry by laypeople." As a historian of economic thought, Uchida pursued these topical themes by examining figures such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Hajime Kawakami, a prominent thinker in Japan. By casting a light on these inquiries, this book offers the first depiction of Uchida's body of work as a whole and in doing so illuminates the emergence of original democratic thought in post-war Japan.

大恐慌から大不況までのマクロ経済学における論争
Arnon, Arie, Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession: Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses. (Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought) 318 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) * paper 2022 <677-195>
ISBN 978-3-030-97702-3 hard ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *
ISBN 978-3-030-97705-4 paper ¥24,306.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward the end of the millennium. The book covers the early influential work of Knut Wicksell; the economic debates of the 1930s, with core contributions from John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek; the rise of Keynesianism in the 1950s and its decline since the 1970s; the rise of Monetarism in the 1960s; and NCM's subsequent rise to prominence. Finally, the book outlines how macroeconomics has evolved from its birth in the 1930s as a theory separate from microeconomics, resulting in a split between macro- and micro-theories, and ended up with a new hegemonic paradigm based on microfoundations. The ensuing policy thinking witnessed a transformation from "active" macro-policy after the Great Depression to a far more "passive" macro-policy during the last quarter of the twentieth century, which may have contributed to missing the signs of the impending Long Recession of 2008."When the 2008 crisis struck, macroeconomists were caught with models that were theoretically elegant yet inappropriate to the needs of the moment. A broader historical perspective may have prevented the jettisoning of Keynesian models that had proved useful in the past and might have done so again. This highly readable book by Arie Arnon is a wonderful antidote to economists' short time horizon and contributes mightily to restore the profession's "collective memory" of the diversity of ideas within macroeconomics."Professor Dani Rodrik, Harvard Kennedy School

オーストリア学派経済学現代案内
Bylund, Per L. (ed.), A Modern Guide to Austrian Economics. (Elgar Modern Guides) 368 pp. 2022:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <677-196>
ISBN 978-1-78990-439-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This Modern Guide explores central ideas, concepts, and themes in the Austrian school of economics, with a focus on how both the school and the overall theory have evolved over recent decades. Leading scholars offer their insights into potential directions of future research in the field, pointing towards contemporary debates and their potential conclusions, underdeveloped aspects and extensions of theory, and current applications of interest.Spanning theories of entrepreneurship to the theory of the business cycle, from methodology to sociology, and from cryptocurrencies to culture, this clear and concise Modern Guide provides an expert curation of the topic. Chapters offer an overview of the present state of scholarship in the field, including discussions on praxeology, the function of entrepreneurship in the market process, spontaneous orders, the Austrian theory of money, and banking.Written in an accessible style, this will be an invigorating read for economics scholars looking for an alternative to mainstream approaches. It will also be useful for scholars and practitioners seeking an introduction to Austrian economics.

Daermann, Iris / Winterling, Aloys (Hrsg.), Oikonomia und Oekonomie im klassischen Griechenland: Theorie - Praxis - Transformation. 226 S. 2022:2 (F. Steiner, GW) <677-197>
ISBN 978-3-515-12745-5 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) EUR 60.00 *

Die antike griechische Wirtschaftstheorie unterschied ? klassisch bei Aristoteles　? die Haushaltung (oikonomia) von einem als naturwidrig angesehenen, grenzenlosen Streben nach Geldgewinn (chrematistike). Die Praxis des zeitgenoessischen wirtschaftlichen Handelns war dagegen von polisuebergreifenden geldwirtschaftlichen Beziehungen und komplex vernetzten Haushalten gepraegt. Die Autoren suchen nach den Gruenden der Differenz beider Sachverhalte und fragen am Beispiel spaetmittelalterlicher und fruehmoderner Texte nach der Wirkung und Transformation der antiken Theorie in der nachantiken europaeischen Geschichte. Die Ergebnisse geben Anlass zum Ueberdenken der Bedeutung antiker oikonomia fuer eine Analyse der modernen Wirtschaft, aber auch zur methodischen Selbstreflexion moderner Konzeptualisierungen antiker ?Oekonomie".

Vale, Adriano do, L'independance des banques centrales a l'aune de l'histoire de la pensee et des pratiques. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste 38) 378 p. 2022:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <677-198>
ISBN 978-2-406-12190-9 hard ¥17,989.- (税込) EUR 74.00
ISBN 978-2-406-12189-3 paper ¥8,508.- (税込) EUR 35.00 *

古典派のリベラルな政治経済学を取り戻す
Ward, Lee, Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests. (Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History) 264 pp. 2022:3 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <677-199>
ISBN 978-1-399-50059-3 hard ¥25,938.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book re-examines the philosophical roots of classical liberal political economy and its relationship to the problem of empire and the emancipation of women. It proposes an interpretive model based upon the interconnection between distinct theories of natural rights and the harmony of interests. It takes a fresh look at classical liberalism by exploring economic arguments in thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Paine, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon and by highlighting the importance of Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith in the development of interest-based liberalism. It also explores lesser-known economic works by thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill in light of their more well-known political writings. With classical liberal assumptions still prominent in contemporary debates about economic justice, it is vital for every democratic citizen to understand the complex origins and development of the ideas that did so much to shape our world today.

Weimer, Walter B., Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism. Volume II: Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 359 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-200>
ISBN 978-3-030-95476-5 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This second volume, Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order, overviews developments in the theory of spontaneously ordered complex phenomena, the psychology of inference and expectation, the nature of anticipatory systems in the psychological and economic domains, and the evolution of scientific thought and knowledge. The book applies these insights to the nature of markets and morals, what education should consist of, and the problems of alienation and our existential malaise as we move into an increasingly abstract society. In doing so it also shows the unscientific nature of the rationalist constructivist approach of progressivism, and the disastrous consequences that would arise from following these positions. The book shows the complex interplay between top-down or directed structures (what Hayek and others have called taxis organizations) and far more complex orders of the social or psychological cosmos in which they are embedded as constituents. It details how the key to the market orders of society depends upon their capacity to impersonally convey information to agents. Markets can serve unknown and unforeseen ends for individuals who do not know or have contact with other market participants. This is a vastly more powerful and productive system than anything that can arise in a tribal or face-to-face organization limited to personal contact, such as the sort proposed by the constructivists. The book will be of interest to academics and scholars in classical liberalism, economics and political philosophy.

Weimer, Walter, Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism. Volume I: History and its Betrayal. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 300 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-201>
ISBN 978-3-030-94857-3 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This first volume, History and its Betrayal, traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day. It shows that the principles underlying liberalism are the evolutionary development of social organizations that have resulted from the complexity of human action rather than any conscious design or purpose. This book draws out the differences between the classical liberalism dependent upon spontaneous and tacit ordering as a result of evolution, and the explicit or conscious or directed version of progressivism. It shows that the most important recent developments in the philosophy of rationality and the methodology of scientific research, as well as in evolutionary epistemology and the philosophy of biology, actually stem from the theories of complex social organization of the moralists such as Hume, Ferguson, and Smith. The book shows clearly that classical liberalism was never refuted?indeed, no attempt to do so has been offered?it has simply been ignored in favor of programs which sound beneficial and soothing but which cannot be instituted without returning to tribalism.