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

統計グラフの父W.プレイフェアの物語
Bellhouse, David R., The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics. 352 pp. 2023:1 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <679-191>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4503-1 hard ¥12,289.- (税込) US$ 57.00 *

A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759-1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed - erroneously - that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to print the paper money of the French Revolution. The Flawed Genius of William Playfair offers a complete account of Playfair's life, richly contextualized in the economic, political, and cultural history of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The book explores the many peaks and troughs of Playfair's career, ranging from moderate prosperity to bankruptcy and imprisonment. Through careful analysis, David R. Bellhouse shows that Playfair was neither a spy nor a forger, but perhaps briefly a one-time courier for a government minister. Bellhouse pieces together as complete a picture as possible of the forging operations supported by the British government and illuminates Playfair's lasting contributions in economics and statistics, where he is known as the father of statistical graphics. Disputing the misinformation about the man, The Flawed Genius of William Playfair highlights that the truth about Playfair's life is often more intriguing than the fictions that surround him.

米国における初期の経済学史－教授と理論へのドイツ歴史学派の影響
Filip, Birsen, The Early History of Economics in the United States: The Influence of the German Historical School of Economics on Teaching and Theory. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 288 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <679-193>
ISBN 978-1-03-216240-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Since the latter half of the 20th century, the economics departments of American universities were internationally renowned for providing competitive and advanced levels of education. However, from the 1870s up until the beginning of WWI, German universities held international supremacy when it came to the quality of teaching, the enrollment of foreign students, and scholarly publications. This book examines the role of the German Historical School of Economics (GHSE) in the development of the discipline of economics in the US during this period. The chapters explain that, prior to the influence of the GHSE, political economy was in a dismal state in the US, both as a profession and an academic discipline. As a result, many Americans elected to go to Germany in pursuit of an advanced education in political economy, having been inspired by the unmatched international reputations of theorists of the GHSE. After they returned home, these German-trained Americans challenged the dominant status of classical orthodoxy and revolutionized the discipline of economics in the US by importing the ideas, methods, and approaches of the GHSE. In doing so, they established the first dedicated political economy departments, graduate programs, and chairs at American universities and colleges. Although the precise magnitude and value of the influence of the GHSE is impossible to quantify, there is no doubt that Americans are deeply indebted to this school of thought for its contributions to the early development of the discipline of economics in the US. The chapters also examine what has been lost since: the current mainstream in economics has eliminated many of the features that were once so important to the discipline that it has effectively limited contemporary economics to a small fraction of the complex organism defined by the German Historical School. This situation has facilitated the poverty of the leading economic school of thought, as well as the discipline of economics in general.This book represents a significant contribution to the literature on the history of economic thought and economic education in the US. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of economics, political science, sociology, and the philosophy of economics.

Fiorito, Luca / Scheall, Scott / Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo (eds.), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium On the Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models. (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 40, B) 288 pp. 2022:9 (Emerald, UK) <679-194>
ISBN 978-1-80382-708-7 hard ¥25,225.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

The centerpiece of Volume 40B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is a symposium on the work of William Baumol, edited by Erwin Dekker. The symposium includes contributions from Alex Tabarrok, Jochen Hartwig and Hagen M. Kraemer, Alexandre Chirat, Victor A. Beker, Caroline Colton, Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula, and Anna Noci. Volume 40B also features new general-research essays from Juan Pablo Castilla and Fabrizio Bientinesi.

Naudet, Jean-Yves, Une breve histoire des economistes aixois: a l'universite et a l'Academie d'Aix. (Collection du Centre d'ethique economique) 110 p. 2022:4 (Pr. U. d'Aix-Marseille, FR) <679-195>
ISBN 978-2-7314-1238-3 paper ¥4,620.- (税込) EUR 15.00

Etner, Francois, Catholiques et economistes: leurs controverses depuis la Revolution. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste 46) 453 p. 2022:5 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <679-141>
ISBN 978-2-406-12948-6 hard ¥20,479.- (税込) EUR 87.00 *
ISBN 978-2-406-12947-9 paper ¥11,299.- (税込) EUR 48.00