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

Lai, Cheng-chung, Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective. 122 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-19>
ISBN 978-981-19-6572-2 hard ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99 *

This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective.

Tsaknov, Sergei / Gorinov, Mikhail M. et al (eds.), The Preobrazhensky Papers. Volume 3: Concrete Analysis of the Soviet Economy. (Historical Materialism Book Series 261) 571 pp. 2022:11 (Brill, NE) <688-204>
ISBN 978-90-04-52495-8 hard ¥45,702.- (税込) EUR 188.00

Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia's foremost economist in the 1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and communist morality. The bulk of the work consists of Preobrazhensky's Concrete Analysis of the Soviet Economy, which supplements his theoretical inquiry published in Volume II. A number of appendices present Preobrazhensky's analysis of the NEP and his correspondence with Trotsky alongside extensive contributions by the volume's editors and translators.

Tsaknov, Sergei / Gorinov, Mikhail M. et al. (eds.), The Preobrazhensky Papers. Volume 2: The New Economics (Theory and Practice): 1922-1928. (Historical Materialism Book Series 260) 500 pp. 2022:11 (Brill, NE) <688-205>
ISBN 978-90-04-51520-8 hard ¥42,542.- (税込) EUR 175.00

Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia's foremost economist in the 1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and communist morality. The editors create a unique portrait of Preobrazhensky as an economist and social theorist, assess the viability of NEP as a model of economic growth, and identify the fault lines that contributed to the split in the Trotskyist Opposition and its defeat in the struggle against Stalin. The bulk of the work consists of the important An Attempt to Provide a Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy, while the material in Volume III focuses on concrete analysis.