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

メンガー経済学
Sielska, Alicja / Jasinski, Lukasz / Turowski, K. (eds.), Mengerian Economics. (New Thinking in Political Economy) 244 pp. 2023 (E. Elgar, UK) <690-205>
ISBN 978-1-03-530288-8 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Presenting a wide range of topics and written 150 years since Carl Menger's Principles of Economics was published, this timely book reviews Menger's life and theories and explains how his insights on the creation of money are still inspiring and relevant today. Highlighting state-of-the-art results on Menger's methodology and economic theory, the book expertly analyses key topics such as the debt theory of money, capital wealth and the gender wage gap. Chapters also cover up-to-date topics such as Bitcoin and technological progress reinvigorating the study of Menger's philosophies and their application for future work in economics and the history of economic thought. Comprehensive in its approach, this book will provide an excellent addition to the mainstream literature for scholars and students of economics, Austrian economics and the philosophy of economics. Researchers interested in economic development and other areas such as Bitcoin will find this an excellent resource for their research.

希少性－資本主義の起源から気候危機までの歴史
Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton / Wennerlind, Carl, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. 304 pp. 2023:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <690-206>
ISBN 978-0-674-98708-1 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption irrespective of nature's limits. Yet as Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind show, this vision of scarcity is historically novel and was not inevitable even in the age of capitalism. Rather, it reflects the costly triumph of infinite-growth ideologies across centuries of European economic thought-at the expense of traditions that sought to live within nature's constraints.The dominant conception of scarcity today holds that, rather than master our desires, humans must master nature to meet those desires. Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind argue that this idea was developed by thinkers such as Francis Bacon, Samuel Hartlib, Alfred Marshall, and Paul Samuelson, who laid the groundwork for today's hegemonic politics of growth. Yet proponents of infinite growth have long faced resistance from agrarian radicals, romantic poets, revolutionary socialists, ecofeminists, and others. These critics-including the likes of Gerrard Winstanley, Dorothy Wordsworth, Karl Marx, and Hannah Arendt-embraced conceptions of scarcity in which our desires, rather than nature, must be mastered to achieve the social good. In so doing, they dramatically reenvisioned how humans might interact with both nature and the economy.Following these conflicts into the twenty-first century, Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind insist that we need new, sustainable models of economic thinking to address the climate crisis. Scarcity is not only a critique of infinite growth, but also a timely invitation to imagine alternative ways of flourishing on Earth.

20世紀初頭における景気研究の展開－経済理論の発展研究　第40巻
Spahn, Peter (Hrsg.), Entwicklung der Konjunkturforschung im fruehen 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Entwicklung der oekonomischen Theorie XL. (Schriften des Vereins fuer Socialpolitik NF 115/XL) 317 S. 2022:10 (Duncker, GW) <690-207>
ISBN 978-3-428-18677-8 paper ¥24,284.- (税込) EUR 99.90 *

≫The Formation of Business Cycle Research in the Early 20th Century≪: The formation of research on macroeconomic fluctuations in the early 20th century was characterised by a debate on key questions: is the business cycle a problem of applied economic theory, or does it require a fundamentally new synthesis of micro- and macroeconomics? What was the role of money in completing this task? Can macro fluctuations be explained by a collection and inspection of data, or can these data only be properly read by a dominant theory, chosen for analytical reasons?