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

共産主義計画対合理性－数理経済学と東欧及び中国における中央計画
Kovacs, Janos Matyas (ed.), Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. (Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective) 424 pp. 2022:5 (Lexington Books, US) <695-273>
ISBN 978-1-79363-177-0 hard ¥28,459.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of "optimal planning" which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites a panacea for the recurrent crises of the planned economy. Simultaneously, their planning projects conveyed the pride of rational management and scientific superiority over the West. The authors trace the rise and fall of the research program in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe, including the Soviet Union, and China, describing why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why the failure was nevertheless very slow. The theorists of optimal planning contributed to the rehabilitation of mathematical culture in economic research in the communist countries, and thus, to a neoclassical turn in economics all over the ex-communist world). However, because they have not rejected optimal planning as "computopia," there is a large space left behind for future generations to experiment with Big Optimal Plans anew-based, at this time, on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

S.ローズフィールド著　社会主義の経済制度－21世紀の経路
Rosefielde, Steven, Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 320 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-274>
ISBN 978-1-03-244316-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and performance during 1820-2022, identifies a feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework for the comparison of economic systems. The book opens by surveying pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects of the revolutionary and democratic socialist political movements that emerged after 1870 and considers the comparative economic, political and social performance of the USSR and others from the Bolshevik Revolution onwards. The book also provides case studies for all revolutionary Marxist-Leninist regimes, and supplementary discussions of Mondragon cooperatives, Israeli kibbutzim, Nordic corporatism and European democratic socialism. It investigates the theoretical and practical complexities of command-planning, reform communism, market communism, worker economic management and egalitarianism. It examines communism as an engine of economic growth, and a mechanism for improving people's quality of existence, including living standards, labor self-governance, egalitarianism, social justice, and prevention of crimes against humanity before addressing the perennial question of what needs to be done next. A suggested path forward is elaborated drawing lessons from the warts-and-all historical performance of socialist economies during 1917-2022 and failed socialist prophesy. The evidence indicates that the key to 21st-century socialism success lies in empowering workers of all descriptions to govern democratically for their mutual protection and welfare without the extraneous imposition of priorities imposed by other movements. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in socialism, political economy, comparative economic systems, and political and social history.

シスモンディの往復書簡の歴史
Sofia, Francesca, Histoire de la correspondance de Jean-Charles-Leonard Simonde de Sismondi: avec l'inventaire des lettres recues et envoyees (1793-1842). (Erudition) 2022:11 (Slatkine, SZ) <695-275>
ISBN 978-2-05-102919-3 paper ¥21,767.- (税込) SFR 66.63 *

Swan, Peter L., Trevor Winchester Swan. Volume II: Contributions to Economic Theory and Policy. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought) 280 pp. 2023:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <695-276>
ISBN 978-3-031-23806-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia's greatest ever economist. Some of Swan's most prominent articles are presented alongside analysis of his work from leading historians of economic thought to provide a broad and insightful view of his work. Particular attention is given to Swan's work on the balance of payments, economic development, capital accumulation, and the neoclassical growth model. This book aims to shed light on the enigmatic and influential life of Trevor Winchester Swan. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and those that want to understand the foundations of modern macro, trade, and neoclassical economics.

Tazzara, Corey, Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire. (Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850) 240 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-277>
ISBN 978-1-03-231674-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer of the highest caliber-at once an original thinker and a remarkable witness to how Europeans even at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.Unique among commercial theorists of the period, Sassetti offers a first-hand perspective on commerce in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This volume translates (for the first time) the Discourse on Mediterranean Trade and a selection of the principal Indian Letters, with extensive historical notes. These are preceded by a lengthy essay positioning Sassetti as a figure in late Renaissance political economy. It makes the case that Sassetti was an early theorist of what might be termed the pragmatic tradition of free trade-in his case, a project linked to his analysis of commercial institutions in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Provoking an invaluable overview of trade in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth century, this volume is an excellent specialist text for postgraduate students and professional historians.