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

Schulte, Petra (Hrsg.), Geld und Arbeit: Nikolaus von Kues und das oekonomische Denken im 15. Jahrhundert. (Zeitenwende 1) 432 S. 2023:9 (Boehlau, GW) <705-235>
ISBN 978-3-412-52724-2 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) EUR 60.00 *

環境経済学史
Banzhaf, H. Spencer, Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics. (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) 310 pp. 2023:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <705-256>
ISBN 978-1-108-49100-6 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-79206-6 paper ¥7,489.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

While large literatures have separately examined the history of the environmental movement, government planning, and modern economics, Pricing the Priceless triangulates on all three. Offering the first book-length study of the history of modern environmental economics, it uncovers the unlikely role economists played in developing tools and instruments in support of environmental preservation. While economists were, and still are, seen as scientists who argue in favour of extracting natural resources, H. Spencer Banzhaf shows how some economists by the 1960s turned tools and theories used in defense of development into arguments in defense of the environment. Engaging with widely recognized names, such as John Muir, and major environmental disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, he offers a detailed examination of the environment, and explains how economics came to enter the field in a new way that made it possible to be "on the side" of the environment.

Bjoern, Frank, In the Long Run We Are All Dead: The Lives and Deaths of Great Economists. Tr. by J. Bullock. 172 pp. 2023:6 (Haus Pub., UK) <705-257>
ISBN 978-1-913368-57-9 hard ¥5,149.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

No one grows up dreaming of becoming an economist. Until the late nineteenth century, economics couldn't even be studied at university and was the preserve of polymathic figures whose radical curiosity drew them to an evolving discipline that was little understood and often derided. Each of the thirteen chapters of this book tells the story of just such a figure. Each of their extraordinary lives is worthy of fiction, and the manner of their deaths, oddly, often illuminates their work. In the Long Run We're All Dead shows us how these economists developed the theories for which they became famous, even if, tragically, much too late for them to enjoy their fame. And these often-complex ideas - of Utilitarianism, of Social Costs, of the Endowment Effect, to name just a few - are explained here with reference to the lives of their creators in a style that is engaging, irreverent, and comic. Though Frank tells us about these lives is true, this is also a book of imaginative speculation that considers how economist's principles might be applied to problems of today and of the future. 'In the long run', said John Maynard Keynes, 'we are all dead.' A blandly straightforward statement but one, when uttered by perhaps the greatest economist of the twentieth century, intriguingly gnomic too. Keynes is but one of the eccentrics, radical, unconventional, and often revolutionary thinkers who lives Frank entertainingly recounts.

Goutte, Pierre-Henri / Herencia, Bernard / Klotz, Gerard, Le Journal de l'agriculture, du commerce, des arts et des finances (1765-1783): histoire et analyse d'une revue economique d'Ancien Regime. Tome 1: Tables completes et documents. (Naissance de l'economie politique 15) 622 p. 2023:5 (Slatkine, SZ) <705-258>
ISBN 978-2-05-102875-2 paper ¥31,423.- (税込) SFR 97.50 *

B.ミラノヴィッチ著　不平等のビジョン－フランス革命から冷戦の終わりまで
Milanovic, Branko, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War. 368 pp. 2023:10 (Belknap Pr., US) <705-259>
ISBN 978-0-674-26414-4 hard ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?" That is the question Branko Milanovic imagines posing to six of history's most influential economists: Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets. Probing their works in the context of their lives, he charts the evolution of thinking about inequality, showing just how much views have varied among ages and societies. Indeed, Milanovic argues, we cannot speak of "inequality" as a general concept: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.Meticulously extracting each author's view of income distribution from their often voluminous writings, Milanovic offers an invaluable genealogy of the discourse surrounding inequality. These intellectual portraits are infused not only with a deep understanding of economic theory but also with psychological nuance, reconstructing each thinker's outlook given what was unknowable to them within their historical contexts and methodologies.

政治的資本主義の時代におけるハイエク
Yadav, Vikash, Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism. 288 pp. 2023:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <705-261>
ISBN 978-0-226-82147-4 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek's most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates around capitalism and its discontents. In the ensuing discord, Hayek's true message was lost: liberalism is a thing to be protected above all else, and its alternatives are perilous. In Liberalism's Last Man, Vikash Yadav revives the core of Hayek's famed work to map today's primary political anxiety: the tenuous state of liberal meritocratic capitalism-particularly in North America, Europe, and Asia-in the face of strengthening political-capitalist powers like China, Vietnam, and Singapore. As open societies struggle to match the economic productivity of authoritarian-capitalist economies, the promises of a meritocracy fade; Yadav channels Hayek to articulate how liberalism's moral backbone is its greatest defense against repressive social structures.