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

自然と経済社会－古典派及びケインジアンのアプローチ
Aspromourgos, Tony, Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Approach. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) 168 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-153>
ISBN 978-1-03-258028-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy.Building upon his decades of research into classical and Keynesian economics, Tony Aspromourgos here turns his attention to the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. The result is a tightly argued, concise but comprehensive interpretation of that vital issue, undertaken in the framework of a Classical-Keynesian synthesis. The classical dimension is utilization of a surplus approach to production and distribution, and the Keynesian dimension, incorporation of demand-side determination of economic activity levels and growth. In this conception the human economy is understood as a circular flow but an incompletely circular system: crucially dependent upon nature both as a source of finite non-renewable and exhaustible resources for human production and consumption and as the destination or 'sink', also finite, for the waste and pollution from that production and consumption.This is an introductory account of the subject, providing maximum accessibility by presupposing only basic knowledge of economic analysis and only elementary algebra, but including a wide-ranging guide to further and more advanced relevant literature. Part I provides a comprehensive overview of the Classical-Keynesian approach, in the usual manner of economic analysis, without systematic incorporation of nature. Part II then incorporates the various dimensions of the natureeconomy interrelationship.This book will be of great interest to readers of economic theory, economics and the environment, and heterodox economics.

経済学と心理学－不安定な歴史
Drakopoulos, Stavros / Katselidis, Ioannis, Economics and Psychology: An Uneasy History. (Routledge Advances in Behavioural Economics and Finance) 120 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-154>
ISBN 978-1-03-213201-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

With the rise of modern behavioural economics and increasing interest in subjective well-being research, the question of the relationship between economics and psychology has again been brought to the fore. Drawing on the history of economic thought, this book explores the historical relationship between the two disciplines. The book opens with a description of the primary philosophical foundations for early arguments supporting the interplay between economics and psychology. Both classical economists and other prominent pre-marginalists writers are examined in this context. The ensuing discussion explores the marginalist revolution and how well-known economists like Jevons and Edgeworth, influenced by pre-marginalist writers, incorporated ideas and findings from psychology. The book then describes how, following the so-called "Paretian turn", early neoclassical economists attempted to expel psychological concepts from economic analysis. Combined with the increasing formalization, the influence of the classical physics scientific ideal, and the impact of positivism, this methodological stance became dominant in modern mainstream economics. In contrast, non-mainstream traditions continued to acknowledge the significance of psychology in their economic analysis. This tradition includes inter alia the so-called old behavioural economics, mainly of Herbert Simon and George Katona. The revival of psychology in economics came mainly with the emergence and development of new behavioural economics as a distinct branch during the last few decades. The trend was further assisted by the emergence of the economics of subjective well-being. Finally, the book briefly explores the state of the current debate concerning the relationship between economics and psychology. This book will be invaluable reading to anyone interested in the history of the study of economics and psychology, as well as of great interest to students and scholars of history of economic thought, psychological economics, behavioural economics and the history and philosophy of social sciences.

Nelson, Robert L., Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871-1945. 335 pp. 2024:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <707-155>
ISBN 978-1-00-923536-5 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany's future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key figure in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier, as well as in the overall transformation of the German Right from the Bismarckian 1880s to the Hitlerian 1930s. 'Inner colonization' was the settlement of farmers in threatened borderland areas within the nation's boundaries. Focusing on this phenomenon, Frontiers of Empire complicates the standard thesis of separation between the colonizing country and the colonized space, and blurs the typical boundaries between colonizer and colonized subjects. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

〔原田哲史他寄稿〕社会政策学会史によせて－ドイツ社会政策学会150周年記念論集
Spahn, Peter (Hrsg.), Zur Geschichte des Vereins fuer Socialpolitik: Studien zur Entwicklung der oekonomischen Theorie XLI. (Schriften des Vereins fuer Socialpolitik NF 115/XLI) 321 S. 2023:8 (Duncker, GW) <707-156>
ISBN 978-3-428-18972-4 paper ¥24,284.- (税込) EUR 99.90 *

Im Jahr 1873, vor 150 Jahren, wurde der Verein fuer Socialpolitik gegruendet. Aus diesem Anlass beschaeftigte sich der Vereinsausschuss fuer die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaft im Juni 2022 mit zentralen Themen der Vereinsgeschichte. Analysiert wird die Rolle von Gustav Schmoller als Fuehrungsfigur der Deutschen Historischen Schule und massgeblichem Mitbegruender und Vorsitzenden des Vereins. Behandelt werden die Auseinandersetzungen um die Selbstaufloesung des Vereins im Nationalsozialismus sowie die Kontroversen um Neoliberalismus und Soziale Marktwirtschaft nach 1948. Untersucht wird auch die sich bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs entwickelnde Beteiligung von Frauen am Vereinsleben als Mitglieder, Tagungsteilnehmerinnen und Verfasserinnen von Beitraegen. Schliesslich geht es um die zunehmend empirische Orientierung der Volkswirtschaftslehre, mit der Forderung nach einer evidenzbasierten Wirtschaftspolitik, und die wechselhafte Rolle der Wirtschaftsgeschichte in der Vereinsentwicklung.