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

Dewitz, Anne-Kristin, Transatlantis: Der oeffentliche Intellektuelle John Kenneth Galbraith und Deutschland (1945-1979). (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte 139) 338 S. 2023:8 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <715-165>
ISBN 978-3-11-108619-4 hard ¥19,434.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Der kanadisch-amerikanische Oekonom John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) gilt als einer der profiliertesten Kommentatoren von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in der zweiten Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Anne-Kristin von Dewitz untersucht seine Beziehungen zu Deutschland von den 1940er bis 1970er Jahren und beleuchtet seine Position als oeffentlicher Intellektueller. Als Experte mit Gestaltungsmacht gelang es Galbraith, in den Jahrzehnten nach dem Krieg Einfluss auf die politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung der Bundesrepublik zu nehmen. Galbraith‘ Buecher und Reden fanden viel Resonanz, vor allem im Kontext der kritischen Betrachtung des neuen Wohlstands seit den 1960er Jahren. Warum fanden seine Worte so starken Widerhall? Welche Parteien und Gruppierungen waren an seinen Perspektiven interessiert und aus welchen Motiven? Die Analyse seiner Schriften und Korrespondenzen sowie seiner medialen und politischen Rezeption nimmt das Wirken Galbraith‘ ? auf Basis bislang ungenutzter Quellen ? neu in den Blick.

Fiorito, Luca / Scheall, Scott / Suprinyak, C. E. (eds.), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism. (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 41A) 240 pp. 2023:10 (Emerald, UK) <715-166>
ISBN 978-1-83549-517-9 hard ¥29,620.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on "Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism," a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.

A.シュピートホフとドイツ歴史学派経済学－連続性と非連続性
Gioia, Vitantonio, Arthur Spiethoff and the German Historical School of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 248 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-167>
ISBN 978-1-03-214875-5 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Arthur Spiethoff (1873-1957), an economist of the German Historical School of Economics, is best known for his theory of the business cycle. Despite Spiethoff calling for a unified reading of his work, his epistemological thinking has received less attention. This book addresses that gap by analysing Spiethoff's theory of the business cycle in the light of his epistemological views. Putting Spiethoff's work in context, the book also investigates the most significant features of the evolution of the "research programme" of the German Historical School of Economics, with particular reference to the relationships between Schmoller, Sombart, Weber and Spiethoff. In addition, Spiethoff's work is compared with some of the scientific orientations of the current debates: on the epistemological side, the book examines the relationship between Spiethoff's views and some contemporary thinking on scientific realism, as well as methodological pluralism in social sciences. And, more broadly, it emphasises the analytical relevance of the historical approach in explaining the economic imbalances of contemporary capitalism, questioning the idea, widespread in the neoclassical approach, that taking historical specificities into account makes it hard to achieve a theoretically effective attitude. This book is a significant addition to the literature on the German Historical School of Economics and the history of economic thought, business cycle theory and macroeconomics more broadly.

自由貿易世界の左翼のビジョン
Palen, Marc-William, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. 328 pp. 2024:4 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <715-168>
ISBN 978-0-691-19932-0 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea, Palen explores how, beginning in the 1840s, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twentieth century, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians envisioned free trade as essential for a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course, this vision was at odds with the era's strong predilections for nationalism, protectionism, geopolitical conflict, and colonial expansion. Palen reveals how, for some of its most radical left-wing adherents, free trade represented a hard-nosed critique of imperialism, militarism, and war.Palen shows that the anti-imperial component of free trade was a phenomenon that came to encompass the political left wing within the British, American, Spanish, German, Dutch, Belgian, Italian, Russian, French, and Japanese empires. The left-wing vision of a "pax economica" evolved to include supranational regulation to maintain a peaceful free-trading system-which paved the way for a more liberal economic order after World War II and such institutions as the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization. Palen's findings upend how we think about globalisation, free trade, anti-imperialism, and peace. Rediscovering the left-wing history of globalism offers timely lessons for our own era of economic nationalism and geopolitical conflict.