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

Comyn, Sarah, Political Economy. (Short Takes on Long Views) 70 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <727-168>
ISBN 978-1-032-25115-8 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

Providing a 'short take' on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics. It traces the history of political economy from its beginnings in the Scottish Enlightenment; through its disciplinary demarcation as a science in the nineteenth century that saw its differentiation from literary, aesthetic, and moral discourses; and to its emergence as the 'amoral' market-driven neoliberalism that dominates economic theories and policies today.In exploring the long history of economic thought, it examines and challenges both Enlightenment and contemporary grand narratives such as the stadial theory of progress, the 'Great Divergence' and the 'Great Convergence' that have divided the world into global norths and souths according to their economic advantages. It concludes with a study of currency as both a medium of monetary exchange and a term that denotes prevalence and acceptance to explore political economy's continuous engagement with the problem of representing value through money. Part of the series Short Takes on Long Views, this book will appeal to a traditional academic audience of scholars and students, and to a wider public audience of informed non-fiction readers interested in the long history of economics.

リカードウの夢－いかに経済学者が現実世界を忘れ、我々を迷わせるか
Dyer, Nat, Ricardo's Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray. 288 pp. 2024:11 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <727-169>
ISBN 978-1-5292-2550-1 paper ¥4,286.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world. But where do these ideas come from? Ricardo's Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith's only real rival as the 'founder of economics'. The wealthiest stock trader of his day, Ricardo introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the theory of trade that underpinned globalization and hides, behind its mathematical facade, a history of power, empire, and slavery. Brimming with fresh ideas and stories, Ricardo's Dream shows how too many economists, from Ricardo's day to our own, have turned away from observing the real world and led us astray.

Waechter, Gerhard H., The Capitalist Economy and its Prosthetics: Necessity, Evolution and Dilemmas of a Brotherhood. (Edition transcript 13) 532 S. 2024:5 (Transcript, GW) <727-171>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7278-7 paper ¥9,180.- (税込) EUR 39.00

Notwithstanding its ruthless dynamics, the capitalist economy has the flaw of deficient employment-generating spending. This leads to unemployment of non-owners, individual suffering, social unrest and it undermines military strength. To deal with these issues, states use prosthetic policies, artificial transfers to the productive economy and to non-owners. But the funding of such prosthetic policies - through violent wealth appropriation abroad, protectionism, war, domestic expropriation and taxation, debt and money creation - is caught in dilemmas, while politicians are caught between non-solutions. According to Gerhard H. Waechter, the history of capitalist society is largely the history of this dilemmatic brotherhood.

S.ホランダー著　へーゲルの倫理・国家・公共政策論－カント及び功利主義との比較
Hollander, Samuel, Hegel on Ethics, the State and Public Policy: Comparisons with Immanuel Kant and Utilitarianism. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 288 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <727-22>
ISBN 978-1-032-74941-9 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

Drawing on a wide range of Hegel's writings, this book analyses the Hegelian position on ethical action. This position is systematically compared with that of Immanuel Kant, the comparison emphasizing Hegel's insistence on a morality grounded in an 'ethical' context which essentially refers to the state rather than the agent's private will. The argument proceeds to the relationship between the state and the various components of civil society, and to the interaction between the state and the individual, and feeds into the debate regarding Hegel's status in relation to Utilitarian Ethics and liberalism. This book carries further the researches published in A History of Utilitarian Ethics and Immanuel Kant and Utilitarian Ethics and will be of interest to readers in the history of political economy, political science, philosophy and ethics.