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

Haywood, Eliza Fowler, Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia. Ed. by S. Menke. (Women Philosophers Heritage Collection 2/1) 500 pp. 2024:9 (de Gruyter, GW) <729-44>
ISBN 978-3-11-114950-9 paper ¥5,872.- (税込) EUR 24.95 *

Early modern philosopher and economist Eliza Fowler Haywood’s Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the Kingdom of Utopia appears for the first time as a complete edition, marking 300 years after its original publication in 1724. Both Volume I, which discusses the economic and financial crisis of England’s South Sea Bubble, and Volume II, which, often brutally explicit, examines the accompanying decadence and moral decline, are finally available in one book. Beyond the popular portrayal as a mere scandal novel, Sina Menke examines the historical context of the Memoirs through their utopian, highly methodical form. Through her own deliberate acts of omission and obscuration, not much is known of Haywood’s biography. Through her writing, she has made sure that what endures is the portrait of a widely connected scholar, a critical philosopher, and economist. Her contributions to moral philosophy and economics allow for a clearer and more complete view of early 18th century English society. Haywood’s precise critique of a government ignoring the needs of its most vulnerable citizens remains compelling today.

高橋真悟著　J.R.コモンズの取引経済学
Takahashi, Shingo, Transaction Economics of John R. Commons: Toward Reasonable Capitalism. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 190 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-231>
ISBN 978-1-032-70138-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the institutional school, John R. Commons' theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change by taking the concept of transaction as a central point of departure.Commons' theories continue to influence modern economics, and in this book, Takahashi scrutinizes his construction of transaction and its features and offers a reinterpretation of Commons' institutional economics and transaction economics. He then explores how Commons' analysis of going concerns (e.g., firms) has broader and deeper applications that extend to monetary policy, labor policy, and the business cycle. Takahashi examines how Commons' and Veblen's dynamic theories share cumulative causation. He closes by positing that Commons' transaction economics seeks "reasonable capitalism" through a virtuous cycle of reasonable value and generation of good business ethics.This book will be attractive to researchers of institutional economics, political economy, heterodox economics, as well as the history of economic thought, law, and ethics.

アダム・スミス評論　第14巻
Forman, Fonna (ed.), The Adam Smith Review: Volume 14. 406 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-16>
ISBN 978-1-03-288572-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith's works, his place in history and the significance of his writings to the modern world.It is aimed at facilitating debate among scholars working across the humanities and social sciences, thus emulating the reach of the Enlightenment world which Smith helped to shape.