Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945–89: Editors’ Introduction

Till Düppe is associate professor at the University of Québec in Montréal. His main research interest is the historical epistemology of economics, inspired by phenomenological philosophy. He is author of The Making of the Economy: A Phenomenology of Economic Science (2011) and Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit (with E. Roy Weintraub, 2014).

Ivan Boldyrev is assistant professor of history and philosophy of economics at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is a philosopher and a historian of ideas with wide-ranging interests, including the history and philosophy of recent economics, German idealism, and critical theory. A representative recent publication is the collection Enacting Dismal Science: New Studies on the Performativity of Economics, coedited with Ekaterina Svetlova (2016). Other publications include papers in professional journals and two books: Hegel, Institutions and Economics (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, 2014) and Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries (2015).