...Jeff Lipkes Raised as an Orthodox Jew, Milton Friedman wrote almost nothing about Jews and Judaism, with the exception of a paper entitled “Capitalism and the Jews,” delivered three times and printed four times. To help explain the paradox that although Jews have benefited hugely from capitalism...

...Jacob Viner Chapter Four The Weber Thesis In two essays published in 1905 Max Weber presented an interpreta- tion of the historical relations of Protestantism and capitalism which has dictated the setting in which practically all the discussion of this topic has...

.... California State College-Bakersfield JOHNA. MENEFEE Selig Perlman’s Lectures on Capitalism and Socialism. By A. L. Resch Owen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. Pp. 183. $12.50. This book reproduces Selig Perlman’s 1942 lectures in his famous course at Wisconsin...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Modern models of economic growth and capitalist modernity rest on capital accumulation, inclusive institutions, and various often unquantifiable aspects of “culture” (to which institutions belong). Scholars have also pinpointed the ability, or rather illusion, of human...

...Philipp Robinson Rössner Capitalism is often assumed to have been invented in the Anglosphere. Writings by Hume and Smith have been named as cornerstones in the making of capitalism and modern economic knowledge. But Smith’s and the other Enlightenment Scots’ works built on a commercial tradition...

...Lars Magnusson Lars.Magnusson@ekhist.uu.se Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Mercantilism and the Making of the Modern Economic Mind . By Philipp Robinson Rössner . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 . 167 pp. $59.99 . Copyright 2022 by Duke...

...Nicolas Vallois; Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled “Capitalism and the Jews.” The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man’s public interventions on the theme...

... the profound influence of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism on our understanding of Franklin and the economic order he helped shape. In so challenging, it seeks to restore the deliberately incomplete and implicitly teleological economic ethos promoted by both Franklin and Smith...

...Gregory Claeys History of Political Economy I6:2 0 1984 by Duke University Press Engels’ Outlines of a critique of political economy (1843) and the origins of the Marxist critique of capitalism Gregory...

...: an Austrian view of capitalism. By W. Dun- can Reekie. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984. Pp. 188 $27.50. This book is one of several recent offerings (Alex Shand’s The capitalist alter- native and Mario Rizzo and Gerald O’Driscoll’s The economics of time and ig- norance being others...

... hcritagc of "capitalism with a human 1';icc." Nowhere. howcvcr. docs Brenncr take issuc with thc conscrvativc alterna- tive vicw to his thesis; viz. that rclativc stability can bc tnaintaincd by reducing social-service invcstmcnts and cxpenditurcs whilc increasing nionics !'or defense...

... 01987 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/87/$1.50 The Institute economists: from Physiocracy to entrepreneurial capitalism Martin S. Staum I. Economists of the Institute In eighteenth-century France the first coherent system...

...Geoffrey M. Hodgson Schumpeter’s Evolutionary Economics: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Engine of Capitalism . By Andersen Esben Sloth . London : Anthem , 2009 . 493 pp. $175.00 (hardback); $50.00 (paperback) . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press...

... 0 1982 by Duke University Press Marx on the use of history in the analysis of capitalism Richard Nordahl Everyone knows that Marx has an ‘historical approach’. But there is con- fusion regarding the nature of that approach. How does Marx use ‘history’ to help understand...

...Arthur Schweitzer Gordon Marshall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. x, 406. $54.00. Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Book Reviews 143 Presbyteries and projts: Calvinism and the development of capitalism in Scot...

... critique of capitalism. By Franz J. Hinkelammert, trans. Phillip Berryman. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986. Pp. xxi, 282. Paper, $17.95. The subtitle to the English translation of this work is not employed in the Span- ish original.’ It is, nevertheless, a veritable tour de force...

... and Robbins opposed this. John Hicks recounts how contacts with Lindahl influenced his Value and Capital in 1939. Jens Christopher Andvig compares the Stockholm economists with Ragnar Frisch in Norway and recapitu- lates the latter’s criticism. Jan Petersson describes the criticism emanating from...

...William M. Dugger Jonas Zoninsein. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. x, 137 pp. $37.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews Monopoly Capital Theory: Hilferding and Twentieth-Century Capitalism. By Jonas Zoninsein. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. x...

...Spencer J. Pack 380 History of Political Economy 25:2 (1993) , ed. 1976. Method and Appraisal in Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. By Patricia H. Werhane. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 219 pp...

... would not make blanket criticisms of Smith without at least pretend- ing to have read The Wealth of Nations, or Keynes without pretending to have read The General Theory, let us not bash Marx without at least pretending to have read Capital. Spencer J. Pack...