... that, when financial economics was “imported” from the United States in France in 1970s, some pioneering French contributions have been taught for almost a century. Based on this result, the article explains why the French authors who disseminated these ideas rarely referred to the works of French...

.... : Princeton University Press . Young R. A. Yager C. A. . 1960 . “ The Economics of ‘Bills Preferably.’ ” Quarterly Journal of Economics 74 ( 3 ): 341 – 73 . Are There Important Differences between Classical and Twenty- First-Century Monetary Theories? Did the Keynesian...

... important works printed in 42 volumes. Edited with new introductions, by Michael Hudson. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1974. $18.50 a volume. This Garland series is an important collection of the writings of thirty-four neglected economists of the pre-Civil War and post-Civil...

...Jean-Baptiste Fleury; Alain Marciano This article studies the few works James Buchanan wrote on education from the end of the 1950s to the early 1970s. These neglected works tell us important things about how Buchanan's ideas on constitutions evolved through time, because they provided Buchanan...

...Daniela Parisi This essay focuses on Francesco Vito (1902–1968), one of the most important Italian economists and a contributor to an extensive, thorough debate in Catholic social thinking, a debate at times accompanied and followed by exacting and solid experience in the real world, in an effort...

...Erich Pinzón-Fuchs Lawrence R. Klein was one of the most important figures in the collective development of macroeconometric modeling, a novel scientific practice that dominated macroeconomics throughout the first decades of the second half of the twentieth century. Understanding how Klein...

...Loïc Charles; Yann Giraud The rise of visual representation in textbooks is an important feature of the development of the economics discipline after World War II. We argue that it was preceded by a no less significant rise of visual representation in the larger literature devoted to social...

...Luis Perdices de Blas; José Luis Ramos-Gorostiza Blanco White was one of the most important Spanish intellectuals of the first half of the nineteenth century. Being exiled in England (1810–41) and speaking English fluently enabled him to meet some of the period’s greatest economists...

... in the American colonies. The debates and discussions in which Paine wants to intervene cannot be the same in Wilkes's England as in revolutionary France. Locating the proposal of a universal basic income in this context has important implications for the history of its conception. It compels us to highlight...

... of the politically powerful as on genuine talent and diligence. State socialism was not the kind of social order that would typically enable a spectacular scholarly development just “by force of thought.” The article focuses on the story of one particularly important patron in Hungary over the field of economics...

... of an authoritarian regime, how could an imported policy idea that bluntly contradicted official ideology reach a degree of dissemination and (among a specific stratum of the elite) popularity that would later turn it into a central pillar of reform policy? An important finding is that the idea of convergence united...

... of the economics of inequality focusses upon the pivotal figure of Tony Atkinson, the most important British economic theorist of inequality, but also an important figure in policy debate since the 1970s. Correspondence may be addressed to James Tomlinson at [email protected] . Copyright © 2020...

...Mary S. Morgan Twentieth-century economics has been characterized as developing an engineering mentality, but this history suggests the importance of distinguishing between a design approach and a problem-solving approach. The former is to be found in economists tasked with reconstructing broken...

...Mária Hidvégi This article offers a case study about the importance of Staatenkunde (descriptive statistics) for Cameralism and the development of economic thought in Hungary, a country that has been rarely included into political economic studies about Cameralism. It aims at showing how...

...Alexandre Mendes Cunha The connection between economic and legal knowledge is an important gateway to the reflection on how Cameralist perspectives traveled within the framework of continental Europe enlightened reformism during the eighteenth century. This article focusses on the Iberian context...

... between the ideas of cameralism and Policeywissenschaft (police science) in the Germanic world and in French economic thought during that historical moment. Giving attention to the author/translator of this Élémens , the paper also contributes to an original reflection on the importance of Switzerland...

...Ivo Maes; Ilaria Pasotti Robert Triffin (1911–1993) played an important role in the international monetary debates in the postwar period. He was known as one of the main advocates of a multipolar international monetary system. In this paper we analyze the origins of Triffin’s “regional” approach...

... on its own ground, which is the fascinating and unique aspect of the book. In the discussion he also works out some principles of social philosophy. Capital is underplayed: the only original all-important production factor is land. The importance given to the right of private property in land...

... and also that when TFP growth is rapid, improvements in efficiency are usually an important complement to technological progress. Nevertheless, growth accounting was important in undermining the “capital fundamentalism” of the 1950s and has been central to putting the contribution of technological progress...