...Edd Noell noell@westmont.edu Divine Providence in Early Modern Economic Thought . By Joost Hengstmengel . New York : Routledge , 2019 . viii; 248 pp. $160.00 . Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 A vital tenet of Christian theology from its origins has been...

... . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Adam Smith’s “Optimistic Deism,” the Invisible Hand of Providence, and the Unhappiness of Nations Terry Peach The question of whether Adam Smith subscribed to some version of what I call “optimistic deism” (in short) is one to which...

... to exercise a major influence on the developmental imaginary both in the United States and in many other countries. This article examines how modernization theory’s leading progenitor, Walt Whitman Rostow, developed his narrative of modernization to provide a metahistorical theory of development and asserts...

...Carlo Cristiano; Paolo Paesani This paper provides a contextual analysis in which Phillips 1958 is seen as part of a wider research effort, aimed at exploring how to reconcile price stability with levels of unemployment that, while low in absolute terms, were higher than those prevailing in Britain...

...” is still very useful for understanding measurements where intervention is not possible. Haavelmo's classic is very rich: it provided the framework for introducing probabilistic methods in econometrics and a profound discussion on invariance (autonomy). These subjects are well treated by various historians...

...Marcel Boumans This article aims to show the mathematical contexts out of which emerged Solow's 1957 article “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function.” In particular, it seeks to provide some understanding of its most striking feature, namely, the highly aggregate level on which...

... steps. The first step is provided in section 1. This deals with Ricardo’s criticisms both of Say’s and Lauderdale’s criticisms of Smith and of Smith’s and Malthus’s arguments on the related issues of rent and the “annual produce of the land and labour of a country.” The second step is provided...

...Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay This paper provides a narrative of the emergence of the standard textbook definition of public goods. It focuses on Richard A. Musgrave's contribution in defining public goods as nonrival and nonexcludable—from 1937 to 1973. Although Samuelson's mathematical definition...

...Thomas Michael Mueller In 1881, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth attempted to provide a solid psychological basis for utility measurement. I will show that Edgeworth’s main struggle was to provide a possible measurement scale for a feeling—pleasure—using some kind of physical magnitude that would have...

..., and the problem of the dollar shortage. This article provides a comprehensive interpretation of this early stage of Hirschman's intellectual biography, including a discussion of an unpublished proposal for the creation of a new European Monetary Authority developed under the auspices of Paul Hoffman...

... and that they reproduce here in the appendix of the article. The authors combine these new sources of information with a close reading of materials—in particular the two letters sent by Quesnay to Mirabeau when he worked on the first two versions of the Tableau to provide a largely revised chronology of the conception...

... it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding academic communities and with the help of a number of examples I show where its potential lies. Correspondence may be addressed to Andrej...

...Douglas A. Irwin Over the last decade, there has been an outpouring of scholarly research on the Chicago school of economics and its leading figures. This paper provides a selective survey of this research, focusing in particular on (1) the origins of a distinctive Chicago economics in the 1930s...

..., but emerges most clearly in the 1976 book. There, Scitovsky presents in an economic context the essential elements of Fromm’s psychosocial critique of the United States, a Puritan-type culture that encourages moneymaking but not the cultivation of leisure; a mass-production economy that provides comfort...

... the standard dichotomy between rational and historical reconstructions. Most of the time, authors of such pieces disclose their historiographic preferences and provide a rationale for them, pointing to the pitfalls of the methods they feel should be rejected. They may also address the issue of current...

...Georg Eckert The state of Württemberg provides an interesting example for the evolution of economic doctrines. Between 1781 and 1819, in an age of unrelenting reform, Cameralism was enforced here—as the career of Friedrich List shows: starting as a clerk in the administration of Württemberg, he...

...Harris Dellas; George S. Tavlas Evidence about Lloyd Mints’s role in the development of monetary economics at the University of Chicago has proven elusive, with the result that Mints has long been considered a peripheral figure at Chicago. We provide evidence showing that the standard assessment...

...Mary S. Morgan This article investigates the role played by narrative in drawing inferences from statistics before the adoption of formal inference regimes in economics. Two well-known, and exemplary, cases of informal inference provide the materials. Nikolai Kondratiev’s struggles to make...

... attempt to provide “laws of motion” of economic development. Samuelson’s notion of “tractability” may be traced back to Peter Medawar’s well-known definition of science as the “art of the soluble.” Correspondence may be addressed to Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia; by email: mboianovsky...

... Ricardianism and inductivism, provided Mill the opportunity to make an extensive use of factual data before the professionalization of economic history proper in the late nineteenth century. Correspondence may be addressed to Manolis Manioudis, University of Crete, Department of Economics, Sivitanidou 2...