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...Jeremy Shearmur Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and Documents . Edited by Caldwell Bruce . Vol. 13 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 . 331 pp. Cloth $60.00 . Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Jeremy Shearmur The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents; The Definitive Edition. Vol. 2 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek , edited by Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. viii; 283 pp. $15.00. 2008 Book Reviews Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods...

....: Greenwood Press. How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics. By David M. Levy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,2001. 320 pp. $52.50. This collection of essays in three parts,half of them previously published as the author indicates in his...

... on the essential Scottishness of the text, seeing Glasgow as the indispensable intermediary between lowland Scotland's town-and-country dynamics and its insertion into global trading routes. However, Glasgow plays no explicit part in the way Smith chose to construct his arguments. This juxtaposition between...

...David Laidler Business Cycle Theory: Selected Texts, 1860-1939, Part 2. Edited by Mauro Boianovsky. Pickering and Chatto, 2004. £450.00/$750.00. Volume 5: Economic Growth, Technical Change, and Business Cycles ; xxiv; 409 pp. Volume 6: The Accelerator, Overaccumulation...

... theorizing—including Joan’s. Terence Hutchison, Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham Business Cycle Theory: Selected Texts, 1860–1939. Edited by Harald Hagemann. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002. Volume 1: Some Early Classics. xxiii; 322 pp. Volume 2: Structural Theories...

... translation of the Essai made by Cantillon himself through a marquis de Saint-George. It provides a biography of this obscure character and discusses his relationship with both Cantillon and the Marquis de Mirabeau. Then, it examines how Mirabeau used Cantillon's text as a source of inspiration for four...

...Evelyn L. Forget Latin receded as the common language of the Republic of Letters as the eighteenth century unfolded, ushering in a new and expanded role for translation. However, international copyright legislation was nonexistent, which offered translators freedom to take liberties with the text...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract Within the discipline of economics, as within all academic disciplines, scholars produce texts in which they examine, discuss, and sometimes invoke their intellectual predecessors. As historians of economic thought, we are faced with the task of evaluating the readings put...

...-fulfilling prophecies . We use the Alceste software to perform an unsupervised classification of text units according to the pattern of co-occurrences of word tokens within these units. The classification method provides evidence of the early fragmentation of the sunspot literature. To identify alternative...

... affections as an essential means of harmonizing these two dimensions. To prove this point, the article examines several economic texts written before Marshall's major economic treatise, Principles of Economics , the first edition of which appeared in 1890. These texts have received little consideration...

...Jocelyn Hickey Abstract The main references of the social sciences and humanities are texts. Texts are the means by which social scientists communicate their ideas and the means through which we, as readers, access those same ideas. Consequently, reading can be regarded as one of the main tools...

... texts, during his period as director in Madrid of the economics section of the Publishing Aguilar (1945–60). With his work, Torres provided a guide to those responsible for economic policy to introduce the urgent changes needed by the Spanish economy, due to its problems of external deficit, inflation...

...Guy Numa The common narrative about Jean-Baptiste Say’s treatment of money holdings is that he denied the possibility of hoarding. I show that this interpretation of Say’s thinking is erroneous. Drawing upon the various editions of Traité and Cours and other lesser-known texts, I provide...

... and unconvincing. Therefore, it is crucial to understand that it was in the aftermath of the political and economic crisis of the Thirty Years’ War that happiness was established at the core of the foundations of Spanish Imperialism in the 1650s and then again in the 1760s. The text Signs of Happiness by Francesc...

... modern Europe. On the one hand, Quesnay tightly controlled the work of those (the Marquis de Mirabeau, Pattullo, Du Pont de Nemours) who published economic writings, correcting and even rewriting whole parts of their texts. On the other hand, he commanded other writers/individuals to collect data...

... of inter-allied debts. The similarities are no coincidence, since both documents draw mostly from well-known classical and early neoclassical monetary analysis and free trade principles, and partially from Keynes's pre-1936 work. The classical principles are embodied in then-familiar texts by John Stuart...

... economic problem. Beyond sovereignty and economy, justice and the public faith were endangered by those who falsified the currency. Yet, the thesis of this paper is that one cannot understand false money in the early modern period by reading texts of that time with today's understanding of false money...

... of the manuscript, which is shown to be in fact an abridged and annotated version of a fundamental German cameralist text by J. H. G. von Justi, Die Grundfeste zu der Macht und Glückseligkeit der Staaten (1760/61). This finding introduces a reflection on the intricate context of juxtapositions and similarities...

...Yann Giraud Newcomers to the history of economics are often exposed to several texts that try to define the subject, make a case for its usefulness, and present the various methods one can use to establish historical claims. Such pieces introduce a number of methodological divides, for instance...