...Stephen Turner Book Reviews 965 Economy and Society: A New Translation. By Max Weber, edited and translated by Keith Tribe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. xi; 520 pp. $24.95. Keith Tribe is a scrupulous translator as well as a scholar of translation, so having him take...

...Werner Hochwald BOOK REVIEWS Dialogue in Political Economy: Translations From and Into German in the Eighteenth Century. By Kenneth E. Carpenter. Boston: Kress Library Publications Number 23, 1977. Pp. viii, 95. $5.00. The Kress Library, under the direction of its...

...Peder Andersen Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 History of Political Economy 1.5:3 0 1983 by Duke University Press ‘On rent of fishing grounds’: a translation of Jens Warming’s...

...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...

...Charles Camic This article considers the early intellectual career of Thorstein Veblen through the lens of his hitherto neglected 1895 English translation of System der Finanzwissenschaft (1889), an eight-hundred-page treatise on public finance by Gustav Cohn, a German historical economist of high...

... economics as a translation error: an essay on Keynes’ financial theory Edward Miller Owing to a simple translation error, much of Keynes’ monetary and finan- cial theory has been misunderstood. Keynes defined money in the British way to include all bank deposits, while his American...

... 1776-1843 . New York: The Bibliographical Society of America. Desrenaudes, Martial Borye. 1802 . Review of Germain Garnier's translation of The Wealth of Nations. La Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique , no. 36, 17 September. de Staël, Germaine. 1807 . Corinne, ou de l'Italie...

...Laurie Bréban; Jean Dellemotte This essay examines Grouchy’s translation of the Theory of Moral Sentiments along with her critical commentary on Smith’s moral philosophy: The Letters on Sympathy . In this paper, we analyze these two pieces as a whole and build on Grouchy’s commentary in order...

...Lars Magnusson Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy . By Reinert Sophus A. . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2011 . 456 pp. Hardcover $55.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews At the Edge of Camelot...

...Anthony Brewer An Essay on Economic Theory: An English Translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce en général . Translated by Saucier Chantal . Edited by Thornton Mark . Auburn, Ala. : Ludwig von Mises Institute , 2010 . 251 pp. Paper $15.00...

...Giancarlo de Vivo; Gabriel Sabbagh The main aim of this article is to identify the first translator in English of Turgot’s Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses , one of the most important economic works of all time. The translation, which appeared in book form in 1793...

...Nathalie Sigot This article aims to understand the reasons why, in 1828, Jeremy Bentham's Defence of Usury was translated into French by Saint-Amand Bazard, one of the two leaders of the Saint-Simonians, even though it had already been translated twice, in 1790. Addressing this issue enables us...

...Kenneth E. Carpenter; Fritz Redlich Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Research Possibilities in the History of Political Economy Through a Bibliography of Translations Kenneth E. Carpenter and Fritz Redlich WHENLatin...

...Giandomenica Becchio This article deals with the contents of the second edition of Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics (1923), which was neither reprinted in German by Hayek in 1934 nor translated into English by Knight in 1950. My aim is to show that a new Mengerian economic agent can be found...

...Vítězslav Sommer The article explores the effort by economists and economic journalists in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s to translate economic knowledge to the political language of reform communism. Czechoslovak economists aimed to cultivate public understanding of economic issues and to disseminate...

... reipublicae ,” which has been freely translated as the healing power of society. This article aims to explain the meaning and significance given by Malthus in his theory of population to these two concepts. Their essential role in preventing or remedying overpopulation does not seem to have received adequate...

...Adrian Pabst; Roberto Scazzieri Antonio Genovesi’s economic-political treatise on civil economy was a major contribution to debates in the mid-and late eighteenth century on the nature of political economy. At that time, Genovesi’s book was extensively translated and discussed across continental...

... be said that good travelers may have a correct understanding of Western theory, and that their translations are faithful, yielding the knowledge they transmitted with integrity. But travelers confronted the problems of trading off faithful and significant knowledge transmissions. Such conundrums can...

... of Adam Smith: Jacob Viner's reading of Smith's invisible hand as God and Paul Samuelson's reading of the same three words as an allocative mechanism that translates an individual's “selfish” actions into the public good or “the best good of all” within a state of perfect competition. These distinct...