...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...

... grounds’: a translation of Jens Warming’s 1911 article, with an introduction Peder Andersen Introduction by Peder Andersen In 1954 the Journal of Political Economy published H. Scott Gordon’s ‘Eco- nomic theory of a common-property resource: the fishery...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Stephen Turner Economy and Society: A New Translation . By Weber Max , edited and translated by Tribe Keith . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2019 . xi ; 520 pp. $24.95 . Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Book Reviews 965 Economy and Society...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... manner, let alone in formal models; so these are not direct translations, but derivations and extrapolations from his discussions and hints. It is suggested only that, by using Marx's insights, combined with the later technical developments of academic economics, one can imagine some consistent models...

... Hong, Xu Yunan, Teng Maotong, Wu Qiyuan. Xu Yunan and Wang Chuanlun prepared a translation of the General Theory in the 1940s, but it was not published until 1957. At Harvard, Keynes's ideas were applied in several doctoral dissertations by Chinese students. H. D. Fong, one of the leaders of the Nankai...

...Paola Tubaro Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen edited the English translation of Hermann Heinrich Gossen’s 1854 book The Laws of Human Relations and wrote a lengthy introduction to it. His highly appreciative, thoroughly documented study has become a major reference on an otherwise little-known early...

...Jonathan S. Franklin By no means exclusive, the tendency of agricultural economists to emphasize the field’s historic commitment to applied economics is nonetheless intriguing and worthy of further exploration. If agricultural economists have demonstrated the ability to translate “practical...