Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Including a Symposium on David Gordon: American Radical Economist
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Volume 40A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the radical economist David Gordon, edited by our own Luca Fiorito and featuring contributions from Nancy Breen, Richard McGahey, Robert Pollin, and Jim Stanford. The Volume also includes new general-research essays from Felix Schroeter, Ana Paula Londe Silva, and Seun Okunade.
PART I: A SYMPOSIUM ON DAVID GORDON: AMERICAN RADICAL ECONOMIST
- Chapter 1. Introduction; Luca Fiorito
- Chapter 2. David M. Gordon: Pathbreaking Radical Political Economist; Nancy Breen
- Chapter 3. Cities and Capitalism: David Gordon’s Work on Urban Economies; Richard Mcgahey
- Chapter 4. The Flimsy Foundations of Neoliberal Macroeconomics: David Gordon on Saving, Investment and the Natural Rate of Unemployment; Robert Pollin
- Chapter 5. Carrots, Sticks, and Gigs: Social Structures, Labour Extraction, and Platform Work; Jim Stanford
- PART II: ESSAYS
- Chapter 6. John Bates Clark and the Normative Foundations of Early Neoclassicism; Felix Schroeter
- Chapter 7. Adam Smith on Colonial Slavery: The ‘Love Of Domination’ in a Mercantile System; Ana Paula Londe Silva
- Chapter 8. Reading Indigenous African Economies through Production and Exchange: Pre-Colonial Yorubaland and Articles of Trade; Seun Adedokun Okunade
Luca Fiorito received his PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently Professor at the University of Palermo. His main area of interest is the history of American economic thought in the Progressive Era and the interwar years.
Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of economics.
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He specializes in the history of political economy, exploring the intersections between economics and politics in different historical contexts, from early modern England to Cold War Latin America.