Including a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100

Luca Fiorito|Scott Scheall|Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 37C features a symposium celebrating the centenary of the influential economist and historian of economic thought Robert Heilbroner. Luca Fiorito, Harald Hagemann, Edward Nell, and Steven Pressman contribute to the symposium. The volume also features original general-research contributions from Samuel Hollander and Luca Fiorito, as well as a new discovery of material made by Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay and Marianne Johnson from the archives of Richard A. Musgrave.

PART I: A SYMPOSIUM ON ROBERT HEILBRONER AT 100 1. Introduction to a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100; Luca Fiorito 2. Two Worldly Philosophers: Robert Heilbroner and Adolph Lowe; Harald Hagemann 3. Heilbroner on Capital and Capitalism (But Overlooking Finance); Edward Nell 4. Robert Heilbroner and Keynesian Public Finance; Steven Pressman PART II: ESSAYS 5. On Karl Marx's Evolutionary Credentials and the Marx-Mill Intellectual Relationship; Samuel Hollander 6. Social Stratification, Hereditarianism, and Eugenics: A Harvard Tale; Luca Fiorito PART III: FROM THE VAULT 7. "The Fiscal Policy Seminar: Its Early Stages" by Richard A. Musgrave; Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay and Marianne Johnson

This volume brings together three papers from a symposium on the work of Robert Heilbroner, along with additional essays. Former students and colleagues from Europe, North America, and Brazil reflect on the contributions of the New School economist and historian of economic thought and discuss the relationship between Heilbroner and his mentor Adolphe Lowe, Heilbroner in the context of the American debate on government spending, and his views on capitalism. The volume also includes a new essay on Karl Marx's evolutionary credentials and the intellectual relationship between Marx and John Stuart Mill, an essay on the role of eugenicist thinking among Harvard economists into the interwar period, and a new archival discovery: Richard Musgrave's reflections on Alvin Hansen and John Williams' Fiscal Policy Seminar at Harvard, from 1988.
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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. He has published many works on the contributions of the institutionalists and on the relationship between economics and eugenics.

Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University's College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, as well as Project Director for the History of Economic Thought in Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. 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 Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the history and methodology of economics, studying the interplay of social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017).