Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Including a Symposium On the Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models
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The centerpiece of Volume 40B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is a symposium on the work of William Baumol, edited by Erwin Dekker. The symposium includes contributions from Alex Tabarrok, Jochen Hartwig and Hagen M. Krämer, Alexandre Chirat, Victor A. Beker, Caroline Colton, Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula, and Anna Noci. Volume 40B also features new general-research essays from Juan Pablo Castilla and Fabrizio Bientinesi.
PART I: A Symposium on the Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models; Erwin Dekker
- Chapter 1. Introduction - The Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models; Erwin Dekker
- Chapter 2. William Baumol and the Cost Disease; Alex Tabarrok
- Chapter 3. Baumol’s Cost Disease in Times of Rising Income Inequality; Jochen Hartwig and Hagen M. Krämer
- Chapter 4. The Correspondence between Baumol and Galbraith (1957–1958): An Unsuspected Source of Managerial Theories of the Firm; Alexandre Chirat
- Chapter 5. Baumol´s Contribution to Telecommunications Regulation; Victor A. Beker
- Chapter 6. William Baumol and Contestability: From AT&T to Platforms; Caroline Colton
- Chapter 7. William J. Baumol: Innovative Contributor to Entrepreneurship Economics; Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula
- Chapter 8. So, What did Marx ‘Really’ mean? The Methodenstreit between Baumol and Samuelson on the History of Economic Thought; Anna Noci
- PART II: Essays
- Chapter 9. To Kill a Black Swan: The Credibility Revolution at Cede, 2000-2018; Juan Pablo Castilla
- Chapter 10. A Bias for Bias? The Impact of “Authoritarian” Politics as shown by Italian International Trade Debate Experience, 1913-1942; Fabrizio Bientinesi
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.