Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Including a Symposium on the work of François Perroux
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Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist François Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha, and a collection of book reviews of David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart’s (2020) Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School.
PART I. A SYMPOSIUM ON FRANÇOIS PERROUX; Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha
- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Symposium: François Perroux: Challenges of Portraying a Complex Character; Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha
- Chapter 2. The Party and the Laboratory: François Perroux in Authoritarian and Democratic Rule; Antonin Cohen
- Chapter 3. Learning and Forgetting Marx’s Lesson: François Perroux’s Readings of Karl Marx; Raphaël Fèvre, Nicolas Brisset, and Pierre Jean
- Chapter 4. Maurice Byé and François Perroux: Convergences and Divergences of Two Catholic Economists; Alain Alcouffe
- Chapter 5. Did François Perroux Revise the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium?; Richard Arena
- Chapter 6. Bringing Perroux Back In: Development Pole Strategies in Italy and Brazil; Annalisa Caloffi and Mauricio Serra
- Chapter 7. The Archives of François Perroux Deposited at the Institute Mémoires De L’édition Contemporaine; Christiane Franck
- PART II: A COLLECTION OF REVIEWS OF DAVID M. LEVY AND SANDRA J. PEART'S TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF NATURAL EQUALS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE EARLY VIRGINIA SCHOOL
- Chapter 8. Why was the Virginia School Stillborn?; David Colander
- Chapter 9. Trees do not Vote: Gordon Tullock’s Case for Democracy Unchained?; Andrew Farrant
- Chapter 10. The Political Economist: Between Truth-Seeking and Political Engagement; Jean-Baptiste Fleury
- Chapter 11. Responses to Commentators; David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
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.