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Book SynopsisThe Research in the History of Economic Methodology (RHETM) 34B, includes original research from preeminent scholars in the field. RHETM is one of the oldest and most respected publications in the field, and the Vol 34B is crucial for economists, methodologists, and historians of the social sciences.
Trade ReviewEditors Fiorito, Scheall, and Suprinyak present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles investigating current and emerging research in the history economic thought and methodology. The editors have organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in three parts devoted to a symposium on the work of Albert O. Hirschman in development economics, essays on development economics, and J. M. Keynes’s lectures on Fisher in 1909. Luca Fiorito is a faculty member of the University of Palermo, Italy. Scott Scheall is a faculty member of the Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus in Arizona. Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is a faculty member of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. -- Annotation ©2016 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsPART I: A SYMPOSIUM ON ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN Introduction - Marina Bianchi and Maurizio Franzini Albert O. Hirschman and the Rise and Decline of Development Economics - Michele Alacevich In Praise of Small: Albert O. Hirschman and the Question of Scale - Jeremy Adelman The Contemporary Significance of a Dissenter: Albert O. Hirschman’s Idea of Development - Andrea Ginzburg Models and Misperceptions: Chenery, Hirschman and Tinbergen on Development Planning - Neil De Marchi Albert O. Hirschman and the Structuralist-Monetarist Debate in Latin America - Ana Maria Bianchi Homo Politicus: Reflections on the Passions and the Interests - Ruth W. Grant Shifting Values: Private Concerns Versus Public Action - Marina Bianchi “Good and Bad” (Not “Good or Bad”): Albert O. Hirschman as a Behavioral Economist - Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap Spanning Exit and Voice: Albert O. Hirschman’s Contribution to Political Science - Peter John and Keith Dowding Efficient Institutions: The Role of Exit and Voice - Maurizio Franzini PART II: ESSAYS Robert Franklin Hoxie: The Contributions of a Neglected Chicago Economist - Charles R. McCann, JR. and Vibha Kapuria-Foreman The Mises-Knight Theory of Uncertainty and Its Implications for Entrepreneurship, Equilibrium, and the Theory of the Firm - Per L. Bylund and G. P. Manish The Road Less Traveled: Monetary Disequilibrium, Austrian Capital Theory, and the “Keynesian Diversion” - Scott Burns PART III: FROM THE VAULT J. M. Keynes’s Lectures on Fisher in 1909 - Carlo Cristiano
