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Book SynopsisVolume 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.
Table of ContentsPART 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
