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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY

Founding Editor: Warren J. Samuels (1933–2011)

Series Editors: Luca Fiorito, Scott Scheall, and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

Recent Volumes:

Editorial Board

Michele Alacevich

University of Bologna, Italy

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

University of Lumière Lyon 2, France

John Davis

Marquette University, USA; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Till Düppe

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Ross Emmett

Arizona State University, USA

Andrew Farrant

Dickinson College, USA

Mary Furner

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Nicola Giocoli

University of Pisa, Italy

Harald Hagemann

University of Hohenheim, Germany

Tiago Mata

University College, London, UK

Steven Medema

University of Colorado Denver, USA

Gary Mongiovi

St. John’s University, USA

Mary Morgan

London School of Economics, London, UK

Maria Pia Paganelli

Trinity University, USA

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Research in The History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 38B

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Economists and Authoritarian Regimes in the 20th Century

EDITED BY

LUCA FIORITO

University of Palermo, Italy

SCOTT SCHEALL

Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, USA

CARLOS EDUARDO SUPRINYAK

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

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. He is the author of F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Routledge, 2020).

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, 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).

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Volume Introduction

Volume 38B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the variety of experiences of professional economists who lived and worked in different authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century. The symposium is guest-edited by Federico D’Onofrio and Gerardo Serra, two authorities on the subject, and features contributions from several experts on the history of economics as practiced in particular regimes. José Luís Cardoso writes about economists under the Salazar regime in Portugal; Nicolas Brisset and Raphaël Fèvre consider Francois Perroux’s work in Vichy France; Till Düppe and Sarah Joly-Simard discuss Stalin’s surprising pluralism about economic thought and how it served as cover for his dictatorial tyranny; and Doriana Matraku Dervishi and Marianne Johnson write about the concept of isolation in the economics of Enver Hoxha’s Albania. Tinashe Nyamunda considers the African context in his paper on the work of economist Jan L. Sadie in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s. Turning to South America, Elisa Grandi discusses the World Bank’s role in Gustavo Rojas Pinilla’s post-coup government in Colombia, while Alexandre Andrada and Mauro Boianovsky address the income distribution controversy that arose during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.

The volume also features a new general-research essay by Reinhard Schumacher and our own Scott Scheall that discusses Karl Menger’s partial and incomplete biography of his father, and provides new, previously unknown, details concerning Carl Menger’s life.

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

The Editors of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology