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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:

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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 B. Emmett

Arizona State University, USA

Andrew Farrant

Dickinson College, USA

Nicola Giocoli

University of Pisa, Italy

Harald Hagemann

University of Hohenheim, Germany

Tiago Mata

University College, London, UK

Steven Medema

Duke University, USA

Gary Mongiovi

St. John’s University, USA

Mary Morgan

London School of Economics, London, UK

Maria Pia Paganelli

Trinity University, USA

Gerardo Serra

University of Manchester, UK

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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 41A

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism

Edited by

Luca Fiorito

University of Palermo, Italy

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Scott Scheall

Arizona State University, USA

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Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

American University of Paris, France

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 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. Scott 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 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. Besides numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is also co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017) and Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe (Palgrave, 2020).

List of Contributors

Volume Introduction

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on “Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism,” guest edited by Jordan J. Ballor and Erik W. Matson. The symposium includes contributions from Jimena Hurtado, Maria Pia Paganelli, Paul Oslington, Daniel B. Klein, Christina McRorie, and Paul D. Mueller.

The volume also features a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali that considers Amartya Sen’s interpretation of Piero Sraffa’s work.

Volume 41A also includes a roundtable addressing a new essay by esteemed economist Geoffrey Hodgson in which Hodgson reflects on the role that institutionalist economics has played in his work. The roundtable features contributions from Felipe Almeida, Angela Ambrosino, Daniel H. Cole, Richard N. Langlois, Alain Marciano, and Deirdre McCloskey.

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

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak