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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

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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY VOLUME 34B

RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY

EDITED BY

LUCA FIORITO

University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

SCOTT SCHEALL

Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus, Phoenix, AZ, USA

CARLOS EDUARDO SUPRINYAK

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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

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ISBN: 978-1-78560-962-6

ISSN: 0743-4154 (Series)

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Editorial Board

Michele Alacevich

Loyola University Maryland, USA

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

University of Lumière Lyon 2, France

John Davis

Marquette University, USA; University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pedro Garcia Duarte

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Till Düppe

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Ross Emmett

Michigan State University, USA

Nicola Giocoli

University of Pisa, Italy

Craufurd Goodwin

Duke University, USA

Kyu Sang Lee

Ajou University, South Korea

Tiago Mata

University College, London, UK

Steven Medema

University of Colorado Denver, USA

Maria Pia Paganelli

Trinity University, USA

Volume Introduction

In this issue, our second of 2016, we are proud to present a symposium on the work of the famed political economist Albert O. Hirschman. Edited by Marina Bianchi and Maurizio Franzini, the symposium collects several papers first presented at a conference held in Hirschman’s honor in Rome in the fall of 2014. Contributors to the symposium include Hirschman biographer Jeremy Adelman, the political scientist and philosopher Ruth W. Grant, historian of development economics (and RHETM editorial-board member) Michele Alacevich, eminent political scientists Peter John and Keith Dowding, and the distinguished historian of economic thought Neil De Marchi. We expect the symposium to make a prominent mark on the expanding field of Hirschman scholarship.

The present issue also features several excellent general research contributions. Charles R. McCann, Jr. and Vibha Kapuria-Foreman investigate the unduly forgotten work of the American Institutionalist and early labor economist Robert Franklin Hoxie. Per L. Bylund and G. P. Manish compare Frank H. Knight and Ludwig von Mises on the subject of uncertainty, and consider the implications of Knight and Mises for the theories of entrepreneurship, equilibrium, and the firm. In another essay that, like Bylund and Manish’s contribution, we were, with disappointment, unable to accommodate in our recent symposium on The Postwar Austrian Diaspora (see RHETM Volume 34A), Scott Burns argues for a synthesis of the Austrian and monetary-disequilibrium theories of the business cycle.

Our “From the Vault” section features archival material from the pen of John Maynard Keynes. Carlo Cristiano discusses and, for the first time, makes available Keynes’ 1909 lecture notes on Irving Fisher’s Appreciation and Interest (1896) and The Rate of Interest (1907).

To close, as always, we thank the members of the staff at Emerald Publishing Group, who work unendingly and without hesitation to lighten our editorial burdens.

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

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