Political events and economic ideas / edited by Ingo Barens, Volker Caspari, Bertram Schefold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Conference (5th : 2001 : Darmstadt, Germany)

Contributor:

Barens, Ingo.

Caspari, Volker.

Schefold, Bertram, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Political aspects--Congresses.

Economics.

Economic policy--Political aspects--Congresses.

Economic policy.

Economics--Political aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 407 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Monetary Theory and Policy Between International Rivalry and Integration

1 From bimetallism to monetarism: the shifting political affiliation of the quantity theory / David Laidler 9

2 Economic and Monetary Union in Europe: political priority versus economic integration? / Otmar Issing 37

3 The political element in monetary theory / Marcello de Cecco 55

4 Monetary reform in France: the French economists and the stabilization of the franc in the 1920s / Cecile Dangel-Hagnauer, Alain Raybaut 70

5 Consequences of a monetary system: German monetary reform, 1948 - the birth of the DM and of a new central bank system and their political and economic implications / Karl Hauser 94

Part II France's Economic Crisis in the Eighteenth Century and the Accompanying Revolution in Political Economy

6 Quesnay's creation of the Tableau economique in response to the economic weakness of France / Walter Eltis 109

7 Power and wealth: Quesnay betrayed by the Tableau economique? / Jean Cartelier 130

8 Structural change and social transformation in physiocracy / Gianni Vaggi 150

9 The kingdom of Ponthiamas - a physiocratic model state in Indochina: a note on the international exchange of economic thought and of concepts for economic reforms in the 18th century / Rainer Klump 173

Part III Co-Evolution of Political Ideas and Economic Thought in Different Countries and Periods

10 Cleomenes III's politico-economic reforms in Sparta (235-222 BC) and Cercidas' economic thought / Christos P. Baloglou 187

11 Economic theory as political philosophy: the example of the French Enlightenment / Jean Cartelier 206

12 Economic theory and economic policy in Italy during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century / Herbert Pruns 226

13 Advocacy of freedom and justification of governmental interference in Western economic thought - the case of two liberal economists: Francesco Ferrara and Henry C. Carey / Daniela Parisi 238

14 The end of an era: the Austrian Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie in the interwar period / Kurt W. Rothschild 247

Part IV Political and Economic Continuity and Discontinuity in Russia

15 Patristic legacies in Russian economic thought and their significance for the transformation of Russia's economy and society / Joachim Zweynert 263

16 Specific interrelations of politics and economics in Russian history / Vladimir Avtonomov 275

Part V Polar Reactions to the Great Depression

17 The Great Depression in Irving Fisher's thought / Giovanni Pavanelli 289

18 Planning for abundance: Nicholas Kaldor and Joan Robinson on the socialist reconstruction of Britain, 1942-45 / J.E. King 306

Part VI The Jerome-Adolphe Blanqui Lecture

19 Harrod's dynamics in the making / Daniele Besomi 327

Part VII The Effects of Political Events on Economic Ideas: A Round-Table Discussion

Marcello de Cecco 355

Walter Eltis 358

David Laidler 365

Bertram Schefold 369

Christian Schmidt 375

Erich W. Streissler 382.

Notes:

Papers presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought held Feb. 22-25, 2001 in Darmstadt, Germany.

"Published with the support of ESHET."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843764407

OCLC:

52601343