emerald PUBLISHING Including a Symposium on New Directions in Sraffa Scholarship: 35, Part B (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 35, Part B)

Volume 35B of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the economics of Piero Sraffa, guest edited by Scott Carter and Riccardo Bellofiore. The symposium includes new research from Professor Carter, as well as from John Davis, Nerio Naldi and Eleonora Lattanzi, Bertram Schefold, Andres Lazzarini and Gabriel Brondino, and Lucia Morra.</div> <div>Volume 35B also features general research contributions from Masazumi Wakatabe, and co-authors Eugene Callahan and Andreas Hoffman.</div> <div>Mary Furner, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Scott Scheall, and Charles R. McCann, Jr. offer unique perspectives on Thomas C. Leonard s (2015) Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Professor Leonard contributes a response essay. Review The symposium features seven papers on recent developments in the scholarly literature about Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa (1898–1983). Among the topics are documents of Sraffa at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato and the Archivio Storico Diplomatico, friendship and intellectual intercourse between Sraffa and Wittgenstein: a timeline, and Sraffa on the open versus closed systems distinction and causality. The general essays cover the Great Depression and macroeconomics reconsidered: the impact of policy and real-world events on economic doctrines, and two-population social cycle theories. A final section presents four reviews of Thomas C. Leonard's Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, and a response from him. -- Annotation ©2018 ― (protoview.com)