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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY: INCLUDING A SYMPOSIUM ON BRUCE CALDWELL’S BEYOND POSITIVISM AFTER 35 YEARS

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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 36A

RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY: INCLUDING A SYMPOSIUM ON BRUCE CALDWELL’S BEYOND POSITIVISM AFTER 35 YEARS

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LUCA FIORITO

University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

SCOTT SCHEALL

Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ, USA

CARLOS EDUARDO SUPRINYAK

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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List of Contributors

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

• Pedro Garcia Duarte

  University of São Paulo, Brazil

• Till Düppe

  Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

• Ross Emmett

  Arizona State University, USA

• Mary Furner

  University of California Santa Barbara, USA

• Nicola Giocoli

  University of Pisa, Italy

• Harald Hagemann

  University of Hohenheim, Germany

• 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

About the Editors

Luca Fiorito received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently an associate 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 a Lecturer with Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Arizona State in 2012. Scott is a former research fellow with Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy and a former postdoctoral fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University. He has published extensively on the history and methodology of the Austrian School of economics.

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the history of economic thought and economic methodology, studying in particular the interplay between social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of academic economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and other related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and is also the coeditor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017).

Volume Introduction

We are delighted to present Volume 36A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, the first of three volumes planned for 2018. The centerpiece of the volume is a symposium on the impact after 35 years of Beyond Positivism, Bruce Caldwell’s influential 1982 book on economic methodology. The symposium features several significant contributors to the methodological literature of the past four decades, including Kevin Hoover, Wade Hands, Tony Lawson, and Peter Boettke. Professor Caldwell responds.

Our general-research section includes a review of recent methodological literature by Luis Mireles-Flores as well as Alain Marciano’s methodological account of the Stiglerian nature of “Stigler’s Coase Theorem.”

Last, RHETM coeditor Luca Fiorito offers an archival piece culled from the papers of Frank Knight and John Maurice Clark that sheds light on several matters, including their published controversy concerning the significance of the so-called adding-up theorem.

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

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