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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:

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 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

• Gary Mongiovi

  St. John’s University, USA

• Mary Morgan

  London School of Economics, London, UK

• Maria Pia Paganelli

  Trinity University, USA

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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY VOLUME 37C

RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY

Including a Symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100

EDITED BY

LUCA FIORITO

University of Palermo, Italy

SCOTT SCHEALL

Arizona State University, USA

CARLOS EDUARDO SUPRINYAK

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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

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ISSN: 0743-4154 (Series)

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 and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, as well as Project Director for the History of Economic Thought in Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy 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 and methodology of economics, studying the interplay of social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several articles on these and related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017).

List of Contributors

Introduction

Volume 37C, the third and final volume of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology to be published in 2019 features a symposium on the work of Robert Heilbroner on the occasion of his centenary. Former students and/or colleagues Luca Fiorito, Harald Hagemann, Edward Nell, and Steven Pressman share their reflections on the contributions of the influential New School economist and historian of economic thought, who passed away in 2005.

The volume also features a new essay by Samuel Hollander on “Karl Marx’s Evolutionary Credentials and the Marx–Mill Intellectual Relationship,” as well as Fiorito’s “Social Stratification, Hereditarianism, and Eugenics. A Harvard Tale,” an examination of the role that eugenicist thinking continued to play among Harvard economists well into the interwar period.

Finally, the current volume includes a new archival discovery from Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay and Marianne Johnson, namely Richard Musgrave’s reflections on Alvin Hansen and John Williams’ Fiscal Policy Seminar at Harvard, originally prepared for the 50th anniversary of the Seminar in 1988.

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

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