Prelims

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on the Work of François Perroux

ISBN: 978-1-80382-716-2, eISBN: 978-1-80382-715-5

ISSN: 0743-4154

Publication date: 30 November 2022

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(2022), "Prelims", Fiorito, L., Scheall, S. and Suprinyak, C.E. (Ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on the Work of François Perroux (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 40C), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542022000040C020

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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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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 B. Emmett

    Arizona State University, USA

  • Andrew Farrant

    Dickinson College, USA

  • Nicola Giocoli

    University of Pisa, Italy

  • Harald Hagemann

    University of Hohenheim, Germany

  • Tiago Mata

    University College, London, UK

  • Steven Medema

    Duke University, USA

  • Gary Mongiovi

    St. John’s University, USA

  • Mary Morgan

    London School of Economics, London, UK

  • Maria Pia Paganelli

    Trinity University, USA

  • Gerardo Serra

    University of Manchester, UK

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RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY VOLUME 40C

RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY: INCLUDING A SYMPOSIUM ON THE WORK OF FRANÇOIS PERROUX

EDITED BY

LUCA FIORITO

University of Palermo, Italy

SCOTT SCHEALL

Arizona State University, USA

AND

CARLOS EDUARDO SUPRINYAK

American University of Paris, France

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

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Contents

About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Volume Introduction xiii
PART I: A SYMPOSIUM ON FRANÇOIS PERROUX
Edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha
Introduction to the Symposium: François Perroux: Challenges of Portraying a Complex Character
Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha 3
The Party and the Laboratory: François Perroux in Authoritarian and Democratic Rule
Antonin Cohen 35
Learning and Forgetting Marx’s Lesson: François Perroux’s Readings of Karl Marx
Nicolas Brisset, Raphaël Fèvre and Pierre Jean 81
Maurice Byé and François Perroux: Convergences and Divergences of Two Catholic Economists
Alain Alcouffe 109
Did François Perroux Revise the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium?
Richard Arena 127
Bringing Perroux Back in: Development Pole Strategies in Italy and Brazil
Annalisa Caloffi and Mauricio Serra 145
The Archives of François Perroux Deposited at the Institut Mémoires De L’édition Contemporaine
Christiane Franck 169
PART II: A COLLECTION OF REVIEWS OF DAVID M. LEVY AND SANDRA J. PEART’S TOWARD AN ECONOMICS OF NATURAL EQUALS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE EARLY VIRGINIA SCHOOL
Why was the Virginia School Stillborn?
David Colander 185
Trees do not Vote: Gordon Tullock’s Case for Democracy Unchained?
Andrew Farrant 195
The Political Economist: Between Truth-Seeking and Political Engagement
Jean-Baptiste Fleury 213
Responses to Our Commentators
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart 233

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 in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of Economics. He is the author of F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Routledge, 2020).

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He specializes in the history of political economy, exploring the intersections between economics and politics in different historical contexts, from early modern England to Cold War Latin America. Besides numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, he is also co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017) and Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe (Palgrave, 2020).

List of Contributors

Alain Alcouffe Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Richard Arena Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Nicolas Brisset Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
Katia Caldari University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Annalisa Caloffi University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Antonin Cohen Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France
David Colander Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA
Alexandre Mendes Cunha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and the Moritz-Stern-Institut, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Andrew Farrant Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA
Raphaël Fèvre Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
Luca Fiorito University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Jean-Baptiste Fleury THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France
Christiane Franck University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France
Pierre Jean Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France
David M. Levy George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Sandra J. Peart University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
Scott Scheall Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ, USA
Mauricio Serra University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak American University of Paris, Paris, France

Volume Introduction

Volume 40C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on the work of the controversial French economist François Perroux, edited by Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha. The symposium includes contributions from Antonin Cohen, Raphaël Fèvre, Nicolas Brisset, Pierre Jean, Alain Alcouffe, Richard Arena, Annalisa Caloffi, Mauricio Serra, and Christiane Franck.

The volume also features a collection of book reviews of David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart’s (2020) Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School. David Colander, Andrew Farrant, and Jean-Baptiste Fleury offer their perspectives on the book. The authors present their responses in a rejoinder.

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

Luca Fiorito

Scott Scheall

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak