Editing Economics

Hank Lim is Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics at the National University of Singapore. Ungsuh K. Park is President and CEO of Kohap Ltd., Korea. G. C. Harcourt is Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide.

Introduction PART I An evaluation of Mark Perlman’s written contributions 1 The participant observer in the formation of economic thought: Summa Deconomiae Perlmanansis PART II Editing and intolerance in the profession 2 Parallels and differences in editing academic journals; Mark Perlman as a pioneer and role model 3 Pastiches from an earlier politically incorrect academic age PART III Economic, political and social systems 4 Communitarianism and welfare state dynamics:a European perspective 5 The inevitable price of totalitarianism: an economist’s perspective 6 Communitarianism and the individual 7 East Asian economic crisis and the communitarian development model PART IV History of economic theory 8 Knut Wicksell as a classic and as a social thinker 9 On Klant’s methodology and the natural order in Adam Smith PART V Economic theory 10 Has capital theory been the victim of the quest for generality and rigor? 11 Evolutionary economics, its basic concepts and methods. A tribute to Mark Perlman, Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics 1991–96 12 Growth and social welfare with interdependent utility functions 13 New perspectives on the role of the state PART VI Applied economics 14 Germany and Europe since 1947 15 Free and open trade in the Asia Pacific: a new economic regionalism 16 East Asia through a glass darkly: disparate lenses on the road to Damascus