Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

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 Universitys 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. Scott 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 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 papers 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).

Part I: A Selection of Papers Presented at the 2019 Alahpe ConferenceChapter 1. Introduction; Felipe Almeida, and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak  
Chapter 2. Samuelson on Populist Democracy, Fascist Capitalism and the Vicissitudes of South American Economic Development (1948-1997); Mauro Boianovsky
Chapter 3. Finance Capital, State Transformation and Crisis Regulation: The Contribution of Rudolf Hilferding; Matari Pierre Manigat
Chapter 4. Inflation and Underdevelopment: Ideas from the Creation of Eclac; Patrick Fontaine
Chapter 5. Samuelson Turnpike and Optimal Growth Theory, 1940s -- 1960s; Hugo Chu
Chapter 6. A History of the Trajectory of Kirzners Economic Thought towards the Consolidation of his Theory of Entrepreneurship; Lucas Casonato, and Eduardo Angeli
Chapter 7. Oreste Popescus Contributions to the History of Economic Thought of Latin America: An Expanded View; Melisa J. Luc
PART II: Essay
Chapter 8. “We can get a Coup”: Warren Nutter and the Overthrow of Salvador Allende; Daniel Kuehn
PART III: From the Vault
Chapter 9. A Curiosity Form the Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers: Fay on Marshall and Some “Controversial Matter”; Katia Caldari, and Luca Fiorito
PART IV: Review
Chapter 10. Review of Recharting the History of Economic Thought; John Hall