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 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. 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 Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit at 100; Ross B. Emmett

Chapter 1. Understanding the Limits of Pure Theory in Economics: Knight and Mises; Per Bylund

Chapter 2. The Unsettled Legacy of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit: A Bibliometric Exploration; Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and Thiago D. Oliveira

Chapter 3. Frank Knight, James Buchanan, and Virginia Political Economy: The Long Shadow of Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit; Richard E. Wagner

Chapter 4. What Can We Learn about Frank Knight’s Economic Theory from the Prefaces to the Reprints of Risk, Uncertainty and Profit?; Ross B. Emmett

Part II: Essays

Chapter 5. Rawls and Knight: Connections and Influence in A Theory of Justice; David C. Coker

Chapter 6. Walter Lippmann and the Austrian School: Towards a Deeper Epistemological Convergence; J. Patrick Higgins

Chapter 7. A Wisconsin Austrian: William Amasa Scott; Charles R. McCann, Jr.