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. 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. 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.

PART I: A Symposium on the Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models; Erwin Dekker

Chapter 1. Introduction - The Work of William J. Baumol: Heterodox Inspirations and Neoclassical Models; Erwin Dekker

Chapter 2. William Baumol and the Cost Disease; Alex Tabarrok

Chapter 3. Baumol’s Cost Disease in Times of Rising Income Inequality; Jochen Hartwig and Hagen M. Krämer

Chapter 4. The Correspondence between Baumol and Galbraith (1957–1958): An Unsuspected Source of Managerial Theories of the Firm; Alexandre Chirat

Chapter 5. Baumol´s Contribution to Telecommunications Regulation; Victor A. Beker

Chapter 6. William Baumol and Contestability: From AT&T to Platforms; Caroline Colton

Chapter 7. William J. Baumol: Innovative Contributor to Entrepreneurship Economics; Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula

Chapter 8. So, What did Marx ‘Really’ mean? The Methodenstreit between Baumol and Samuelson on the History of Economic Thought; Anna Noci

PART II: Essays

Chapter 9. To Kill a Black Swan: The Credibility Revolution at Cede, 2000-2018; Juan Pablo Castilla

Chapter 10. A Bias for Bias? The Impact of “Authoritarian” Politics as shown by Italian International Trade Debate Experience, 1913-1942; Fabrizio Bientinesi