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 FRANÇOIS PERROUX; Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Symposium: François Perroux: Challenges of Portraying a Complex Character; Katia Caldari and Alexandre Mendes Cunha

Chapter 2. The Party and the Laboratory: François Perroux in Authoritarian and Democratic Rule; Antonin Cohen

Chapter 3. Learning and Forgetting Marx’s Lesson: François Perroux’s Readings of Karl Marx; Raphaël Fèvre, Nicolas Brisset, and Pierre Jean

Chapter 4. Maurice Byé and François Perroux: Convergences and Divergences of Two Catholic Economists; Alain Alcouffe

Chapter 5. Did François Perroux Revise the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium?; Richard Arena

Chapter 6. Bringing Perroux Back In: Development Pole Strategies in Italy and Brazil; Annalisa Caloffi and Mauricio Serra

Chapter 7. The Archives of François Perroux Deposited at the Institute Mémoires De L’édition Contemporaine; Christiane Franck

PART II: A COLLECTION OF REVIEWS OF DAVID M. LEVY AND SANDRA J. PEART'S TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF NATURAL EQUALS: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE EARLY VIRGINIA SCHOOL

Chapter 8. Why was the Virginia School Stillborn?; David Colander

Chapter 9. Trees do not Vote: Gordon Tullock’s Case for Democracy Unchained?; Andrew Farrant

Chapter 10. The Political Economist: Between Truth-Seeking and Political Engagement; Jean-Baptiste Fleury

Chapter 11. Responses to Commentators; David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart