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 Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism; Jordan J. Ballor and Erik W. Matson

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Symposium: Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism; Jordan J. Ballor and Erik W. Matson

Chapter 2. Believing, Belonging and Understanding: Religion and Philosophy as Narratives and Practice in Adam Smith; Jimena Hurtado

Chapter 3. Adam Smith and Religious Mercantilism; Maria Pia Paganelli

Chapter 4. The Quest for Adam Smith’s Theodicy; Paul Oslington

Chapter 5. The Circumstantiality of Bivariate Relationships in The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Daniel B. Klein

Chapter 6. The Anthropology of Liberalism: Smith and Us; Christina McRorie

Chapter 7. Opposing Sketches of the Clergy as Literati during the Scottish Enlightenment: Hugh Blair and John Witherspoon; Paul D. Mueller

PART II: Essay

Chapter 8. Description as Theory: Sen and Sraffa; Syed Mohib Ali

PART III: Roundtable on Geoffrey Hodgson's "Discovering Institutionalism: One Person's Journey"

Chapter 9. Discovering Institutionalism: One Person’s Journey; Geoffrey Hodgson

Chapter 10. Geoffrey Hodgson’s Institutional Economics: Veblenian Origins and Beyond; Felipe Almeida

Chapter 11. Can Institutional Economics Still Fascinate Scholars?; Angela Ambrosino

Chapter 12. Why is Geoffrey Hodgson So Important for Institutional and Evolutionary Economics? Some Personal Views; Olivier Brette

Chapter 13. Geoffrey Hodgson: An Institutionalist's Institutionalist; Daniel H. Cole

Chapter 14. Comment on “Discovering Institutionalism: One Person’s Journey” by Geoff Hodgson; Richard N. Langlois

Chapter 15. Learning Economics. Discovering Geoff Hodgson; Alain Marciano

Chapter 16. The Three Scientific Faults in Some Neo-Institutionalism; Deirdre McCloskey