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 Selection of Papers Presented at the First History of Economics Diversity Caucus Conference Edited by The History of Economics Diversity Caucus

Chapter 1. Women Migrant Workers and Market Forces: Towards an inter-disciplinary representation of female labour migration; Nadeera Rajapakse

Chapter 2. Paul Singer’s Solidarity Economy: A Practical Experience with a Recycling Cooperative in Goiás, Brazil; Jaqueline Vilas Boas Talga, and Tiago Camarinha Lopes

Chapter 3. The Entrepreneur between Two Circuits: The Critical Contribution of Milton Santos to Entrepreneurship Studies; Rafael Galvão de Almeida and Harley Silva

Chapter 4. “My Well-Being is (not) as Important as Yours”: Self-Sacrifice as Further Economic Motive in Amartya Sen’s Thought; Valentina Erasmo

Chapter 5. Witches and Exorcists: A Case Study of an Under-Studied Informal Economy in Post-Colonial Latin America; Cynthia Hawkinson

Chapter 6. Helen Laura Sumner and the Woman Suffrage Movement; Vibha Kapuria-Foreman and Charles R. McCann, Jr.

Chapter 7. Grassroots Feminist Economic Thought: A Reconstruction from the Working-Class Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970’s Britain; Toru Yamamori

PART II. Essays

Chapter 8. Albert Hirschman, Lauchlin Currie, 'linkages' theory, and Paul Rosenstein Rodan's 'Big Push'; Roger J Sandilands

Chapter 9. An American Economist in a Developmental State: Marion Clawson and Israeli Agricultural Policy, 1953-1955; Daniel Schiffman and Eli Goldstein

PART III. From the Vault

Chapter 10. An Interview with Francis Wilson; Phillip Magness and Micha Gartz