Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Including a Symposium on Sir James Steuart: the Political Economy of Money and Trade.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Including a Symposium on Sir James Steuart: the Political Economy of Money and Trade.

Volume 38C features a symposium on the economic thought of Sir James Steuart. In addition, the volume contains new general-research essays on Milton Friedman's 1975 visit to Chile, Keynes and Pigou on employment and equilibrium, and a brief correspondence between Karl Popper and Leonard Savage.

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Main Author: Fiorito, Luca
Other Authors: Scheall, Scott, Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020
Series:Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Ser.
Subjects:
Economics > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Editors
  • EDITORIAL BOARD
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the Editors
  • List of Contributors
  • Volume Introduction
  • PART I: A SYMPOSIUM ON SIR JAMES STEUART: THE POLITICALECONOMY OF MONEY AND TRADE
  • Chapter 1: Sir James Steuart: Money, Trade, and Politics
  • Introduction to the Symposium "Sir James Steuart: The Political Economy of Money and Trade"
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Steuart, Smith and the "System of Commerce"
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Steuart and Smith on International Trade
  • 3. Steuart and Monetary Theory
  • 4. Steuart and the "System of Commerce"
  • 5. Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Construction of James Steuart's Monetary Theory
  • Introduction
  • 1. Steuart's Banking Theory and its Two Interpretations
  • 2. Steuart's Manuscripts of Principles of Political Œconomy, Book 3
  • 2.1. Alteration in Steuart's Plan for Principles of Political OEconomy
  • 2.2. Expansion in Steuart's Banking Theory
  • 3. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: On the Dangers of Public Credit for France's Monarchy: How an Old Warning Sheds a Certain Light on 1789
  • Introduction
  • Steuart's Economic Philosophy at the Crossroads of Skepticism, Substantivity, and Rhetoric
  • Sir James Steuart's Opinions on Public Credit
  • How the Situation of Public Credit in France Had Changed Between 1759 and 1789
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Sir James Steuart on the "Infancy of Banking": Financial System and Economic Development
  • 1. Steuart's Theory of Development: The Emergence of Commercial Nations
  • 2. Developing Countries: The Transition to Commercial Nation
  • 3. The Banking System
  • 4. Banking in its Infancy
  • 5. Final Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 6: An Unorthodox Genealogy on the Relation Between the Markets for Currency Exchange and Credit in Steuart, Thornton, Tooke, and Keynes (1923)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. James Steuart: "To Borrow Abroad, and Give Credit at Home"
  • 3. Henry Thornton: "The Readiness of Foreigners to Speculate in the Exchange"
  • 4. Thomas Tooke: "It is Only through the Rate of Interest and the State of Credit, That the Bank of England Can Exercise a Direct Influence on the Foreign Exchanges"
  • 5. John Maynard Keynes: "Central Banks to Vary the Interest Offered for Foreign Balances, as a Policy Distinct from their Bank-rate Policy for Home Balances"
  • 6. Unorthodox Genealogy and Analytical Progress
  • References
  • PART II: ESSAYS
  • Chapter 7: Advising the "Devil" or "Preaching" to the Public? The Controversy Over Milton Friedman's 1975 Visit to Chile
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Dictator and the Democrat: Friedman 1953 or Buchanan 1959?
  • 3. Friedman and Chile?
  • 4. Fascist Economics and Fascist Politics?
  • 5. The Guiding Light of the Junta's Policy?

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