This book is written in honour of Richard Arena, Professor of Economics at the University of the Cōte d'Azur and a specialist in the history of economic thought. Written by distinguished scholars and historians of economic thought, this volume covers various scientific topics that Richard Arena has dealt with during his 40 years of academic activity. It features contributions on the theory and history of economic analysis, covering economic thinking from the 19th and 20th centuries through the post-war period to Cambridge economics and the Sraffa period. It also includes contributions on economic modelling, economic philosophy and ontology. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of economics and, in particular, the work of Richard Arena.
Part I. Introduction.
Chapter
1. Introduction (Muriel Dal Pont
Legrand).- Part II. A conversation with Richard Arena.
Chapter
2. Economy,
history and society: an embedded view". A conversation with Richard Arena
(Sandye Gloria).- Part III. The Inspiring 19th.
Chapter
3. Sismondi: prices,
markets, wealth and happiness (Pascal Bridel).
Chapter
4. Nineteenth-Century
French Liberal Economists Reading of Ricardo through the Lenses of their
Fear of Socialism (Nathalie Sigot).
Chapter
5. The exploitation of the globe
and nature. The blind spot of environmental considerations in Saint Simonian
Industrialism (Michel Bellet).
Chapter
6. Paths to a new historiographical
territory: international crossings, visiting economists, travelling models
(Annie L. Cot).
Chapter
7. Walras Economie Pure vs Marshalls Economics?
Some insights on economics as a social science (Katia Caldari).- Part IV:
Interwar episodes.
Chapter
8. Hayeks Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
(Harald Hagemann).
Chapter
9. Corridor stability in early history of
Macroeconomics (Michael Assous).
Chapter
10. When General Theory met French
politics: the historical context of a translation (Ghislain Deleplace).-
Chapter
11. Antonio de Viti de Marcos painful retirement decision (Manuela
Mosca).- Part V. Cambridge Economics and the Sraffa period.
Chapter
12. On
some new interpretations of Ricardos principle of comparative advantages
(Sergio Parrinello).
Chapter
13. The new turn in the debate on capital
theory (Bertram Schefold).
Chapter
14. Sraffa on multiple-products processes
of production: the case of joint production proper and of land of a single
quality (Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori).
Chapter
15. The Rashomon Effect
and the Sraffa-Marx Puzzle (Riccardo Bellofiore).
Chapter
16. Richard Arena
on Sraffa and Wittgenstein (John Davis).
Chapter
17. On some aspects of
Arenas interpretation of Sraffa (Cristina Marcuzzo).
Muriel Dal Pont Legrand is a Professor of Economics at Université Cōte D'Azur UCA Nice and GREDEG-CNRS, Department of Economics, ELMI Graduate School. She is co-editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Her main research interest is the history of macroeconomics in the interwar and post-war periods. Recently, she has focused on the relationship between (macro)economics and complexity approaches.
Sandye Gloria is a Professor of Economics at the Université Cōte D'Azur UCA Nice and GREDEG-CNRS, Department of Economics, ELMI Graduate School. She specializes in Carl Menger and the Austrian tradition. Her recent work focuses on the specificity of the economics of complexity from an epistemological and conceptual point of view.
