A Response to Nicholas Gane’s ‘The Emergence of Neoliberalism’

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 299-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Davies
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
The State ◽  
Early History ◽  
Ludwig Von Mises ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Von Mises

This commentary responds to Nicholas Gane’s article on the early history of neoliberalism. Gane contends that many histories, Foucault’s in particular, do not account for the very earliest period of neoliberal thought, during the 1920s, which was dominated by Ludwig von Mises. Gane also argues that by ignoring this period, critical scholars have misidentified the critical distantiation from John Stuart Mill that was definitive for early neoliberalism. In response to Gane, this piece argues, partly in defence of Foucault, that the key moments in the history of neoliberalism (and liberalism) concern the penetration of economic rationalities into the state. Hence, while the history of economics has intrinsic merits, figures such as Mill may be less significant for the shaping of political rationalities.

Early history of the state — West and east

Politics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Springborg
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Early History ◽  
History Of

The Early History of Palaeontology in Western Australia: 1791-1899

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Mcnamara ◽  
Frances Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
The State ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Geological Map

The exploration of the coast of Western Australia by English and French explorers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to the first recorded discoveries of fossiliferous rocks in Western Australia. The first forty years of exploration and discovery of fossil sites in the State was restricted entirely to the coast of the Continent. Following the establishment of permanent settlements in the 1820s the first of the inland fossil localities were located in the 1830s, north of Albany, and north of Perth. As new land was surveyed; particularly north of Perth, principally by the Gregory brothers in the 1840s and 1850s, Palaeozoic rocks were discovered in the Perth and Carnarvon Basins. F.T. Gregory in particular developed a keen interest in the geology of the State to such an extent that he was able, at a meeting of the Geological Society of London in 1861, to present not only a geological map of part of the State, but also a suite of fossils which showed the existence of Permian and Hesozoic strata. The entire history of nineteenth century palaeontology in Western Australia was one of discovery and collection of specimens. These were studied initially by overseas naturalists, but latterly, in the 1890s by Etheridge at The Australian Museum in Sydney. Sufficient specimens had been collected and described by the turn of the century that the basic outline of the Phanerozoic geology of the sedimentary basins was reasonably well known.

scholarly journals Economists as Worldly Philosophers

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J Shiller ◽  
Virginia M Shiller
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Early History ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crisis Support ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interaction

While leading figures in the early history of economics conceived of it as inseparable from philosophy and other humanities, there has been movement, especially in recent decades, towards its becoming an essentially technical field with narrowly specialized areas of inquiry. Certainly, specialization has allowed for great progress in economic science. However, recent events surrounding the financial crisis support the arguments of some that economics needs to develop forums for interdisciplinary interaction and to aspire to broader vision.

Turkey’s Small Capital, A Player from the Start: Relations with the State and Big Capital

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-108
Author(s):  
EMRE BALIKÇI
Keyword(s):  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Early History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Shed Light

This article aims to shed light on the early history of small-scale capital in Turkey. Turkey’s paradigm of development in the 1960s and 1970s, as in other belatedly industrializing countries, meant active state involvement, generally in favor of big capital. This emphasis on the large players has caused small capital’s influence on the era’s state policies to be largely overlooked. This article argues that small capital, popularized in the 1990s with the concept “Anatolian capital,” has deeper roots in Turkish economic and business history than formerly thought.

scholarly journals By Force of Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (S1) ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
György Péteri
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Client Relations ◽  
State Socialist

Patron-client relations were a ubiquitous feature of cultural and academic life under the state socialist social order, as were networks crisscrossing the borderlines between the domains of political power and scholarship. Awareness of and due attention to such relations and networks, this article argues, is a sine qua non of any reliable history of economics in the communist era. Pioneering projects, publications presenting innovative new approaches, individual careers yielding significant works of domestic and international acclaim were as much dependent on the support and protection of the politically powerful as on genuine talent and diligence. State socialism was not the kind of social order that would typically enable a spectacular scholarly development just “by force of thought.” The article focuses on the story of one particularly important patron in Hungary over the field of economics, a true communist grand seigneur: István Friss. It shows how his contribution has been systematically neglected, suppressed by both the historical and the memoir literature, and it presents archival evidence highlighting the vital importance of Friss’s patronage for the work and careers of such leading economists as András Bródy and, particularly, János Kornai.

Does Scholarship in the History of Economics Have a Useful Future?

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Barber
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Research

Presidential addresses tend to fall into one of two broad categories. Category I speeches-which I shall refer to as the pastoral style speak to the condition of our sub-discipline. Their central themes typically survey the state of the art offer commentary on promising further directions for fruitful research, and provide arguments useful in justifying our existence to skeptics who doubt the utility of studying the works of dead economists.

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