A Review of János Kornai's By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard Roland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Intellectual Journey

This article reviews the memoirs of János Kornai. The famous Hungarian economist describes his life experiences and the concurrent history of Hungary. More importantly, he leads us through his intellectual evolution, explaining how his thinking evolved, how it was influenced by events, how one research question led to another. This brings alive the intellectual and historical developments that led to Kornai's work on socialist incentives, on the theory of planning, on the economics of shortage, and on the transition from socialism to capitalism. The book takes us on a journey that encompasses large elements of the history of economic thought in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the history of Central Europe.

scholarly journals Non-Proletarianization Theories of the Jewish Worker (1902-1939).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Vallois
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

In the early twentieth century, an economic doctrine known as “non-proletarianization theory” became influential among left-wing Zionists in Russia. According to this theory, Jewish workers were unable to “proletarianize”—that is, to integrate large-scale industry; hence, Jewish territorial autonomy was required, whether in Palestine or elsewhere. This article analyzes this theory’s historical development, focusing on the works of three authors: Khaim Dov Horovitz, Yakov Leshchinsky, and Ber Borochov. I claim that discussions of Jewish non-proletarianization can be considered a specific and coherent intellectual tradition in the history of economic thought. I also discuss these theories’ relation to the anti-sweatshop campaign of the Progressive Era, particularly John R. Commons’s writings on Jewish immigrants that were recently debated in this journal.

The Problem of Rationality

2015 ◽  
pp. 363-392
Author(s):  
Mario J. Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Austrian Economics ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

This chapter draws on the history of economic thought to elucidate the foundations of the Austrian economics conception of rationality. First, it shows how Austrian subjectivism was originally differentiated from nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century psychologically based economics. Then it shows how the Austrians differentiated themselves from the behaviorist approach that began to affect economics as early as the 1910s but mainly from the 1920s to the 1950s. Finally, drawing on the work of Friedrich Hayek and Alfred Schutz, it shows that the Austrian conception of rationality is not based on introspection and illustrates the differences between an Austrian approach and that of today’s new behavioral economics.

scholarly journals 2006 HES Presidential address a Tale of two Mainstreams: Economics and Philosophy of Natural Science in the Mid-Twentieth Century

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Wade Hands
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Numerical Problem ◽  
History Of

HES Presidential addresses often attempt to answer a substantive question (or number of related questions) in the history of economic thought. The answers provided are not “answers” in the sense that one finds an answer to a simple numerical problem; rather they are historical narratives, stories, that bring the listener/reader to a new, and hopefully deeper, understanding of a particular author, piece of economic literature, or episode in the history of economic thought.

J. A. Schumpeter, Werner Stark, and the Historiography of Economic Thought

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Szmrecsányi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This article intends to assess and compare the main contributions to our discipline of two major authors and authorities. Both of them originated in Central Europe and, later on, went to work in the United States, where their most important books on the subject were published posthumously during the second half of the twentieth century. At the same time, besides pertaining to different generations, they also were very unlike from each other.The eldest, Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), remains much better known among contemporary economists, although very few of them seem to have read in its entirety his imposing History of Economic Analysis (1954a), still a model of our trade. The same probably also applies to his shorter and previous book on the same subject, Economic Doctrine and Method, which had been initially published in Germany forty years earlier, as well as to the essays collected in his Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter DeScioli
Keyword(s):  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Target Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

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