HOPE 44.4 Winter 2012

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Articles

"Mark Blaug, 1927–2011," by Roger E. Backhouse

"Andrew Skinner, 1935–2011," by Sheila C. Dow

"The Banking School and the Law of Reflux in General," by Laurent Le Maux (abstract)

"Enlightened Reforms and Economic Discourse in the Portuguese-Brazilian Empire (1750–1808),'" by José Luís Cardoso and Alexandre Mendes Cunha (abstract)

"The Discovery of the Isoquant," by Peter Lloyd (abstract)

"On Adam Smith's Ambiguities on Value and Wealth," by Ferdinando Meacci (abstract)

Book Reviews

Individuals and Identity in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2011), by John B. Davis. Reviewed by Lawrence Boland.

An Essay on Economic Theory: An English Translation of Richard Cantillon's "Essai sur la nature du commerce en général" (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010), translated by Chantal Saucier and edited by Mark Thornton. Reviewed by Anthony Brewer.

Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics (Princeton University Press, 2011), by Kaushik Basu. Reviewed by David Colander.

Nicholas Kaldor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), by John E. King. Reviewed by Meghnad Desai.

Commentaires de la "Théorie général" de Keynes à sa parution (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2009), edited by Ramón Tortajada. Reviewed by Gilles Dostaler.

The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky (Edward Elgar, 2010), edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray. Reviewed by Charles Goodhart.

The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947: Science and Social Control (Cambridge University Press, 2011), by Malcolm Rutherford. Reviewed by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

Jean-Baptiste Say: Influences, critiques et postérité (Classiques Garnier, 2010), edited by André Tiran. Reviewed by Samuel Hollander.

The Power of Economic Ideas: The Origins of Keynesian Macroeconomic Management in Interwar Australia, 1929–1939 (ANU E Press, 2010), by Alex Millmow. Reviewed by Susan Howson.

Rethinking Trade and Commercial Policy Theories: Development Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 2010), by P. Sai-wing Ho. Reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin.

Measuring America: How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010), by Andrew L. Yarrow. Reviewed by Tiago Mata.

Generations of Economists (Routledge, 2011), by David Collard. Reviewed by Steven G. Medema.

Darwin's Clever Neighbour: George Warde Norman and His Circle (Edward Elgar, 2010), edited by D. P. O'Brien and John Creedy. Reviewed by D. E. Moggridge.

Piero Sraffa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), by Alessandro Roncaglia. Reviewed by Pier Luigi Porta.

John Kenneth Galbraith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), by James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Stanfield; and The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith (Cambridge University Press, 2011), by Stephen P. Dunn. Reviewed by David Reisman.

Theories of Value from Adam Smith to Piero Sraffa (Routledge, 2010), by Ajit Sinha. Reviewed by Alessandro Roncaglia.

Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason: Text and Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2010), edited by Bruce Caldwell. Reviewed by Jeremy Shearmur.

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A Portrait with Family and Friends (Edward Elgar, 2010), by Lluís Barbé; translated by Mary C. Black. Reviewed by Stephen M. Stigler

The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638–1848 (Cambridge University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Karp. Reviewed by Keith Tribe.

Economic, Social, and Demographic Thought in the XIXth Century: The Population Debate from Malthus to Marx (Springer, 2009), by Yves Charbit; and The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay (Springer, 2010), by Yves Charbit. Reviewed by A. M. C. Waterman.