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Economic Responses to Nazi Aggression in Europe: Albert Hirschman and Paul Rosenstein-Rodan on the Economic Sovereignty of Central and Eastern Europe
Full text linkGermany's expansion in Central and Eastern Europe was not just one among many aggressive moves by the Third Reich but the central strategy of the Nazi imperial project on the continent. Prominent economists, politicians, and think tanks agreed that crucial to this project was Germany's economic domination of the area, and they committed to developing a new vision for a postwar international order that avoided the instability and turmoil of the interwar years. This article discusses the analyses of the crisis of Central and Eastern Europe and solutions to it that Albert Hirschman and Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, then both virtually unknown and working independently one from the other, produced during World War II—Hirschman with a focus on the international dimension and Rosenstein-Rodan with a focus on the domestic one. This article offers a synthetic discussion of how the war deeply affected their economic thinking and how, in turn, their analyses became foundational elements of new and important disciplinary fields in the postwar decades, such as international political economy and development economics
History of Disciplines - The History of Development
No full textFor the Columbia Humanities Center I put together a program of research focusing on the history and future of academic disciplines in collaboration with the Center's Director, Mark Mazower. I also was the principal coordinator of a section of this larger program, focusing specifically on the history of development. Additional information available on www.heymancenter.org/event
Il problema del Monopolio visto dall'Italia
No full textSorprendentemente, la storiografia del pensiero economico si è occupata molto poco della vasta letteratura che almeno dalla fine del diciannovesimo secolo è fiorita sulla questione del potere monopolistico, e per nulla di come gli economisti italiani vi abbiano contribuito. Il volume di Manuela Mosca, Monopoly Power and Competition. The Italian Marginalist Perspective,
(Cheltenham, uk, Edward Elgar, 2018) colma questo vuoto e dimostra l’importanza fondamentale degli studi di Pareto, Pantaleoni, De Viti De Marco e Barone a livello italiano e, benché meno approfonditamente, internazionale
Review of Giovanni Farese and Paolo Savona, "Il banchiere del mondo. Eugene Robert Black e l’ascesa della cultura dello sviluppo in Italia"
No full textReview of Giovanni Farese and Paolo Savona, Il banchiere del mondo. Eugene Robert Black e l’ascesa della cultura dello sviluppo in Itali
History of Disciplines
No full textFor the Columbia Humanities Center I put together a program of research focusing on the history and future of academic disciplines in collaboration with the Center's Director, Mark Mazower. Additional information available on www.heymancenter.org/event
Early Development Economics Debates Revisited
No full textDevelopment economics in its early years created the image of a fierce fight between advocates of contrasting theories or approaches— “balanced growth” vs. “unbalanced growth” or “program loans” vs. “project loans.” This view has the merit to highlight such conflicts in great detail; yet it fails to take into account the reality of development economics as it was practiced in the field. This paper reassesses these old conflicts by complementing the traditional focus on theoretical debates with an emphasis on the practice of development economics. A particularly interesting example is the debate between Albert Hirschman, one of the fathers of the “unbalanced growth” approach, and Lauchlin Currie, among the advocates of “balanced growth” on how to foster iron production in Colombia in the 1950s. An analysis of the positions held by these two economists shows that they were in fact much less antithetical than is usually held and, indeed, were in some fundamental aspects surprisingly similar. Debates among development economists during the 1950s thus must be explained—at least partially—as the natural dynamics of an emerging discipline that took shape when different groups tried to achieve supremacy—or at least legitimacy—through the creation of mutually delegitimizing systemic theories
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
No full textResearch in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, founded by Warren Samuel
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
No full textLeading journal in the history of economic thought, published by Cambridge U
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