Historian of economics Michael S. Lawlor died on September 21, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, following a long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare neurodegenerative disease.

Lawlor retired as a Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in 2014, after eighteen years at the university.  He earned his B.A. at the University of Texas and completed his Ph.D. at Iowa State University.

His early publications were on the history of economic thought, with later publications in health economics.  (He founded the Health Policy and Administration program at Wake Forest.)

Among his HET publications are

The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context: An Intellectual History of the General Theory, Palgrave Macmillan. 2006.

and

New Perspectives on Keynes (edited with Allin Cottrell), Duke University Press, 1995.

Articles include

“Was Keynes a Chapter Two Keynesian?” (with W.A. Darity and B.L. Horn), Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 1987.

“Minsky and Keynes on Speculation and Finance,” Social Science Journal, 1990.

“Natural Rate Mutations: Keynes, Leijonhufvud, and Wicksell,” (with A.F. Cottrell). History of Political Economy, 1991.

“Keynes, Meltzer and Involuntary Unemployment: On the Intensional and Extensional Logic of Definitions,” Review of Social Economy, 1991.

“Notes on the Sraffa-Hayek Exchange,” (with B.L. Horn), Review of Political Economy, 1992.

“Keynes, Cambridge and the New Keynesian Economics,” in Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets, W.A. Darity, ed., 1993

“The Own-Rates Framework as an Interpretation of the General Theory: A Suggestion for Complicating the Keynesian Theory of Money,” in John Davis, ed., Keynes: The State of the Debate, 1994.

“On the Historical Origin of Keynes’s Views on Financial Market Processes,” History of Political Economy, 1994.

“Keynes and Financial Market Processes: From the Treatise to the General Theory,” in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, eds., Essays in Honour of G.C. Harcourt, 1996.

“The Classical Theory of the Rate of Interest,” in G.C. Harcourt and P. Riach, A Second Edition of the General Theory, 1997.

“Dewey and Economic Reality,” in Elias Khalil, ed. Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology, 2004.

“William James's Psychological Pragmatism: Habit, Belief and Purposive Human Behaviour,” Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2006.

Please read his obituary at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sanantonio/name/michael-lawlor-obituary?id=36591158.