Dear colleagues,
the December 23 issue of JHET is out and it features an interview with Evelyn Forget (by Virginie Gouverneur), 6 research articles covering a wide range of topics, from abolitionism, to the measurement of utility, to the Italian economists and press in the early twentieth century, to the Italian debate on brain drain, to Raul Prebishc and industrialization, and to neoliberalism, as well as 7 book reviews:

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Volume 45 Number 4 December 2023

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought/latest-issue 


Articles


“How Can I Liberate the Slaves?” The Neglected Tradition of Developmental Abolitionism

Abel B. S. Gaiya


Irving Fisher, Ragnar Frisch, and the Elusive Quest for Measurable Utility

Robert W. Dimand


The Economists and the Press in Italy from the End of the Nineteenth Century until Fascism: The Case of Luigi Einaudi

Giovanni Pavanelli


Before Brain Drain: Italian Economists on the Calculus of the Value of Men

Claudia Sunna and Traci M. Ricciardo


How Industrialization Became the Core of Raúl Prebisch’s Thought

Adriana Calcagno


Dual Argument, Double Truth: On the Continued Importance of the State in Neoliberal Thought

Ola Innset



Interview


JHET INTERVIEWS: Evelyn L. Forget

Virginie Gouverneur



Book Reviews


Emily Erikson, Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

Henri-Pierre Mottironi


Ann Mari May, Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession

Miriam Bankovsky


Robin Paul Malloy, Law and the Invisible Hand: A Theory of Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence

Steven G. Medema


Amartya Sen, Home in the World: A Memoir

Sunilkumar Karintha


Antonio Magliulo, A History of European Economic Thought 

Manuela Mosca


Ivan Colangelo Salomão, Os homens do cofre: o que pensavam os ministros da Fazenda do Brasil Republicano (1889–1985) 

Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi


Benjamin M. Friedman, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Keith Tribe


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Pedro Duarte & Jimena Hurtado
JHET Editors

Catherine Herfeld
JHET Book Review Editor