Political events and economic ideas / edited by Ingo Barens and Volker Caspari and Bertram Schefold.

Papers presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought held Feb. 22-25, 2001 in Darmstadt, Germany.

"Published with the support of ESHET.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. From bimetallism to monetarism : the shifting political affiliation of the quantity theory / David Laidler -- 2. Economic and monetary union in Europe : political priority versus economic integration? / Otmar Issing -- 3. The political element in monetary theory / Marcello de Cecco -- 4. Monetary reform in France : the French economists and the stabilization of the franc in the 1920s / Cecile Dangel-Hagnauer and Alain Raybaut -- 5. Consequences of a monetary system : German monetary reform, 1948 - the birth of the DM and of a new central bank system and their political and economic implications / Karl Hauser -- 6. Quesnay's creation of the Tableau economique in response to the economic weakness of France / Walter Eltis -- 7. Power and wealth : Quesnay betrayed by the Tableau economique? / Jean Cartelier -- 8. Structural change and social transformation in physiocracy / Gianni Vaggi -- 9. The kingdom of Ponthiamas - a physiocratic model state in Indochina : a note on the international exchange of economic thought and of concepts for economic reforms in the 18th century / Rainer Klump -- 10. Cleomenes III's politico-economic reforms in Sparta (235-222 B.C.) and Cercidas' economic thought / Christos P. Baloglou -- 11. Economic theory as political philosophy : the example of the French enlightenment / Jean Cartelier -- 12. Economic theory and economic policy in Italy during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century / Herbert Pruns -- 13. Advocacy of freedom and justification of governmental interference in western economic thought - the case of two liberal economists : Francesco Ferrara and Henry C. Carey / Daniela Parisi -- 14. The end of an era : the Austrian Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie in the interwar period / Kurt W. Rothschild -- 15. Patristic legacies in Russian economic thought and their significance for the transformation of Russia's economy and society / Joachim Zweynert -- 16. Specific interrelations of politics and economics in Russian history / Vladimir Avtonomov -- 17. The Great Depression in Irving Fisher's thought / Giovanni Pavanelli -- 18. Planning for abundance : Nicholas Kaldor and Joan Robinson on the socialist reconstruction of Britain, 1942-45 / J. E. King -- 19. Harrod's dynamics in the making / Daniele Besomi -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / Marcello de Cecco -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / Walter Eltis -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / David Laidler -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / Bertram Schefold -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / Christian Schmidt -- The effects of political events on economic ideas : a round-table discussion / Erich W. Streissler.

"The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future economic, development of a country." "Political Events and Economic Ideas will hold great appeal and interest for researchers and scholars of political thought, as well as historians of economic thought worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.

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