Drawing inspiration from Ross Emmett's (2006) imaginative construction of what Frank Knight might have thought about the Stigler-Becker formulation of Die Gustibus, I ask what Arthur Lovejoy (1936) might have thought about the origin of public choice. He would surely have denied that public...

Sheila Dow emphasizes the importance of context when reading a text. Here, I underline her point by presenting David Hume as inherently Scottish political economist. His economic concerns, his economic problems, and proposed economic solutions are shaped by the experience of 18th century...

The goal of the paper is twofold. It examines how Friedrich List's interpretation of the economic dynamics of “tropical” countries as non-industrial economies exporters of primary commodities fits in his overall analytical framework and accords with his emphasis on the explanatory value of...

The present paper analyzes the links that exist between Adam Smith's thought and Amartya Sen's one with the aim of presenting a definition of globalization which shows how global market could be a potential instrument to promote socio-economic development. The definition of globalization here...