The methodology of Latin American economic structuralism has been generally interpreted as an implicit extension of classic French structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss and others, without careful examination of the methodological pronouncements of Latin American economists and social...

This paper was prepared for a symposium about Erwin Dekker’s (2021) recent biography of the Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen, with attention to Tinbergen’s work as a development economist in the post-war era. Tinbergen’s “uniqueness” among other development economists is discussed, as...

This paper provides an overview of Brazilian economists’ contributions to global economics since mid 20th century, from the perspective of economics as transnational science. The contributions are organized into three sections, after a methodological and historiographical introduction:...

The paper brings to light an article by Knut Wicksell published in Swedish in 1908 about the American crisis of 1907. Wicksell explicitly distinguished, apparently for the first time in the literature, three features of a healthy banking system: Solvency, liquidity, and versatility. The paper...

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky’s 1916 seminal study about the working of cooperatives in a capitalist environment, which, due to historical and linguistic circumstances, has left only a limited trace in the subsequent economic literature in the...

This short paper was written as a contribution to an ESHET roundtable about the links between the history of economic thought and economic policies. The history of the field of development economics illustrates, by its very nature as an essentially applied discipline, how ideas and policies...

The present paper reflects about Michael Woodford’s 2003 Interest & Prices, 20 years after its publication. The paper stresses its role (i) in the transition from a ‘neo-monetarist’ towards a ‘neo-Wicksellian’ framework within the New Keynesian - DSGE paradigm; (ii) in the widespread...

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt’s work on the interface between accountancy and economics is a part of his legacy that is less well known than his work on the capital controversies. This paper argues that the analytical findings of this research effort are an important and integral part of...

The paper discusses how early economists, sometimes informed by Alexander Humboldt’s pioneer detailed report on a tropical country (Mexico), interpreted the connections between natural resources, institutions and growth. The apparent paradox of a negative relation between natural wealth and...