著者
Marek Ratajczak
出版者
The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought
雑誌
経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.2, pp.1-17, 2009 (Released:2019-08-08)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
1

The anniversary of the launch of transition in Poland is a good opportunity for summarizing the changes that have occurred in Polish economics and the Polish economy over the last twenty years. The author believes that certain processes cannot be understood without providing a broader historical background to them. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present what the author believes to be the most important trends in the development of the Polish economy and Polish economics not only in the postwar period, but also before World War II. Polish economics and the Polish economy have undergone transformation over two decades of transition. In this period, Polish economists began to adapt their research to major trends of modern economics. A majority of them agreed to the concepts of mainstream economics. The main weakness of Polish economics continues to be the limited number of publications in prestigious English-language periodicals. In effect, Polish economics continues to be little known in the world. JEL classification numbers: B 24, N 14, P 30.
著者
François Allisson
出版者
The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought
雑誌
経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.1, pp.19-35, 2009 (Released:2019-06-21)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
1 3

This paper evaluates the reception of Léon Walras’ ideas in Russia before 1920. Despite an unfavourable institutional context, Walras was read by Russian economists. On the one hand, Bortkiewicz and Winiarski, who lived outside Russia and had the opportunity to meet and correspond with Walras, were first class readers and very good ambassadors for Walras’ ideas, while on the other, the economists living in Russia were more selective in their readings. They restricted themselves to Walras’ Elements of Pure Economics, in particular, its theory of exchange, while ignoring its theory of production. We introduce a cultural argument to explain their selective reading. JEL classification numbers: B 13, B 19.
著者
小峯 敦
出版者
経済学史学会
雑誌
経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.1, pp.60-75, 2009 (Released:2019-06-21)
参考文献数
50

Frederic Lavington (1881–1927) played a significant role as a node between Marshall’s and Keynes’s eras. While Marshall trusted on the individual chivalrous entrepreneur, Keynes no longer depended on such an individual and placed his hopes on semi-autonomous bodies guided by public authorities. Although Lavington was a devotedly orthodox Marshallian, he was also a revolutionary theory developer, and he was located in the transition period between the two important figures. He recognised an inherent instability in the modern economies of the time but still held an optimistic view of capitalism. Lavington relied on able entrepreneurs as a group, who he believed could eliminate the contradictions between individual rational calculations and collective disturbing consequences. Lavington’s insight on capitalism can be understood as a threefold-layer structure, at the core of which is an entrepreneur. This structure comprises the following: (1) theory construction, related to revolutionary devices such as liquidity preference and portfolio selection, (2) contemporary recognition, related to the trade cycle and (3) normative behavour, related to leaders in industry. The first is concerned with rational behaviour under uncertainty; the second, with unexpected disturbances and the third, with a coordination problem: if the captains of industry work well in business organizations, the gap between the micro- and macro-layers tends to reduce. Although he was very close to Keynes in the light of points (1) and (2), Lavington shared almost the same view of Marshall in the light of point (3). This duality had made evaluations on him extremely difficult. JEL Classification: B10, B31, L16