Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit at 100

Fiorito, Luca (Editor)/ Scheall, Scott (Editor)/ Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo (Editor)/ Emmett, Ross B. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1800711492 / ISBN 13: 9781800711495

Published by Emerald Group Pub Ltd, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit at 100
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800711492
• ISBN 13: 9781800711495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frank H. Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. The symposium features contributions from Per Bylund, Richard E. Wagner, our own Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and his co-author, Thiago Oliveira, as well as an essay from guest editor Ross B. Emmett. The Volume also includes general-research essays from David C. Coker, J. Patrick Higgins, and Charles R. McCann, Jr.

About the Author

Luca Fiorito received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently Professor at the University of Palermo. His main area of interest is the history of American economic thought in the Progressive Era and the interwar years. He has published many works on the contributions of the institutionalists and on the relationship between economics and eugenics.

Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, as well as Project Director for the History of Economic Thought in Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of economics. Scott is the author of F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics (Routledge, 2020).

Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the history and methodology of economics, studying the interplay of social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017).