40 Years of Economics Tributes to Richard Arena and His Impact on Economic Thought

This book is written in honour of Richard Arena, Professor of Economics at the University of the Côte d'Azur and a specialist in the history of economic thought. Written by distinguished scholars and historians of economic thought, this volume covers various scientific topics that Richard Arena has dealt with during his 40 years of academic activity. It features contributions on the theory and history of economic analysis, covering economic thinking from the 19th and 20th centuries through the post-war period to Cambridge economics and the Sraffa period. It also includes contributions on economic modelling, economic philosophy and ontology. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of economics and, in particular, the work of Richard Arena.

Part I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Muriel Dal Pont Legrand).- Part II. A conversation with Richard Arena.- Chapter 2. “Economy, history and society: an embedded view". A conversation with Richard Arena (Sandye Gloria).- Part III. The Inspiring 19th.- Chapter 3. Sismondi: prices, markets, wealth and happiness (Pascal Bridel).- Chapter 4. Nineteenth-Century French Liberal Economists’ Reading of Ricardo through the Lenses of their Fear of Socialism (Nathalie Sigot).- Chapter 5. The exploitation of the globe and nature. The blind spot of environmental considerations in Saint Simonian Industrialism (Michel Bellet).- Chapter 6. Paths to a new historiographical territory: international crossings, visiting economists, travelling models (Annie L. Cot).- Chapter 7. Walras’ Economie Pure vs Marshall’s Economics? Some insights on economics as a social science (Katia Caldari).- Part IV: Interwar episodes.- Chapter 8. Hayek‘s Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle (Harald Hagemann).- Chapter 9. Corridor stability in early history of Macroeconomics (Michael Assous).- Chapter 10. When General Theory met French politics: the historical context of a translation (Ghislain Deleplace).- Chapter 11. Antonio de Viti de Marco’s painful’ retirement decision (Manuela Mosca).- Part V. Cambridge Economics and the Sraffa period.- Chapter 12. On some “new” interpretations of Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantages (Sergio Parrinello).- Chapter 13. The new turn in the debate on capital theory (Bertram Schefold).- Chapter 14. Sraffa on multiple-products processes of production: the case of joint production proper and of land of a single quality (Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori).- Chapter 15. The Rashomon Effect and the Sraffa-Marx Puzzle (Riccardo Bellofiore).- Chapter 16. Richard Arena on Sraffa and Wittgenstein (John Davis).- Chapter 17. On some aspects of Arena’s interpretation of Sraffa (Cristina Marcuzzo).

Muriel Dal Pont Legrand is a Professor of Economics at Université Côte D'Azur UCA Nice and GREDEG-CNRS, Department of Economics, ELMI Graduate School. She is co-editor of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Her main research interest is the history of macroeconomics in the interwar and post-war periods. Recently, she has focused on the relationship between (macro)economics and complexity approaches. 

Sandye Gloria is a Professor of Economics at the Université Côte D'Azur UCA Nice and GREDEG-CNRS, Department of Economics, ELMI Graduate School. She specializes in Carl Menger and the Austrian tradition. Her recent work focuses on the specificity of the economics of complexity from an epistemological and conceptual point of view.