Preface / Joseph L. Love? -- Introduction / Alexandre Mendes Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak -- International dissemination of economic ideas -- Political economy and latin american independence from the 19th to the 20th century / Alexandre Mendes Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak -- Circulating...

part 1. International dissemination of economic ideas -- part 2. Protectionism and free trade in the nineteenth century -- part 3. Ideas from abroad -- part 4. Doing political economy in Latin America -- part 5. Nationalism and economic development in Latin America.

This paper examines the operation of the gold standard and the performance of the Bank of England during the crisis of 1847. The key feature of that crisis has been its origin: it originated from a massive real shock rather than from monetary disorder. A harvest failure gave rise to commercial...

The political philosophy of pluralism enjoyed great currency in Britain during the early decades of the 20th century, as an alternative to the extreme poles of individualism and collectivism. Positing the existence of multiple types of political allegiances in any society, pluralism questioned...

In the second edition of his methodological Essay, Lionel Robbins attributes a significant role to uncertainty, dynamics and the time element. Understanding the motives that led to these revisions may offer important clues to assess what happened to political economy ever since, and how far...