Episode Twenty
Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast - A podcast by Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar
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Co-hosts Scott Scheall, Gerardo Serra, and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak discuss a few recent additions to the literature in the history of economic thought. Topics include the intellectual relationship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the visit of a delegation of radical American economists to Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution, and the evolution of the structuralist research program in Latin American monetary economics. If you are inclined to read the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): Ryu Susato: “How Rousseau Read Hume’s Political Discourses: Hints of Unexpected Agreement in Their Views of Money and Luxury” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09672567.2018.1499788 André Roncaglia de Carvalho: “A Second-Generation Structuralist Transformation Problem: The Rise Of The Inertial Inflation Hypothesis” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought/article/secondgeneration-structuralist-transformation-problem-the-rise-of-the-inertial-inflation-hypothesis/E7DA5C0A3C34381502F3C71D8B81A476 American Radical Economists in Mao’s China: From Hopes to Disillusionment Isabella Maria Weber and Gregor Semieniuk https://emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S0743-41542019000037A005 Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
