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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of topics related to the history and methodology of economics.
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.
Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Science in Arizona State University’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He has published extensively on topics related to the history and philosophy of the Austrian School of Economics.
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He specializes in the history of political economy, exploring the intersections between economics and politics in different historical contexts, from early modern England to Cold War Latin America.
PART I. A Symposium on Hazel Kyrk's A Theory of Consumption 100 Years after Publication
Chapter 1. Introduction; Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Chapter 2. Hazel Kyrk’s intellectual roots: When First-Generation Home Economists Met the Institutionalist Framework; David Philippy, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Robert W. Dimand
Chapter 3. Hazel Kyrk’s A Theory of Consumption, Veblen’s Business and Industrial Concerns, and W.C. Mitchell’s Essays on Spending and Money: Conceptual Links; Zdravka Todorova
Chapter 4. Hazel Kyrk and her Research on Standards of Consumption; Edith Kuiper
Chapter 5. Hazel Kyrk, the Economics of the Social Relevance of Consumption and John Maynard Keynes’ Consumption Function; Atilio Trezzini
Chapter 6. What should families want? From Hazel Kyrk to Margaret Reid and beyond; Miriam Bankovsky
PART II. Essays
Chapter 7. On the Integration of Institutional Themes and Neoclassical Formalism: Locational Economics as a Case Study in Pragmatic Empiricism; Yue Xiao and Joseph Persky
Chapter 8. Nutter and Buchanan did not turn against tuition grants for segregated schools in 1965: A comment on Fleury (2023) and Levy and Peart (2023); Daniel Kuehn
Chapter 9. Response to Kuehn: Buchanan on the rules for public school funding: Additional thoughts; David Levy and Sandra Peart