Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

J.G.バックハウス他編　ドイツと西欧における戦後のケインズ主義
Backhaus, Juergen G. / Chaloupek, G. et al. (eds.), Post-war Keynesianism in Germany and Western Europe. (The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences 28) 228 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-101>
ISBN 978-3-032-00497-0 hard ¥42,632.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume discusses the reception and application of Keynesian economics in Europe during the 20th century. The main focus of the book is the case of West Germany, where the strong position of Keynesian economics (primarily of the neoclassical synthesis type) at most universities since the 1950s contrasted with Ordoliberalism and the concept of the Social Market Economy, which became dominant German economic policy after the war. Chapter contributions focus on important pioneers of theoretical or political Keynesianism, such as Erich Schneider, Andreas Paulsen, and Karl Schiller in Germany, Kurt Rothschild in Austria, Gottfried Bombach in Switzerland; the influence of Keynes on other economists; and the relevance of Keynesian ideas in Austria and Norway. Providing a survey of important theoretical economists in post-war Germany, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of economic policy, contemporary political, social and economic systems, history of economic thought and political history.

消費者社会と経済学者－経済思想史における消費とウェルビーイング
Collantes, Fernando, Consumer Society and the Economists: Consumption and Well-Being in the History of Economic Thought. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought) 229 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-102>
ISBN 978-3-031-96644-6 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Is consumer society a vehicle for progress? Or is it a detour leading us away from the path to the good life? To what extent is consumer society a relevant object of analysis, after all? Today, these questions are central to the debate on the dynamics of capitalism and their impact on human well-being. Yet they are by no means exclusive to our time. This book traces the history of economic thought on consumer society from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It explores the ambivalence of classical political economists and Marx towards the world of consumption. It narrates the making of an intellectual battlefield between rival views of consumer society during the period 1870-1945 and the head-on clash that took place between those views during the decades after the Second World War. How these debates reemerged following the end of the Cold War and the Global Financial Crisis is also covered. This is the story of how economists debated consumer society and how that debate was shaped by another fundamental discussion: how economists should conduct their research and what kind of relationships they should maintain with other social sciences and the humanities. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and political economy.

労働手段による商品の生産－価値法則の復活
Helmedag, Fritz, Production of Commodities by Means of Labour: Rehabilitation of the Law of Value. (Springer Studies in Alternative Economics) 380 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-103>
ISBN 978-3-032-01456-6 hard ¥22,568.- (税込) EUR 89.99

This book revitalises the labour theory of value as a framework for determining production prices and explores its implications for economic theory and policy. Through an in-depth review of economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and Piero Sraffa, it uncovers that the profit distribution in proportion to material costs generally prevents the division of labour between separate industries. Instead, it reveals that profit sharing in relation to the labour input - the original productive power - is the only consistent method to establish an equilibrium under conditions of 'free' competition. In addition, profit maximisation in the vertically integrated wage sector, which satisfies demand financed out of wages, leads to a 100?% rate of profit (or rate of exploitation). The associated real unit labour costs amount to 50?%. The remnant 'luxury' department must adapt to this level. Empirical evidence confirms this finding. The author demonstrates that economic theory grounded upon the law of value can offer welfare-enhancing policies. This book will intrigue scholars and students of economics, as well as anyone interested in economic theory and the history of economic thought.

18世紀イギリスにおける経済の道徳的ディスコース
Yoon, Hye-Joon, Moral Discourses of the Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain. 272 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-104>
ISBN 978-981-9509-57-7 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a comprehensive picture of eighteenth-century British authors' engagement with a society increasingly driven by commercial interests. The books and pamphlets constituting the "discourses" on economic topics overstep the boundaries separating the domains of economics, religion (William Warburton, John Wesley), law (William Blackstone, Lord Mansfield), history (William Robertson, Edward Gibbon), physiology (Richard Morton, Goerge Cheyne) and politics (Edmund Burke, the Abolitionists). An impartial and inclusive history of the "discourses" is what the book purports to construct. The luminaries of the British (and Scottish) Enlightenment (Adam Smith, David Hume), are given due respects, but a great number of less well-known and even anonymous authors also feature in the book. Giving as much scope as possible to the sources themselves, the book pays attention to both the rhetorical and the thematic layers of the quotations, while keeping generalization and theorizations to the minimum. The "eighteenth-century" in the title begins in the 1680s, when some of the important authors such as Nicholas Barbon published their thoughts, and ends in the 1790s, with the contrastive pair of Edmund Burke and Jeremy Bentham.