Charles Michael Andres Clark - Economic Transition in Historical Perspective

Lessons from the history of economics

CHARLES MICHAEL ANDRES CLARK
St Johns University, USA

JANINA ROSICKA
Jagiellonian University, Poland

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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Jan in a Rosicka

Eric R. Hake and Walter C. Neale

Antnio Almodovar and Maria de Ftima Brando

Eyp zveren

William C. Schaniel

Dell Champlin and Ann Jennings

Ana Bela Nunes and Nuno Valrio

Janina Godw-Legid

Charles M. A. Clark

Pedro Nuno de Freitas Lopes Teixeira

Antnio Almodovar is associate professor at the Faculdade de Economia of the Universidade do Porto (Portugal), where he has been teaching History of Economic Thought. He co-authored A History of Portuguese Economic Thought (Routledge), and has several works published in Portuguese on the history of economic thought. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Dell Champlin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Eastern Illinois University. She has also taught at the University of Nevada, the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, the University of Tennessee and the University of Dallas. Prior to completing her PhD at the University of Utah, she worked for eight years as an economic analyst for the US government and in the private sector. Her primary research interests are labour issues, corporate power, and social economics.

Charles M. A. Clark is Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Vincentian Center for Church and Society, at St. Johns University, New York. His past positions include Visiting Professor, University College Cork, Ireland. His most recent book is Basic Income: Economic Security for All Canadians (1999) (with Sally Lerner and W. Robert Needham).

Maria de Ftima Brando is Associate Professor at the Faculdade de Economia of the Universidade do Porto (Portugal), where she has been teaching Economic History. She has several works published, mainly in Portuguese, on the history of rural communities in western Portugal and on the history of Portuguese economic thought.

Janina Godw-Legid is Associate Professor of the History of Economic Thought at Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of t), Poland. She is the author of one book and over 40 articles.

Eric R Hake is an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University. After receiving his doctorate in 1994 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, he taught in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for three years. His research has dealt with the evolution of financial institutions and ownership structures in an historical and comparative context.

Ann Jennings currently teaches in the Economics and Management Department at DePauw University, Greencastle Indiana. She has published extensively on the economic thought of Thorstein Vehlen and on the relationship between feminist thought and economics. Her current research interests focus on problems in theorizing the commodification of labour, particularly as related to units of measurement and standardization.

Walter C. Neale is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He was a student of Karl Polanyis in the late 1940s and a colleague of Karl Polanyi in the project at Columbia University that produced Trade and Markets in the Early Empires. He has done research on economic and social change in rural India and has published frequently on India, in economic anthropology, and on the welfare state.

Ana Bela Nunes is Professor of History at the Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon and director of the Research Centre of Economic and Social History of the same institute. She worked on general and Portuguese history, mainly in the fields of education and human capital history and retrospective national accounts, and theory of economic systems.

Eyp zveren is in the Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University & Boazii University. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York. His research fields include: political economy, history of economic thought, Middle East.

Janina Rosicka is Chair of the History of Economic Thought at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. She is the author of three books and over 50 articles and over 50 reviews.

William C. Schaniel is Professor of Economics at the State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA.

Pedro Nuno de Freitas Lopes Teixeira is Assistente Estagirio at the University of Porto. His research interests include: the economics of education, History of Economic Thought and Economic History.

Nuno Valrio is Professor of History at the Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon and President of the Portuguese Association for the History of International Relations. He works on general, Portuguese and colonial history, mainly in the fields of monetary and financial history and retrospective national accounts, and theory of economic systems.

In 1997 the editors of the book presented here were lamenting the lack of an historical perspective in most of the work on the problem of economic transition. Rather than merely complain about the problem, we did what every self-respecting academic does when they see a problem we organized a conference. Thus on September 17-19, 1998, in Cracow, Poland, the Economic Transition in Historical Perspective: What can be learned from the history of economics conference was held, co-sponsored by Jagiellonian University, Cracow Academy of Economics and St. Johns University, New York. We would like to thank each of these institutions for their generous support, especially the Cracow Academy of Economics, which provided the meeting place for conference. And we must thank the Rector of the Cracow Academy of Economics Prof. Jerzy Mikulowski Pomorski, who was also a co-organiser of the conference. Without his help and efforts our conference would never have gone beyond being an interesting idea. We also need to thank Dariusz Grzybek and Marek Jarzebinski who acted as our guides and generally kept the vistors to Cracow from getting too lost.