Department of the history and philosophy of science

Topics in the history of economic thought

Prof. S. Drakopoulos, Prof. G. Gotsis

Winter semester 2021/22

Κατάλογος θεμάτων

Part A: Ancient economic ideas

The Ancient Greek concept of Oikonomia (Η αρχαιοελληνική έννοια της

οικονομίας)
1. Bitros, G.C. and Karayiannis, A.D. (2010).Morality, institutions and the
wealth of nations: Some lessons from ancient Greece. European Journal of
Political Economy, 26(1): 68-81. .
2. Leshem, D. (2016).Retrospectives: What did the ancient Greeks mean by
Oikonomia? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(1): 225-231.

Early Christian and patristic economic tdeas: A brief overview

3. Gotsis, G. and Dodd, S. (2004).Economic Ideas in the Epistle of James.
History of Economic Ideas XII/1, pp. 7-35.
4. Hengstmengel, J. (2021). The paradox of value in the teaching of the Church
Fathers. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28(5) 695-
707.

Late Medieval economic ideas: 16th century Jesuit economic thought

5. Drakopoulos, S. and Gotsis, G.N. 2004.Α meta-theoretical assessment οn the
decline of scholastic economics. History of Economics Review, No 40, pp. 19-45.

Medieval Chinese economic ideas on economic policy (Οικονομική πολιτική

στην αρχαία Κινεζική οικονομική σκέψη)
6. Zhao, X. and Drechsler, W. (2018). Wang Anshi's economic reforms: Proto-
Keynesian economic policy in Song dynasty China. Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 42(5): 1239-1254.

Part B: Modern economic thought (16th-19th century)

Mercantillist economic ideas in modern Europe (Εμποροκρατικές ιδέες στην

Ευρώπη του 17ου και 18ου αιώνα)

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 7. Porta, Pier Luigi (2018). From Economia Civile to Kameralwissenschaften.
The line of descent from Genovesi to Beccaria in pre-Smithian Europe, The
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(4): 531-561.
8. Rössner, P. (2018). Monetary theory and Cameralist economic management, c.
1500–1900 A.D. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 40(1): 99-134.

Utilitarianism and positivism in classical political economy (Θετικισμός και

ωφελιμισμός στην κλασσσική πολιτική οικονομία)
9. Klump, R. and Pilz, L. (2021). The formation of a “spirit of capitalism” in
upper Germany: Leonhard Fronsperger’s “on the praise of self-interest”. Journal
of the History of Economic Thought, 43(3): 401-419.
10. Sora Sato (2021) Rethinking Burke and Smith: political economy and
foundations of industry. The European Journal of the History of Economic
Thought, DOI: 10.1080/ 09672567.2021.1914699.

Economics and social science in 18th century France

11. Musso, P. (2017) Religion and political economy in Saint Simon, The
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24(4): 809-827.

Late Ottoman economic thought (Οικονομική σκέψη στην ύστερη

Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία)
12. Kılınçoğlu, D.T. (2017).Islamic economics in the late Ottoman Empire.
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24(3): 528-554.

Part C: Contemporary economic thought: method, policy, problems

Economics and social sciences in interwar England (Οικονομολόγοι και
κοινωνικοί επιστήμονες στη Βρετανία του μεσοπολέμου)
13. Suprinyak, Carlos Eduardo and Thiago Dumont Oliveira (2018). Economists,
social scientists, and the reconstruction of the world order in interwar Britain. The
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25(6): 1282-1310.

Theories of consumption: A review

14. Stavros A. Drakopoulos (2021). The marginalization of absolute and relative
income hypotheses of consumption and the role of fiscal policy. The European
Journal of the History of Economic
Thought, DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2021.1946120.

History of economics and Psychology (Ιστορία της Οικονομικής και

Ψυχολογία)
15. Drakopoulos, S. and Katselidis, I. (2019). Classical and pre-marginalist ideas

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on the relationship between economics and psychology. History of Economic
Ideas, 27(1): 43-63.

The influence of Physics in the History of Economics (Η επίδραση της φυσικής

στην ιστορία της Οικονομικής)
16. Drakopoulos, S. and Katselidis, I. (2015).From Edgeworth to Econophysics:
A Methodological Perspective, Journal of Economic Methodology, 22(1): 77-95.

History of economic thought and economic history

17. Manioudis, Manolis and Dimitris Milonakis (2021). Smith’s Wealth of
Nations and the economic past: Setting the scene for economic history?, The
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28(1): 142-163.

Non-mainstream trends in 20th century economic thought

Η έννοια τηε επιδεικτικής κατανάλωσης στην Αμερικανική θεσμική σχολή
18. Wisman, J.D. (2019). Adam Smith and Thorstein Veblen on the pursuit of
status through consumption versus work. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43(1):
17-36.

Institutions and economics in American institutionalism (Θεσμοί και Οικονομική

στην παλαιά Αμερικανική θεσμική σχολή)
19. Broda, Ph. (2021). Institutions, economy and politics: The debate between
Commons and North. The European Journal of the History of Economic
Thought, 28(3): 419-435.
20. Katselidis, I.A. (2019). Institutions, policy and the labour market: The
contribution of the old institutional economics. Economic Thought, 8(2):13-30.

Non Western economic thought (Μη δυτική οικονομική σκέψη)

21. Leonard, R. (2019). E.F. Schumacher and the making of “Buddhist
economics” 1950 – 1973. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 41(2): 159-
186.

Feminist economics (Η Οικονομική του φύλου-φεμινιστικά οικονομικά)

22. Agenjo-Calderón, A. and Gálvez-Muñoz, L. (2019). Feminist economics:
Theoretical and political dimensions. American Journal of Economics and
Sociology, 78(1): 137-166

Heterodox critics of mainstream economics

23. Braun, E. (2021). The institutional preconditions of homo
economicus. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28(2): 231-246.
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 24. Nelson, R.H. (2019). Economic religion and the worship of progress.
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 78(2): 319-362.
25. Dow, S. (2013) “Formalism, rationality, and evidence: the case of
behavioural economics”, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 6, No.3:
26-43.

Soviet political economy

26. Ananyin, Oleg and Denis Melnik (2019). “Commodity Sui Generis”: The
discourses of Soviet political economy of socialism. History of Political Economy
51 (S1): 75–99.