Episode Thirty Three

<p>Scott, Gerardo and Carlos review three recent additions to the literature in the history of economic thought and economic methodology: Gerardo discusses a paper on the role of the “economic priest” in the cooperative movement in Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; Scott reviews a paper addressing two contrasting views of ecological rationality in the works of Vernon Smith and Gerd Gigerenzer; and Carlos discusses a paper about the evolving meaning of “consumption” as an economic concept and the role of <em>intoxicants</em> in crafting its early uses.</p> <p>If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls):</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">THE CLERGY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, AND THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN IRELAND, 1880–1932<br /> Patrick Doyle<br /> <a href= "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01916599.2020.1747226"> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01916599.2020.1747226</a></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">TWO TYPES OF ECOLOGICAL RATIONALITY: OR HOW TO BEST COMBINE PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS<br /> Erwin Dekker and Blaž Remic<br /> <a href= "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1560486"> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1560486</a></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">INTOXICANTS AND THE INVENTION OF ‘CONSUMPTION’ <br /> Phil Withington<br /> <a href= "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12936">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12936</a></p> <p><em>Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar</em> is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: <a href= "http://historyofeconomics.org">http://historyofeconomics.org</a></p> <p> </p>