Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought

Luca Fiorito received his PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently Associate 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. He has published many works on the contributions of the institutionalists and on the relationship between economics and eugenics. Scott Scheall is Assistant Professor of Social Science with Arizona State University's College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Arizona State in 2012. Scott is a former Research Fellow with Duke University's Center for the History of Political Economy and a former Postdoctoral Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at George Mason University. He has published extensively on the history and methodology of the Austrian School of economics. Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the history of economic thought and economic methodology, studying in particular the interplay between social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of academic economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and other related themes in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Latin American Independence (Routledge, 2017).

• Part I: Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought: Two Centuries in Search of Originality; Guest edited by Andrés Álvarez Chapter 1. An Introduction to a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought: Two Centuries in Search of Originality; Andrés Álvarez Chapter 2. The Regeneration – Between the Doctrine and the Need: The Debate Over Free Banking and the Legal Tender in Colombia (1880–1903); Edna Carolina Sastoque-Ramírez Chapter 3. Francisco Barrera Lavalle: Early 20th-century Mexican Currency and Banking Specialist. Critic of the 1905 Monetary Reform by which Mexico Adopted the Gold Standard; Ricardo Solis Rosales Chapter 4. Challenging a Money Doctor: Raúl Prebisch vs. Sir Otto Niemeyer on the Creation of the Argentine Central Bank; Florencia Sember  Chapter 5. Heterodox Central Banking in the Periphery; Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo Part II: Essays  Chapter 6. On The Historical Roots of Natural Capital in the Writings of Carl Linnaeus; C. Tyler DesRoches Chapter 7. Under Risk, Over Time, Regarding Other People: Language and Rationality Within Three Dimensions; Dorian Jullien

The slim volume contains four papers from a symposium on theories of money and banking in post-independence Latin America, and two essays on the historical roots of natural capital in the writings of Carl Linnaeus, and the language and rationality of economic behavior. The four symposium papers revisit the monetary policy implemented by the Regenerative Government in Columbia, Francisco Barrera Lavalle's vision of Mexico's monetary reform of 1905, and Raul Prebisch's ideas on the creation of the Argentine central bank.