Including a Symposium on Ludwig Lachmann

Luca Fiorito received his PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and is currently 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. 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 and methodology of economics, studying the interplay of social, political, and economic ideas in early modern England, and the institutionalization of economics in Brazil during the postwar era. He has published several papers on these and 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 1. Introduction to a Symposium on Ludwig Lachmann; Giampaolo Garzarelli 2. Capital, Calculation, and Coordination; Peter J. Boettke and Ennio E. Piano 3. Lachman and Shackle: On the Joint Production of Interpretation Instruments; Erwin Dekker and Pavel Kuchař 4. Lachmann and Shumpeter - Some Reflections; Martin Fransman 5. Ludwig Lachmann and the Austrians; Peter Lewin 6. Lachmann, Keynes and Subjectivism; Christopher Torr 7. Reminiscences of Ludwig Lachmann; Martin Fransman, Giampaolo Garzarelli, Peter Lewin, Jochen Runde, and Christopher Torr PART II 8. Gained in Translation: The French Edition of The General Theory by JM Keynes; Hélène de Largentaye PART III 9. Introduction to a Collection of Reviews and Commentaries on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains; Andrew Farrent and Scott Scheall 10. The Allure and Tragedy of Ideological Blunders Left, Right and Center: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains; Peter J. Boettke 11. James M. Buchanan and Democratic Classical Liberalism; David Ellerman 12. Reading the Hermeneutics of Suspicion with Suspicion: A Review Essay on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America; Ross B. Emmett 13. Poking a Hornet's Nest: The Debate on Democracy in Chains; Gary Mongiovi 14. Freedom of Association and its Discontents: The Calculus of Consent and the Civil Rights Movement; Vlad Tarko and Santiago Jose Gangotena

Consisting of 14 contributions, this volume presents a symposium on the work of Ludwig Lachmann and the Austrian School of economics, "The Legacy of Ludwig Lachmann: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Institutions, Agency and Uncertainty," held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2017, and a collection of reviews and commentaries on Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains. Researchers from the US, Europe, Ecuador, and South Africa discuss the capital theoretic side of the socialist calculation debate; the joint production of interpretation instruments and the relationship between institutional orders and capital structures; Lachmann's subjectivist approach to economics and its consequences and his intellectual relationship with Joseph Schumpeter; the relationship of Lachmann's views to the Austrian School of economics before, during, and after his time; his views on John Maynard Keynes and probability theory; and his public and private persona. The second section addresses the French edition of the General Theory by Keynes, followed by reviews and commentaries of MacLean's book.