SPENGLER (Joseph J.)
Origins of Economic Thought and Justice.
A presentation copy, inscribed by the author ‘To Mary Katherine & Bob Clark in appreciation of extraordinarily fine work in demographic economics Dot and Joe Spengler Dec 12 1980’ in blue ink to front free endpaper. The recipient, the economist Robert L. Clark, was a colleague of Spengler’s at Duke University with whom he collaborated on several journal articles and co-authored the book Economics of Individual and Population Aging (1980).
A sprawling study by the distinguished American demographer and historian of economic thought Joseph J. Spengler (1902-1991), tracing the key factors in the interaction between conceptions of justice and economic thought, from their beginnings in pre-classical Mesopotamia, India, and China and Western in Ancient Greek thought; through to the emergence of “scientific economics” in the seventeenth century; to the present where the two disciplines, each now highly formalised, interact in John Rawls’s and related theories of justice (contemporary review by Stephen T. Worland in the Journal of Economic Issues).
