Keynes's General Theory After Seventy Years (International Economic Association)

We are very grateful to the Monte dei Paschi di Siena for its generous sponsorship of the International Economic Association conference “Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years”, July 3 to 6, 2006, to the University of Siena for its support of the conference, and to Valerie Natzios and Robert Mundell for their wonderful hospitality at the Palazzo Mundell in Santa Colomba, where the conference was held. In addition to the more formal papers collected here, the participants in the conference had the great treat of hearing C. Lowell Harris’s recollections of how Keynes’s General Theory was received at Columbia University in 1937, when Professor Harris began his graduate studies there. We thank Fay Sun for her work on the index to this volume. Thanks are also due to Siena for being Siena: in addition to the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, the conference also marked the centenary of Keynes’s visit to Siena, and one can easily understand why he was so delighted with Siena and Tuscany.

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The Return of the Gift European History of a Global Idea

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse
of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacifi c Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh signifi cance from global contexts.

Harry Liebersohn is a professor of history in the Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, including Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1871–1923 (1988); Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians (Cambridge University Press, 1998); and The Travelers’ World: Europe to the Pacifi c (2006). His article “Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing,” which appeared in the American Historical Review , was awarded the 1995 William Koren, Jr., Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies. Professor Liebersohn was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in
1996–1997 and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) in 2006–2007.

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