The Orderly Economists: Transatlantic Reformulations of Twentieth-Century Political Economy
该专题通过分析四位经济学家（欧肯、西蒙斯、丁伯根、拉赫曼）的思想，探讨秩序概念在政治经济学理论中的核心作用，对理解当代西方民主秩序脆弱性有参考价值。
The four articles that constitute this minisymposium reconstruct the politico-economic discourses of Walter Eucken (1891–1950), Henry C. Simons (1899–1946), Jan Tinbergen (1903–94), and Ludwig M. Lachmann (1906–90). Similar to the “worldly philosophers” in Robert Heilbroner's best seller, these four “orderly economists” were system builders who analyzed their time and also provided visions of what political economy could achieve, particularly during the fragile interwar and early postwar decades on both sides of the Atlantic. The unifying theme in the four articles is the emphasis on the notion of order as the primary element of politico-economic theorizing and the role of the political economist, especially in normative debates about orders of economy and society. The minisymposium also connects to a renewed interest within several communities in the history of the social sciences about the topicality of order-based political economy amid the increasingly fragile orders in Western democracies today.The editor of the minisymposium and the contributors express their gratitude to the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University for organizing a one-day conference on January 11, 2020, which was of great value for improving the articles and enhancing the interconnections across them.