Massimo M. Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi (Eds). Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920) (Book Review‪)‬

Massimo M. Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi (eds). Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848-1920). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. 2005. Pp. xvii + 315. ISBN 0-7546-3965-7. US$100/55 [pounds sterling] (cloth). This book constitutes an international research exercise that expands upon the collective research already completed by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi on the role of economists in parliament (2002, 2003). Together with a comprehensive illustration of the case of Italian economists in parliamentary forums written by the editors, some well-known specialists in the history of economic thought in different countries illustrate the role of economists in the assemblies of Portugal (A. Almodovar and J. L. Cardoso), Belgium (G. Erreygers and B. Mosselmans), Spain (S. Almenar), Britain (R. Backhouse), France (Y. Breton), Germany (H. Hagemann and M. Roesch), Greece (M. Psalidopoulos and A. Syrmaloglou), Japan (J. Kumagai), and the United States (B. W. Bateman).