Shannon C. Stimson

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Shannon C. Stimson
Born (1951-10-08) October 8, 1951 (age 72)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
AwardsDavid and Elaine Spitz Prize
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Main interests
Adam Smith, history of economics
Websitevcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/shannon-c-stimson

Shannon C. Stimson (born October 8, 1951)[1] is an American political theorist and historian of ideas, whose more recent work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of the early modern period through the nineteenth century. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Government department at Georgetown University. Her academic posts have included appointments at Harvard University (1984-1991), UC Berkeley (1991-2014), the Fulbright Professorship in the United Kingdom, the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, the John K. Castle Chair in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University and she has been a Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens' College, Cambridge on two occasions. Her research has been supported through fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, as well as by several prize fellowships. Her articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes, journals of political thought, economics, the history of economic thought, and political science in America and Europe. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review,[2] the Adam Smith Review,[3] and the Journal of Politics.

Research[edit]

Stimson's early work focused on the intersection of legal, constitutional, and revolutionary thought in 17th and 18th century Anglo-America. Her work focused on the study of both English and colonial juries in revolutionary periods and introduced to political theory the concept of "judicial space" as an incisive tool for organizing, interpreting, and evaluating various strands of English and American political thought, and for challenging the assumption of a basic unity of vision at the roots of Anglo-American jurisprudence. She introduced the judicial space concept to political theory in order to account for the development of the highly political role of the new Supreme Court in late 18th-century and early 19th-century American political thought, a judicial body having no clear, previous counterpart in English jurisprudence.

Stimson's work in the history and theory of political economy has focused on the intersection and mutual interplay of economic and political theorizing and debate in the writing of the classical political economists after Adam Smith. This work, undertaken together with Cambridge economist Murray Milgate, has emphasized one set of conceptual transformations in politics and political economy that took place during a part of what has been called the classical period of political economy, and directly challenged the casual association of Smith's name and ideological imprimatur with contemporary neoclassical and neoconservative economic arguments for the reestablishment of an "invisible hand" as the prime regulator of complex national and globalized markets, as well as the unsubstantiated belief in a putatively Smithian inspired version of perfect competition to promote efficiency in the allocation of resources such that all would be fully utilized to the greatest social and individual benefit. The importance of her work on this topic has been recognized in 2011 with its receipt of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought.[4] This international award, honoring the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in the previous two years, has in the past honored as well the work of political thinkers and philosophers such as John Rawls, Sheldon Wolin, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Dahl, and Joseph Raz.

Selected bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1990). The American Revolution in the law: Anglo-American jurisprudence before John Marshall. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691078748.
    • Reprinted in 2014 as: Stimson, Shannon C. (July 2014). The American Revolution in the law: Anglo-American jurisprudence before John Marshall. ISBN 9780691604381.
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Milgate, Murray (1991). Ricardian politics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691042787.
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Milgate, Murray (2011). After Adam Smith: a century of transformation in politics and political economy. Princeton, New Jersey Woodstock: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691152349.
  • Stimson, Shannon C. T.R.Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population (1803 edition). Editor and contributor. Yale University Press, 2018.

Chapters in books[edit]

  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1987), "Jonathan Swift", in Milgate, Murray; Eatwell, John; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, vol. IV, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1987), "Social Democracy", in Milgate, Murray; Eatwell, John; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, vol. IV, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1987), "Rousseau", in Milgate, Murray; Eatwell, John; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, vol. IV, London New York Tokyo: Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen, ISBN 9780333740408
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Welch, Cheryl B. (1989), "Republicanism and the recovery of the political in Adam Smith", in Milgate, Murray (ed.), Critical issues in social thought, London San Diego: Academic Press, ISBN 9780124962484
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1990), "A jury of the country: common sense philosophy and the jurisprudence of James Wilson", in Sher, Richard B.; Smitten, Jeffrey R. (eds.), Scotland and America in the age of the enlightenment, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691055534
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1993), "Reflections on the economic interpretation of the constitution", in Stimson, Shannon C.; Hart, Vivien (eds.), Writing a national identity: political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written constitution, Manchester, UK New York, New York, USA: Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9780719035890
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1995), "Alexander Hamilton", in Kloppenberg, James T.; Fox, Richard Wightman (eds.), A companion to American thought, Malden, Massachusetts Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 9780631206569
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1995), "John Adams", in Kloppenberg, James T.; Fox, Richard Wightman (eds.), A companion to American thought, Malden, Massachusetts Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, ISBN 9780631206569
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1995), "Foreword", in Post, C. Gordon (ed.), A disquisition on government (and selections from the discourse), Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., pp. vii–x, ISBN 9780872202931
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (1995), "Changing perspectives on John C. Calhoun", in Post, C. Gordon (ed.), Calhoun: a disquisition on government (and selections from the discourse), Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., ISBN 9780872202931
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Milgate, Murray (1998), "Hume on law and economics", in Newman, Peter K. (ed.), The new Palgrave dictionary of economics and the law (3 volume set), vol. 2, London New York: Macmillan Reference Stockton Press, ISBN 9780333676677
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2005), "Dugald Stewart", in Claeys, Gregory (ed.), Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought, London New York: Routledge, pp. 459–460, ISBN 9780415244190
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2005), "Dugald Stewart", in Claeys, Gregory (ed.), Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century thought, London New York: Routledge, pp. 459–460, ISBN 9780415244190
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2008), "Constitutionalism and the rule of law", in Phillips, Anne; Bonnie, Honig; Dryzek, John S. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of political theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 317–332, ISBN 9780199548439
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Bevir, Mark; Adcock, Robert (2007), "A history of political science: how? what? why?", in Stimson, Shannon C.; Bevir, Mark; Adcock, Robert (eds.), Modern political science Anglo-American exchanges since 1880, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 1–17, ISBN 9780691128733
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Bevir, Mark; Adcock, Robert (2007), "Historicizing the new institutionalism(s)", in Stimson, Shannon C.; Bevir, Mark; Adcock, Robert (eds.), Modern political science Anglo-American exchanges since 1880, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 259–289, ISBN 9780691128733
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2014), "Adam Smith (definition)", in Coole, Diana H.; Gibbons, Michael; Ellis, Elisabeth; et al. (eds.), The encyclopedia of political thought, 8 volume set, Chichester, West Sussex, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9781405191296
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2014), "Classical Political Economy (definition)", in Coole, Diana H.; Gibbons, Michael; Ellis, Elisabeth; et al. (eds.), The encyclopedia of political thought, 8 volume set, Chichester, West Sussex, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9781405191296
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2015), "The General Will after Rousseau: Smith and Rousseau on Sociability and Inequality", in Farr, James; Williams, David (eds.), The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2018), "Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population", in O'Flaherty, Niall (ed.), Essay on the Principle of Population (1803) by Thomas Robert Malthus, New Haven: Yale University Press, Rethinking the Western Tradition Series
  • Stimson, Shannon C. (2021), "The Political Arithmetic of Transmutation: Heterodoxy and Political Economy in Sir William Petty (1623–1687)", in van der Tol, Mariëtta; Adenitire, John; Brown, Carys; Kempson, E. S. (eds.), From Toleration to Religious Freedom: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Bern: Peter Lang

Edited volumes[edit]

  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Hart, Vivien (1993). Writing a national identity: political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written constitution. Manchester, UK New York, New York, USA: Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London Distributed in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780719035890.
  • Stimson, Shannon C.; Bevir, Mark; Adcock, Robert (2007). Modern political science Anglo-American exchanges since 1880. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691128733.
Reviewed in Reviewer (2010). "Book reviews". The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. 15 (4): 511. doi:10.1080/10848770.2010.489324.

Journal articles[edit]

Book reviews[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Stimson, Shannon C." Library of Congress. Retrieved August 11, 2014. (Shannon C. Stimson) data sheet (b. 10-08-51)
  2. ^ American Political Science Review
  3. ^ "Editorial Board". The Adam Smith Review, sponsored by the International Adam Smith Society.
  4. ^ International Conference for the Study of Political Thought

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