Check out the latest episode with Dr. Saarang Narayan all about #Swadeshi. Listen here: ceterisneverparibus.net/an-interview... #historyofeconomics #historyofindianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social
Highly recommended experience for young historian of econ thought!
Article: This Working Day: Marx and the conceptualization of capitalist wage labour, by George Lafferty
doi.org/10.1093/cje/...
A review of the book edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant (A History of Economic Thought in France), by Andrés Alvarez & Jimena Hurtado
doi.org/10.1017/S105...
This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
Thanks
Article: Separating the wheat from the chaff: a textual history of turgot’s letters on the grain trade, by Richard van den Berg
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
WP: One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought, by Thomas Delcey, Aurélien Goutsmedt & Alexandre Truc
ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx...
We remind you that registrations for the European Society for the History of Economic Thought -HES joint conference stop on January 16. So, apply and join us in Nice!
ASSA 2026, Philadelphia. A great moment for our community with well 5 HES sessions, one co-organized with the Association for Evolutionary Economics.
(In the picture, Marc Flandreau-
Who investigated the possible influence of 19th century actuarial knowledge on Keynes)
Deadline extended, January 16
Back at the @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social after a long time for the last talk in 2025. Very exciting as it brings back a lot of memories. In the paper, we use network analysis to study whether model transfer might play a role in waking up sleeping beauty papers in science.
Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.
Article: Pluralism meets diversity in the philosophy of economics, by Sheila Dow
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
New book: A History of Spanish Economic Thought: From Scholasticism to Keynesianism, by Jesús Astigarraga & Juan Zabalza
amzn.to/4qZUXAb
A review of the book edited by Iwo Amelung & Bertram Schefold (European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance), by Minghui Hu
doi.org/10.1017/S105...
Alasdair MacIntyre on Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
A new issue of HOPE is available now. This is a special issue on 'The History of Economics Unbound'
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/issue/5...
My final paper in my graduate school history of economics class argued (channeling Keynes) that the mercantilists were making an early effective demand argument and they weren't always making the dumb arguments Smith suggested they were. Sort of like Keynes and Pigou! Plus ça change.
New book: Adam Smith and the East India Company, by Mark Donoghue
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Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online
et.worldeconomicsassociation.org/issues/vol-1...
Maybe of interest: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
The cover of the book
A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social
On this day in 1896 Gunnar Myrdal was born. He won the Economics Nobel Prize alongside Hayek in 1974. His wife won the Peace Prize in 1982 and so became one of only 4 couples that have both won a Nobel. Alas, we don't have a podcast on Myrdal but have a read... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_...
#EconSky Abram Bergson was 54 years old when he taught comparative economic systems at Harvard (1968). The course reading list and final exam questions have been transcribed. Bon mot of the exam: his name for a theoretical market socialist economy: Shangri-Lange www.irwincollier.com/harvard-read...
#EconSky A half-century ago William J. Baumol taught the first semester of the two semester core sequence in microeconomic theory at Princeton. View the course reading list, study questions, midterm and final exam. www.irwincollier.com/princeton-va...
Absolutely. An open access book on evidential pluralism:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought:
doi.org/10.1017/S105...
Bon petit samedi soir.
