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Historian of economics, culture and econ, author of 'Realizing the Values of Art' the biography of 'Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Economic Expertise' and 'Viennese Students of Civilization'.

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Home - The Bucharest Workshop in Mainline Political Economy Welcome to your site! This is your homepage, which is what most visitors will see when they come to your site for the first time.

My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity.

More information here bwmpe.eu

If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

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Home - The Bucharest Workshop in Mainline Political Economy Welcome to your site! This is your homepage, which is what most visitors will see when they come to your site for the first time.

My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity.

More information here bwmpe.eu

If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

12.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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JHET Online Writing Workshop: First Meeting, 7th Series The first meeting of the 7th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "The World of Scholarly Publ...

Our Writing Workshop is starting up again, and soon. Sign up before March 13, and get started by March 17.

Hosted by Harro Maas and Paul Dudenhefer you get mentorship from a leading researcher and editor in the field of the history of economic thought, all for free. So do sign up!

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Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics. An Interview with... Julien Gradoz: The idea for this interview arose when I realized there’s virtually no research specifically dedicated to book reviews in the history of economicsβ€”or even in economics more broadly. ...

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
I love writing book reviews. They’re still a place where you can debate ideas, something that’s becoming a bit rarer in academia. OEconomia is especially great for this.The editors give us plenty of room to engage fully with the books we review.

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A good day for #nokings

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A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...

Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production.

We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work!

doi.org/10.1007/s108...

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Our illustrations all come from the (performing) arts, we inquire for instance why crowd co-production might or might not work, and how credible commitments like 'the encore' can contribute to audience co-production.

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A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...

Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production.

We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work!

doi.org/10.1007/s108...

28.01.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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William I. "Controversy" Thomas Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short

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-...

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William I. "Controversy" Thomas Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short

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-...

23.01.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neon Liberalism #60: Minneapolis Under Siege Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of RenΓ©e Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with hi...

Neon Liberalism #60: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of RenΓ©e Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group in Minneapolis, and he recounts witnessing ICE abductions and confronting ICE agents.

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, On Liberty John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.

We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Latest issue | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Our December issue is out, with five article, four book reviews, and two letters to the editor.

This is the last issue edited by Pedro Duarte and JimΓ©na Hurtado. As incoming editors, we would like to take
the opportunity to express a great thanks for the excellent job they have done!

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15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics

➑️ Ε’conomia 15(3) β€” Accounting for Quality in Economics
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
πŸ”— journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.

This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

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This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

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This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

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FAMILY PLANNING AND POVERTY: BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, SEX EDUCATION, AND POVERTY IN MARSHALL, PARETO, AND WICKSELL | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core FAMILY PLANNING AND POVERTY: BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, SEX EDUCATION, AND POVERTY IN MARSHALL, PARETO, AND WICKSELL

New open-access article at JHET by Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Marianne Johnson, which discusses family economics and poverty around the turn of the 20th century:

doi.org/10.1017/S105...

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Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ... Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ...

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...

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This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school.

And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

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This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school.

And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

05.12.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europeβ€”while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"

Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

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Economics and gardening metaphors On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

28.11.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Economics and gardening metaphors On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

28.11.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
NON NOVA, NOVITER? HEINRICH DIETZEL AND THE LAST SIGH OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core NON NOVA, NOVITER? HEINRICH DIETZEL AND THE LAST SIGH OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY

New article at JHET: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

On Heinrich Dietzel's attempt to reconcile the different camps in the German Methodenstreit of the late 19th century.

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Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.

There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for β€œobstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

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This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago is about Saul Alinsky, the famous community organizer and author of Rules for Radicals. To my surprise, he studied crime, hanging out with Al Capone's gang, while studying sociology around 1930.

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/saul-alins...

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History of Climate Economics Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) BΓ©atrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

Antoine Missemer and two guest editors BΓ©atrice Cointe and Christophe Cassen are launching a call for papers for a special issue of Ε’conomia on the history of climate economics.

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

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ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: ANDERS CHYDENIUS ON THE GOALS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN IN THE 1760S | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: ANDERS CHYDENIUS ON THE GOALS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN IN THE 1760S

New JHET article out, open access.

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