We are thrilled to share this! 🎉 Our PhD student & Santorio Fellow @sarahseinitzer.bsky.social has a new post on @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social blog Forma Fluens: “Bergsucht and Miner’s Chest” ⛏️🫁—about miners’ health, morbi metallici, & early social care. Go give it a read! #HistMed #Mining

Georg Seeßlen und Markus Metz mit einem Radio-Essay zur Geschichte technokratischer Gesellschaftsvorstellungen www.deutschlandfunk.de/technokratie...

hagen schulz-forberg, james quilligan and I sat down a couple of months ago to talk about planetary thought in the early soviet union and why it's worth studying it today. the full conversation is now out: online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/6...

New Peoples & Things episode this week features Verena Halsmayer talking about her award-winning book, _Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact_, including how it relates to the economics of technological change. newbooksnetwork.com/managing-gro...

Vergewaltigung in der Ehe wurde in Deutschland erst 1997 kriminalisiert. Die vorausgegangenen Kämpfe von Feministinnen analysiert Hannah Catherine Davies in „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat“. Im Podcast spricht sie mit @hannahschmidtott.bsky.social über Wandel, Staat und Strafe. 🎧: tinyurl.com/2bjjkh5e

New book: Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia, by Marko Grdešić & Mislav Žitko amzn.to/3JoWy1M

A review of Elizabeth Popp Berman's book (Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy), by Tiago Mata muse.jhu.edu/article/971595

Very happy to see my article “Join us in preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs”: Robert Reich, the “New Economy,” and mythic thinking as interventionist knowledge - doi.org/10.1017/S026... - finally out in Science in Context.

She’s here!

new & online💥 cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen ″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″ cache.ch/verwalteteum...

🚨Workshop Announcement🚨 THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING: RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav December 4-5, 2025 Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-gr...

books aren't written and published, they grow infinitely slowly into the world, one word, page, book proposal, grey strand of hair, sleepless night and website at a time

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward? A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

The first issue of History of Social Science is available now buff.ly/3QAwv7M

Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am eventually going to take up @undercoverhist.bsky.social s idea of doing a podcast episode on how to write good reviewer reports. SO I need your help, send me 3 things every reviewer report needs AND/OR the worst reviewer report who have ever received (provide example and reasoning) 🙏

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET. In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

Wer mit der S1 ins Marchfeld fährt, kommt an den ausgelagerten Büchern der UB Wien vorbei.

Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop series is kicking off soon. You can sign up until this Sunday, the 14th of September. Aimed at both non-native and native speakers writing about the history of economic thought and looking to improve their prose. Run by Paul Dudenhefer longtime editor at HOPE.

My review of Verena Halsmeyer's unique book-length history of the Solow growth-model is online. It is a great look at modelling in economics, the particular MIT-style of modeling, as well as a great case-study of how academic and policy prestige come about.

🎉 Join us for a free online event. 📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT. With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism. @alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

Mit tollen Beiträgen, u.a. von @gesinekrueger.bsky.social und Michaela Oberhofer, Madlen Kobi und Adam Przywara, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und Niklaus Remund und von mir und @mrtzg.bsky.social.

Ist im BMI und/oder dem Verfassungsschutz jemand übergeschnappt? Die Gedenkstätte Persmanhof wird gestürmt, weil ein dort stattfindendes antifaschistisches Bildungscamp einen sittenwidrige Umgang mit einer Gedenkstätte darstelle? Bitte was?! www.partizani.at/novice/press...

Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist. zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold: "The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Word is spreading about our amazing Central European History Convention in Vienna July 17-19, with 55 panels, keynotes by Peter Haslinger + Tara Zahra, roundtables/ reception in honor of Pieter Judson, research lab, poster presentations, + book stalls! Share widely! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

What do economists do in central banks? How did they come to play such a central role? We're excited to share the first draft of a Cambridge University Press Elements book project on how economists became key figures in central banking over the twentieth century. ▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

A special issue on HET now out in the Review of Development & Change! 🤩 journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/... Articles on competition, environmental economics, agrarian question & structural change, village studies & Indian economics, Marx's methodological holism, Marx's framework, women in HET.

Grad gemerkt, dass mein Kapitel ‘Patente als Vermögenswerte. Geistiges Eigentum als Subjekt und Objekt des Markts’ erschienen ist. Too many things happening rn... Vielen Dank an die Herausgeber N Angefeld, J Blumenfeld @cominsitu.bsky.social, T Wesche. Leseprobe: media.suhrkamp.de/mediadeliver...

New issue published! **Economic Miracles and Their Afterlives** read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact [email protected] or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

Thanks for the discussions and for the organisation @shoet.bsky.social

… and reflect on discourses on inequality by the tro tro drivers and film poster makers in Ghana (fascinating research by Gerardo Serra)

Roni Hirsch, @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and organised two sessions at #eshet2025 on knowledge beyond the common places of history of economics: we discussed the Lucas Plan and planning from the floor shop for socially useful products (amazing prez by Verena!)

Coming soon: one of the best books I've read this year, and probably the clearest and deepest answer to the question "what's an economic model" By the great Verena Halsmayer #econsky cambridge.org/core/books/m...

🎉 I’m incredibly excited that, after so much time, my book Conversations on Rational Choice will be published by CUP. It features 23 interviews with leading rational choice scholars and their critics, each accompanied by in-depth introductions to their work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Käthe-Leichter-Gastprofessur für feministische Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Schwerpunkt "Soziale Ungleichheit. Vermögenstransfer zwischen den Geschlechtern & Generationen"; 75 % Teilbeschäftigung von 15.09.2025 bis 28.02.2026. Bewerbung bis 7.5.25. genderausschuss.univie.ac.at/kaethe-leich...

JHI Blog welcomes submissions for a forum on the relationship between new work in intellectual history and political economy. Submit a proposal by May 15. Read the call here:

Wir waren zu Gast im H-Soz-Kult Podcast – wir sprachen über neue Publikationsformate für die humanities, Reputationsökonomien, die Frage nach dem Geld und Zukunftswünsche. Kurz: über die Malaise im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren und die Freude am Selber Machen —>

The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025! hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...

1/n It’s been a long week, and we're only halfway, so here is a fun story of how new classical macroeconomics came to France - not the whole story, but part of the fabric of how economic ideas do travel As any 1980s French story, it involves postmodernism, art, fashion & nudes (and macro) #econsky

Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) was among the scholars who were forced to emigrate in the 1930s. In a new article Donata Romizi argues for Zilsel's deep political engagement, including his connection to Red Vienna. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

CFP: Truth Politics between Science and Society. Political Epistemologies of the 1990s Science Wars https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-153728 Erfurt, 08.07.2025-09.07.2025, Research Center “Politics of Truth/ Political Epistemologies”, University of Erfurt; Chair for the History of Science, …

🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

My book will be out in May! Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History, with Cambridge University Press's book series "Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics". See here for more details: www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

And related: Ute Tellmann (TU Darmstadt) is looking for a postdoc (full) and a PhD student (65 %) to work on the financialisation of waterbody protection in the EU. Profile: Sociology, cultural economy, environmental humanities; German & English skills. Deadline 10 March 2025