what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Du bist Dissertant*in, arbeitest an einem wirtschafts-, sozial- oder umwelthistorischen Thema, wirst an einer österreichischen Uni (zweit)betreut und möchtest erste Ergebnisse präsentieren und dich vernetzen? Dann solltest du dich für den 2-tägigen Workshop in Salzburg bewerben! #envhist

‘“I want a husband who is between sixty and seventy years old,” announced a Parisian classified ad in 1813. “If possible, I’d prefer a former nobleman whose misfortunes, which are regrettably common, ruined him. I want him penniless.”‘ Jonny Bunning on matchmaking: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:

New publication! 🥳

On this day in 1926, the General Strike began in the UK. The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) and @brepols.net have published a new reading list to mark the 100th anniversary. Click here to explore the free reading list:

Penned by my stellar EB colleagues: "We suggest that now is a useful moment in which to think again, to bring ‘the state’ back into view and examine the tools that are available to make sense of the present. [cont.]

Stell dir Hilfe vor, die für Jahrzehnte wirkt. Der Verein Energiekollektiv stellt einkommensschwachen Haushalten kostenlos Balkonkraftwerke zur Verfügung --> weniger Stromkosten, mehr Klimaschutz, keine Abhängigkeit von Fossildikaturen. Jetzt spenden: energiekollektiv.at#spenden

J'ai réalisé pour @franceculture.fr un podcast sur l'histoire des méthodes que les économistes ont développé pour donner une valeur, ou un prix, aux "choses de la vie" depuis 100 ans La série de 10 (courts) épisodes est ici: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Es war eine Diss und ist nun ein Buch! Herzliche Gratulation Ludo Green. verlag.gta.arch.ethz.ch/de/gta:book_...

Das Klima der Philosophie. Die ökologische Krise als Herausforderung für die Philosophie- und Ideengeschichte Herausgegeben von Melanie Sehgal und Martin Mulsow Erscheinungstermin: 13.10.2026 www.suhrkamp.de/buch/das-kli...

nice easter surprise: book has arrived 🪺🪺 its about the rise of cultural development in europe’s peripheries (in german). will be available OA in a few weeks here: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383536056...

Rezension: Im Buch «Auf Pump» untersucht Matthias Ruoss Ratenkredite im industriellen Kapitalismus. Cathrine Davies empfiehlt es auf HSozKult allen, «die sich für Geschlechtergeschichte, die Geschichte des Kapitalismus, des Konsums und des Eigentums interessieren» www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #skystorians

I have question from a colleague about the history of the concept of human capital. Any advice? Literature recommendations? @shoet.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @cleocz.bsky.social @vhalsmayer.bsky.social

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.

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

Monday Listening: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar episode 97, Verena Halsmayer (University of Vienna) speaks about her book Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow's Model as an Artifact (CUP 2024), Interventionist Social Knowledge, and alternative economic planning. hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...

Verena Halsmayer, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 279, $130 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781316515181. Goulven Rubin doi.org/10.1017/S105...

Biete am 17.4. eine Masterclass zu "Die Geisteswissenschaften in den 1990ern" an. Der Kurs richtet sich an Masterstudierende und Promovierende (nicht nur HU!). Anmeldefrist: 15.3.2026. Plätze sind begrenzt. Mehr Infos im Link. Please spread the word! www.appliedhumanities.net/events-items...

Seit gestern online: Das Alltags|Ökonomien-Blog, welches Beiträge eines Workshops zu den Haushaltsbüchern der Sammlung Frauennachlässe (Uni Wien) dokumentiert - gehostet bei @dehypotheses - mit Dank an die Herausgeberi*nnen Sebastian Felten, Li Gerhalter und Verena Halsmayer sowie die […]

Sehr schön war heute die Tea hour in der Sammlung Frauennachlässe, bei der Li Gerhalter, @sebastianfelten.bsky.social und @vhalsmayer.bsky.social den neuen Weblog Alltags|Ökonomien vorgestellt haben, der ab sofort online ist! haushalt.hypotheses.org

Über die "Unordnung der Raster" und eine Explosion in der Rastrieranstalt hat @adresscomptoir.bsky.social gesprochen... haushalt.hypotheses.org/874

Sophie Hopfner hat von den „diaristischen Wirtschaftsaufzeichnungen“ einer niederösterreichischen Bäuerin haushalt.hypotheses.org/2537

... und Matthias Donabaum über Alltag und Konsum im 18. Jahrhundert erzählt. haushalt.hypotheses.org/662

Ein Zusammendenken von Haushaltsbüchern, Objekten und Oral history in der Technik- und Geschlechtergeschichte hat Sophie Gerber angeregt haushalt.hypotheses.org/667

Meanwhile

Book launch for “Methods in the Philosophy of Science: a user’s guide”. Ftf in Exeter and online on the 29th of Sept feat Sophie Veigl, Kerry McKenzie, Hasok Chang, and me. It should be fun! (the book will be open access in July, contact me in the meantime) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... #philsci

In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe. @fdonoff.bsky.social

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.

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.