A new issue of Œconomia. History | Methodology | Philosophy is available now journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

New PhD-student run journal in the history of economics, Oikonomos, has just published its first issue oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

I remember when economists spoke of premature deindustrialization in Asia and Africa. Now the Trump administration appears set on turning back the clock, and reindustrialize the USA. It might well mean that the supposedly 'premature' can pick up the baton of the knowledge and tech economy.

This hits so close to home. We are only off the H1B for a year and a half. On the one hand very thankful my employee was so supportive with the green card procedure, on the other hand very angry at the closing of opportunities for so many.

This Disney cancelation is not the easiest thing to explain to the kids. But our no. 2 is now explaining to her younger brother what a boycott is using Rosa Parks as an example. Great parenting moment. Admittedly, it also involved negotiations over what they could finish right now before canceling.

This hits so close to home. We are only off the H1B for a year and a half. On the one hand very thankful my employee was so supportive with the green card procedure, on the other hand very angry at the closing of opportunities for so many.

A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.

Was sent a very nice image from the WINIR conference in Prague

"Don't have empathy because he didn't" is precisely wrong. If we strive to be good, and we must, that means striving to be better than those who aren't. It means being ethical towards even the unethical. It means being virtuous towards even the unvirtuous. It means maintaining our humanity.

Under any system, meaning is something that people need to find or make. The idea that restricting freedom of movement, restricting trade, etc. will give people meaningful lives is wrong. Instead, these illiberal policies coercively limit the range of ways that people can find and create meaning.

Powerful piece. And how goddamn sad we find ourselves here

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

The September issue of JHET is out (vol. 47:3) We have six new articles (4OA), on the Road(s) to Serfdom, the origins of financial economics, Fred Taylor and Frank Knight, Teaching GE Theory, Smith on the East India monopoly and Hayek and Aristotle. As well as five OA book reviews. Check it out!

We are now on Bluesky. Follow us from updates about new articles and book reviews in the journal, as well as the JHET writing workshops and other relevant events, workshops and conferences! The new editorial team Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Harro Maas

The Journal for the History of Economic Thought is now on Bluesky, give it a follow for updates on new articles, book reviews, and CfPs: jhetjournal.bsky.social

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.

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.

I coauthored amicus brief in this case, for @cato.org, @brennancenter.org, and others. Good decision; 130 pp. dissent by J. Oldham very not persuasive. Will have more to say later. For now see our brief: www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

Perhaps most stimulating paper I've read this year explores the economic consequences of attention being scarce, rivalrous, cognitive, and volitional. Reading it while listening to the Tony Rice Unit and drinking a lovely Jester King beer gets rather meta as my attention splits among them.

New book: Adam Smith’s Theory of Society: Social Rules for Order in Society and Economy, by Vernon L. Smith amzn.to/4oV2IXh

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"The multiplex order in the eastern Indian Ocean was a highly robust and resilient order that lasted for centuries even in the absence of a grand design. It did not depend exclusively on any single polity, not even imperial China." asianreviewofbooks.com/excerpt-from...

Hayek in het Nederlands, interview uit FEM, 1975

“Savage, de Finetti, and the making of The Foundations of Statistics, 1949-1954” has been published and is now available online: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MTAJI...

Lots of great info here for DC folks -- if you find this stuff at all useful and can afford it, subscribe to the @51st.news!

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Now online at the European Journal for the History of Thought, my review of Slobodian's most recent book Hayek’s Bastards. There is lots to like in the book, but I zoom in on the notion of bastards to analyze what that term actually implies: offshoots, hijackers, or deliberate corruption of Hayek?

Now online at the European Journal for the History of Thought, my review of Slobodian's most recent book Hayek’s Bastards. There is lots to like in the book, but I zoom in on the notion of bastards to analyze what that term actually implies: offshoots, hijackers, or deliberate corruption of Hayek?

It also struck me at #libcon25 conference that resistance liberalism has an incredible amount to learn from liberals who have worked and lived in unfree countries. Pivoting to a resistabce pov from a situation in which liberalism has been the status quo for so long is going to be hard, very hard

It also struck me at #libcon25 conference that resistance liberalism has an incredible amount to learn from liberals who have worked and lived in unfree countries. Pivoting to a resistabce pov from a situation in which liberalism has been the status quo for so long is going to be hard, very hard

i was also very struck by Sabina Ćudić's commentary on being an effective liberal politician from an explicitly liberal, multiethnic party from boznia-herzegovina--she said, you can't just react with outrage to whatever the enemy does. outrage is cheap. and people don't trust it.

Nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing literal random people snatched off the streets during a federally back ethnic cleansing campaign while chuds sit back and scream "IT DOESN'T MATTER, THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN BAD UNDER KAMALA TOO!"

Day 2 of Liberalism for the 21st century. Kicking the day off with perspectives on liberal internationalism. Organized by the Unpopulist and the Institute for the study of modern Authoritarianism #libcon25

New paper on extended cognition and markets by @pavelkuchar.bsky.social With: "a theory of competition as socially extended cognition, where knowledge creation and institutional evolution occur through shared cognitive infrastructures rather than merely through individual error-correction."

New paper on extended cognition and markets by @pavelkuchar.bsky.social With: "a theory of competition as socially extended cognition, where knowledge creation and institutional evolution occur through shared cognitive infrastructures rather than merely through individual error-correction."

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.

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.

On Polycentrism and the New Classical Liberalism. Neoliberalism is dead; Long live Neoliberalism!, pt 1. open.substack.com/pub/digressi... with a shout out to @mattzwolinski.bsky.social @vladtarko.bsky.social, @drnickcowen.bsky.social

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

So just so I have this straight. The EU has agreed to be bound by tariffs that Trump has neither legal nor constitutional authority to impose. It has agreed to buy an impossible amount of energy from the US, more than it currently imports from all sources. The EU cannot actually buy the energy. 1/2

Neon Liberalism #36: In recent years, a number of prominent right-wingers have moved left dramatically. A surprising number of libertarians have abandoned their "fusionist" association with the Republican Party, and become more closely affiliated with the progressive movement. How did this happen?

"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer." —Zadie Smith

Just published! A collection of short reflections on Judith Shklar's political theory from @samuel-bagg.bsky.social, David Enoch, @shalmarr.bsky.social, and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, with an introduction from me. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live. £1000 prize. Submission deadline: 15/12/25 Details here and in the News and CfP section of our website files.taylorandfrancis.com/economy-and-...

The WSJ opinion section ran a piece arguing for bans on masking by protesters. I am fascinated by the paper’s choice of photo and text in promoting the piece. /1

Not the most humble post, but I am very happy to have reached the milestone of 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, with the help of many co-authors, most importantly @pavelkuchar.bsky.social, also Blaz Remic, Carolina Dalla Chiesa, @juliengradoz.bsky.social, Valeria Morea, and so many others.

I reviewed Quinn Slobodian's new book Hayek's Bastards. The review is forthcoming in the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, sharing a preprint here. The book gives us lots to chew on, but the Bastards from the title remains ambiguous, and that matters a lot for the argument.

I reviewed Quinn Slobodian's new book Hayek's Bastards. The review is forthcoming in the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, sharing a preprint here. The book gives us lots to chew on, but the Bastards from the title remains ambiguous, and that matters a lot for the argument.