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

Geert Reuten's (1946-2025) positive review of the new translation of Capital I

Together with Tatiana Llaguno, I've returned to Hegel after a long time - connecting his thinking to the philosophy of work :) Available in open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Philippe van Basshuysen on #performativity revival in the philosophy of science compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The HISRECO conference was a blast! Some new exciting people, old friends, thoughtful conversations, and still another reason for me to be fascinated with this field

Melissa Vergara-Fernández (Groningen) on the history of Jensen and Meckling’s theory of the firm #hisreco2025

Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (Nancy) @mdtremblay.bsky.social on the history of Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism #hisreco2025

Matheus Assaf (São Paulo) on the history of mathematical economics at Stanford #hisreco2025

Erik Bengtsson (Lund) on Swedish economists and their policy influence #hisreco2025

Francesco Sergi (Paris) giving a talk on the history of behavioral macroeconomics #hisreco2025

Mariia Romanova (Vienna) on the accounting reform in Russia #hisreco2025

Paolo Bozzi (Regensburg) on the role of ideas in tax policy #hisreco2025

Murat Bakeev (Hannover) starts off with the talk on the history of model transfer in Santa Fe economics program #hisreco2025

HISRECO-2025 starts tomorrow at the department of Economics and Business Economics, Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University Thrilled to welcome many wonderful colleagues to Nijmegen! (will try to post sth here with h/t #HISRECO2025) hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

The Inventory of the Library of Michel Foucault and Daniel Defert is now available online, as a database heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/ffl_...

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...

a lot of interesting stuff for historians to explore here

Main thing I took from Best of econtwitter today is that the whole of US economics still seems to be on twitter. Which is a shame

You can now follow the podcast on Bluesky: @ceterisnparibus.bsky.social

… and one Nobelist more in this book now

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

Why Alex Rosenberg can't get any better... and why I need to read him anyway direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...

Freely available, classic and new papers on institutionalism, by Nobel prize winners, but also many bright minds working right now, including my Radboud colleague Robbert Maseland! link.springer.com/referencewor...

This

#observingeconomics @paulgp.com's paper on Credibility Revolution arxiv.org/abs/2405.20604

a section on Jensen here #historyoffinance www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Cool conference on post-structuralist approaches to the economic deconstruction.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

(I vote for Bowles, but he is unlikely to win) The wisdom of the Nobel committee would be to combine the winners approaching the same topic from different perspectives

"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."

My office bookshelves

absolutely fascinating - Pamela McCorduck interviews Herbert Simon in 1974, history of #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkO...

Edoardo Peruzzi on the history of 'competition' #historyofmicro papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One of the founders of the history of capitalism, seems to be foundational www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

My pedagogy piece (ending with Kafka btw) is officially out, we’ve just had a lively discussion of the book and the project in Bayreuth www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Bravo, @dgindis.bsky.social and Cecilia Lanata-Briones! warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

His previous book on Rimbaud was fine

Venice was fantastic, even too intensive at times. New people, incredibly smart and insightful, a vibrant, ironic, beautiful collective intelligence. Off to the next conference (and almost final for this year) -- INEM meeting at Bayreuth. www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de/en/events/Wo...

Bravo! (I learned a lot from Dorfman's history of linear optimization when writing on Kantorovich)

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

I am a fox dreaming of a hedgehog

And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models' #ENPOSS2025

UK trip was fantastic — thanks to colleagues and friends who hosted me and shared so many meaningful conversations. Next stop: Venice for the ENPOSS Conference at Ca’ Foscari (Sept 10–12). I’ll be giving a talk on some methodological disagreements in market design. enposs.eu