Check out the latest episode with Dr. Saarang Narayan all about #Swadeshi. Listen here: ceterisneverparibus.net/an-interview... #historyofeconomics #historyofindianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social

Highly recommended experience for young historian of econ thought!

Article: This Working Day: Marx and the conceptualization of capitalist wage labour, by George Lafferty doi.org/10.1093/cje/...

A review of the book edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant (A History of Economic Thought in France), by Andrés Alvarez & Jimena Hurtado doi.org/10.1017/S105...

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-...

[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered? Thanks

Article: Separating the wheat from the chaff: a textual history of turgot’s letters on the grain trade, by Richard van den Berg doi.org/10.1080/0967...

WP: One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought, by Thomas Delcey, Aurélien Goutsmedt & Alexandre Truc ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx...

ASSA 2026, Philadelphia. A great moment for our community with well 5 HES sessions, one co-organized with the Association for Evolutionary Economics. (In the picture, Marc Flandreau- Who investigated the possible influence of 19th century actuarial knowledge on Keynes)

Deadline extended, January 16

Back at the @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social after a long time for the last talk in 2025. Very exciting as it brings back a lot of memories. In the paper, we use network analysis to study whether model transfer might play a role in waking up sleeping beauty papers in science.

Applications are invited for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at our Centre in Paris, starting on 1 Sept 2026. The post is in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. Application deadline 19 Feb 2026. Click below for further particulars & how to apply.

Article: Pluralism meets diversity in the philosophy of economics, by Sheila Dow doi.org/10.1080/1350...

New book: A History of Spanish Economic Thought: From Scholasticism to Keynesianism, by Jesús Astigarraga & Juan Zabalza amzn.to/4qZUXAb

A review of the book edited by Iwo Amelung & Bertram Schefold (European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance), by Minghui Hu doi.org/10.1017/S105...

Alasdair MacIntyre on Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

A new issue of HOPE is available now. This is a special issue on 'The History of Economics Unbound' read.dukeupress.edu/hope/issue/5...

My final paper in my graduate school history of economics class argued (channeling Keynes) that the mercantilists were making an early effective demand argument and they weren't always making the dumb arguments Smith suggested they were. Sort of like Keynes and Pigou! Plus ça change.

New book: Adam Smith and the East India Company, by Mark Donoghue amzn.to/3KfMush

Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026 Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026 Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan Full information at: phileco4.lakecomoschool.org phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/

Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online et.worldeconomicsassociation.org/issues/vol-1...

Maybe of interest: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

On this day in 1896 Gunnar Myrdal was born. He won the Economics Nobel Prize alongside Hayek in 1974. His wife won the Peace Prize in 1982 and so became one of only 4 couples that have both won a Nobel. Alas, we don't have a podcast on Myrdal but have a read... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_...

#EconSky Abram Bergson was 54 years old when he taught comparative economic systems at Harvard (1968). The course reading list and final exam questions have been transcribed. Bon mot of the exam: his name for a theoretical market socialist economy: Shangri-Lange www.irwincollier.com/harvard-read...

#EconSky A half-century ago William J. Baumol taught the first semester of the two semester core sequence in microeconomic theory at Princeton. View the course reading list, study questions, midterm and final exam. www.irwincollier.com/princeton-va...

Absolutely. An open access book on evidential pluralism: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

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...

Bon petit samedi soir.

Check out an interview with me talking about my book! newbooksnetwork.com/relocating-d...

👉🏻 Today 👀@miriambankovsky.bsky.social is presenting some work of her new book on the role and place of families in economic thinking and social policies at the Cercle d’épistémologie at the MSH in Paris. @rehpere.bsky.social Registrations to join are still open! rehpere.org/2025/11/25/c...

Thanks, Irwin, for your human scientific divulgation in the AI era!

#EconSky Sometimes current events offers a hook for the history of economics. NYC elected a democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, to be its mayor in 2025, & at Harvard in 1909-1910, the economics department offered a course on municipal ownership and control. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...

Article: Problématique réelle et analyse monétaire chez François Quesnay, by Edwin Le Héron Edwin classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-hist...

Interview: JHET Interviews: James P. Henderson, by Evelyn L. Forget doi.org/10.1017/S105...

Check out this short video introduction of the wonderful Center for the History of Economics at Duke University (@duke-university.bsky.social), one of the best places to do the history of economics hope.econ.duke.edu/about-us Thanks for letting me be part of it! (@shoet.bsky.social)

We are glad to remind you to apply for the joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES) Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France / 26-29 May 2026 Deadline: 22 December 2025 listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Don't forget to apply! #eshethes2026

Reminder for the ESHET elections

A friendly reminder! 👍🏻

CfP: Tenth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science hisress.org/cfp/

CfP: Michel Aglietta's thinking in the face of the challenges of the 21st century aglietta.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...

CfP: a special issue of Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy on the History of Climate Economics journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

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).

JHET Online Writing Workshop-December 9 Session 6: Making Presentations is scheduled for December 9 (Tuesday), 2025, from 10AM to 11AM EDT time (UTC-4; New York time). If you are interested in, please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline for applying is Dec 4, 2025

CJE special issue in memory of Paul Lewis Paul Lewis, Stephen Pratten, Jochen Runde, Ontological theorising and the history of economic thought: an introduction, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2025;, beaf054,

#EEAfiles Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...

📣 Call for Papers - Philosophy and Economics Conference on the theme of Paradoxes and Contradictions! All proposals at the intersection of economics & philosophy will be considered. Abstract deadline 31 December 👉https://philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org

Article: “A Valuable Man” and “One of the Wisest and Best of Mankind”: Jeremy Bentham, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and Systematic Colonization, by Jane Lydon doi.org/10.1017/S147...

New book: Adam Smith’s Incomplete System, by Sergio Cremaschi amzn.to/4oJrqte