Tonight, we're discussing inequality in the history of economic and political thought at 6PM CET online in a ULC Stone Centre Webinar Discussion is centered on recent books by Branko Milanović and David Lay Williams Register here : ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.” journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Dozens of new ocean methane seeps have recently been discovered. This is not factored in current climate scenarios www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Latest by my colleague Tim Lewens. Most envious of people who manage to pack in arguments into 3000 words, especially such meaty arguments as this one #philsci #philsky

Economists often tie their discount rates to market interest rates. Why? I critically examine the four most common reasons in a short paper just out in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. You can download the preprint version here: philpapers.org/rec/KELTDA-6

🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨 We have 3 positions: 1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE 1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom) 1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique) econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Please circulate! #econsky

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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...

Dans l'Entendez-vous l'éco du jour, on discute avec @alietteh.bsky.social, Sylvie Rivot, Céline Antonin et Guillaume Vallet du prix Nobel qui vient d'être décerné à Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion et Peter Howitt sur la compréhension de la croissance et l'innovation www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Today I taught the history of mainstream and heterodox economics to UZH students, and we discuss the social meaning of prizes in science. It was an especially interesting day to do so

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) 🙏

ESHET HES 2026 Important notice: change of dates Please note that the joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society will take place from 26 to 29 May 2026 (rather than the originally announced date of 3–6 June).

The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Corruption is the most important story in the world. Jagdish Bhagwati and Anne Krueger should share the Nobel Prize.

How to model simultaneous events? If Barro wins, surely Galli does too.

My guess is that this year will be the first time one of the winners is married to a previous nobel winner

And for question 3:

Explanation for 1 and 2. Here is my nobel prediction for 2023. After this perfect shot I must stay on course. Also Dixit deserves it, everyone he worked with ended up getting it. And free trade this year would be cool.

1- Avinash Dixit 2- Avinash Dixit and Jagdish bjagwati 3- less work. Nothing to aim at afterwards. 4- bad: perpetuates the myth of the lonely Genius. Makes a lot of people who miss it unhappy. 4-good: it promotes science, who talks about real science the rest of the year? It motivates young people

I stay with Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes.

1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:

[ADVICE NEEDED] For recruitment committee members around #econsky ? EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs. How do you cope with this?

"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982) Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Nice one!

Beth Berman's interview should be read alongside the historical work by Antoinette Baujard on how economists have mostly endorsed, sometimes resisted, utilitarianism, welfarism and consequentialism as a basis for decision making papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

1/n Last week, the History of Economics community received the sad news that Malcom Rutherford has passed (see Margaret Schabas's announcement below) A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I will be writing about my research on Chicago once a week at this new Substack: Seeing like Chicago Do subscribe, for a weekly note! seeinglikechicago.substack.com

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"your papers are due for submission in 5 weeks"

New book: Uncertainty in Economics: A History, by Carlo Zappia amzn.to/3JIlTnc

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (@actesrss.bsky.social) a 50 ans. Pour l’occasion, nous publions un numéro spécial. Anniversaire oblige, ce numéro double comporte aussi des surprises. Un 🧵: shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

1/n Latest on history of credit feuds in Econ: Herrade Igersheim ties many existing account of well-known longstanding priority dispute between Duncan Black & Ken Arrow over the median voter theorem with a layer of new archives [open access] link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I feel I've just peaked in terms of "slide prep view." I can retire now

" 'Le ministre des Impôts prélève aussi des idées, bien plus que des impôts.' Deux prix de livres d’économie sous le 'haut patronage du ministère de l’Économie et des Finances'" par Jean-Michel Chahsiche shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...

How to Become an International Intellectual? The Case of Thomas Piketty and “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Constantin Brissaud and Jean-Michel Chahsiche scispace.com/pdf/how-to-b...

Seminar room upgrade

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: With the attempted firing of Lisa Cook by Donald Trump, the first Black woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, I think its important to examine the @federalreserve.gov's history of Racial Segregation. This is a long one www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

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.

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

C'est raccord avec notre entretien du jour ;) www.alternatives-economiques.fr/clemence-car...

Les petits samedis matins même pas blêmes aux archives nationales

1/5 En fait, c'est un peu plus compliqué que ça : historiquement, les scénarios du Groupe 3 ont d'abord été développés pour le Groupe 1, qui avait besoin de projection des émissions de GES. Aujourd'hui, Groupes 1 et 3 collaborent étroitement, notamment sur la définition de la neutralité carbone.

Le groupe III du GIEC a un "biais technophile", donnant la priorité aux solutions technologiques et à l’innovation, au détriment d’autres options, comme la sobriété. C'est ce que démontre Jean-Baptiste Fressoz dans une étude historique passionnante ⤵️ www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

6) Discuss the economic and other causes of the world-wide growth of new nationalistic restrictions on international trade, in the interval between the last war and the present war. Wow, how modern is that?

Harvard departmental exam in economics, 1942 1/2 General essay questions: 1. Economic imperialism 2. The pre-requisites of lasting peace .... 6. The relation of economics to sociology and political science ... 20. Planned economies and human liberties www.irwincollier.com/harvard-unde...

Très utile, merci Mix

Two new special issues with historical perspectives on how economists shape public policies: 1. A JEM special issue edited by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social and Esther Sent with an intro here www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10..... More on 20th century and showcasing a variety of influence paths

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...