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

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...

And another great news lately, my first article from my PhD has now been published in the Journal of Economic Methodology! Still quite a heavy bit, but if you're interested in the interplay between deontological obligations and rational choice theories you can check it out!

Fresh issue of Œconomia online! In Varia: feminist approaches in history of economics, Medieval Thought & Schumpeter. In Book Reviews: Phelps’s memoirs, Slobodian/Plehwe on Market Civilizations, French and European macro modeling, etc Full content here 👉 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

Finance & Society is the gift that keeps on giving! Just as we've gotten home from our fabulous conference in Copenhagen – huge thanks again to all of you and the organizers! – we're delighted to announce the publication of issue 11(2)! 🎁🎉 173 pages packed with the good stuff – do check it out!

Off to Bayreuth for the Biennial INEM Conference! Presenting my latest working paper on carbon tax designs and individual responsibility. And with a great book for the 8 hours of train !

A new academic year begins for Oeconomia (journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/) with a renewed team of editors for the book review section. Welcome to the new editors - I look forward to working with them! If you’d like to submit a book review or a proposal, feel free to contact me.

The special section on Central Bank Scientization in @finandsoc.bsky.social is now official out in Volume 11, Issue 2. Read all the papers here ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Many thanks to @aminsamman.bsky.social and Nathan Coombs for their support in the editorial process.

Working Paper: The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics by @juliengradoz.bsky.social @ssrn.bsky.social #econhist hope.econ.duke.edu/publications...

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

WP: Why Bloomington is not in Virginia: Contrasting the Social Ontologies of the Ostroms and Buchanan, by Massimo Cervesato mse.univ-paris1.fr/pub/mse/CES2...

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

@lheure-pauseco.bsky.social Du muscle aux banques centrales : 2 nouveaux épisodes avec Guillaume Vallet. Même fil rouge ➝ la masculinité hégémonique et ses effets sur le pouvoir. ⌨️ Blog: l-heure-d-unepauseconomique.fr/2025/08/27/q... 🎧 À écouter ici : l-heure-d-unepauseconomique.fr/episodes-de-...

Entendez-vous l'Eco, présenté par Aliette Hovine, change de format. L'émission devient hebdo avec 1 partie consacrée à l'actualité et l'autre plus centrée sur l'éclairage que nous apporte l'histoire de l'éco Pour la rentrée, nous avons essayé, nous avons essayé... www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

In this cool new JEM paper, Yam Mayaan rigorously documents something that several of us have been teaching for years, aka that Arrow's general equilibrium theory is meant as a normative ideal - a research tool to investigate how markets do not self-regulate: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(link to JEM issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjec20/3...) 2. An EJHET special issue edited by Simon Hupfel, which surveys various episodes on how economic ideas about TRADE traveled through policy circles between the 18th and early 20th century www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/c...

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

Je tente un petit appel à la collectivité à partir de mon travail actuel. Je bosse en ce moment sur Sauvy, et je me cogne sans arrêt à cette vieille notion : le malthusianisme économique (un concept que je ne trouve utilisé qu'en français à cette époque, sauf si je me trompe).

J'ai l'immense plaisir d'annoncer que je rejoins l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 comme maître de conférences à la rentrée ! Hâte de débuter cette nouvelle étape et de découvrir un nouvel environnement académique. Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui m’ont soutenu dans ce parcours 🎉

1/ I’ve decided to keep wandering through the question of belief — more precisely, the beliefs of historical actors as we study them in intellectual history (for me, the history of the social sciences). Partly because it brings me joy, partly because it forces me to clarify things in my own head.

Very interesting thread, no less because I disagree with it

1/ In a previous thread, I questioned the use of verbs like believe or think in the history of ideas. I argued that most of the time, what we're really trying to understand is what historical actors said or claimed, not what they believed deep down.

1/ Grateful to @willpooley.bsky.social for sending me his article “Who Believes in Belief?”—a sharp look at how slippery the word belief is, this time in the history of religious & magical practices. #History #philhist @rehpere.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

REHPER starter pack: the place to be for anyone into the epistemology and history of economic thought. Engaged scholars, sharp papers, archive diggers — and just the right amount of reflexivity.

WP: Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks, by Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi & Juan Acosta ideas.repec.org/p/hal/wpaper...

« Il semble que "la doctrine Friedman" ait rapidement pris vie indépendamment des idées que Friedman avait vraiment sur la responsabilité sociale des entreprises » Ma traduction 👉 annotationsbis.blogspot.com/2025/06/doct...

On my pile. Zappia has written beautiful research on theoretical models of uncertainty in the 1940s to 1970s that I teach from (Savage, Ellsberg, Allais, De Finetti, Shackle : see here scholar.google.com/citations?us...) Can't wait to see the book

Ça me fait penser qu’un petit projet sur les dessins de presse et les affiches de propagande économiques, ce serait quand même super intéressant. Makes me think a small project on economic press cartoons and propaganda posters would actually be super interesting.

The more I do history of ideas, the more sensitive I become to how often we write that "X believed" or "X thought" something. But as historians, we rarely go beyond what someone said—not what they believed.

🪗 I just published a quick Quarto website as wrap-up of my first (short) participation to the @30daychartchall.bsky.social ! 🐌 I may slowly produce the huge bunch of missing charts ➡️ Link: gnoblet.github.io/30DayChartChallenge #quarto #dataviz #rstats #matplotlib #ggplot2 #30daychartchallenge

Beyond Profit Maximization: How Economists Studied Corporate Social Responsibility in the 1950s-1970s Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 2 Comments welcome! #econsky beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/b...

The issue also contains a great paper by @cleocz.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com on Barbara Bergmann :)

EJHET current issue contains reviews of books on Greek economic thought, slavery and colonialism, British coop. Read Zouboulakis, Mueller, Dos Santos Ferreira and @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social take on Psalidopoulos, Pisanelli, Maurice Allais and Madden & Persky www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

shs.cairn.info/revue-l-econ... Notre article sur la fronde des experts économiques du Front Populaire contre les 40h est disponible sur @cairninfo.bsky.social. Il s'appuie sur un travail (en open access) publié dans Modern Intellectual History (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)

What is the social responsibility of business: from Friedman’s ideas to “the Friedman doctrine” Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 1 beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/w... Comments welcome! #econsky

We are pleased to invite you to the MAPS Symposium, taking place on June 4 and 5, 2025, at Koniglicher Pferdestall. Attendance is free and open to all. We have a great lineup! Join us for two days of engaging discussions and critical reflections.

This is an interesting paper on how economists have become key players in central banks over the past decades, showing how economic expertise grew in influence and the roles economists play inside central banks (e.g. collecting data, building models).

A special issue on HET now out in the Review of Development & Change! 🤩 journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/... Articles on competition, environmental economics, agrarian question & structural change, village studies & Indian economics, Marx's methodological holism, Marx's framework, women in HET.

Today at 14:00 (Helsinki time)! 📢 Argumenta Distinguished Lecture: The Measure of Progress 🎙️ Diane Coyle (@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free & open to all 🔗 Join via Zoom: reses-argumenta.fi?p=1201 #econsky #philsci

At the 2025 ESHET conference, I presented a paper co-authored with Raphaël Fèvre: “From Data to Doctrine: Alfred Sauvy’s Politics of Economic Memory.” We examine how Sauvy’s economic histories functioned as retrospective justifications of his role under the Popular Front and Vichy. 👇

"W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal" by Guy Numa and Sammy Zahran (forth. in the JEL) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🇬🇧 Quick poll: in your field, what is the usual registration fee (or a price range) for conferences? Thanks in advance! 🇫🇷 Petit sondage : quel est, dans votre discipline, le tarif habituel (ou une fourchette) des frais d'inscription aux colloques/conférences ? Merci pour vos réponses !

What do economists do in central banks? How did they come to play such a central role? We're excited to share the first draft of a Cambridge University Press Elements book project on how economists became key figures in central banking over the twentieth century. ▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

Excellent Blanqui lecture by Glory Liu @ #eshet2025

Great #ESHET session on the history of energy economics — a perfect mix of heated historiographical debates, engaged research, and fresh perspectives. Everything I love! @lucienoyer.bsky.social ‪@kaiprnha.bsky.social‬

The special section concludes with a response by Martin Marcussen, also reflecting on his earlier work (2006–2009) on central bank scientization. A great way to close the loop 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online! 👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions 🔹 Policymaking 🔹 Contributory 🔹 Legitimizing

Who said when?

The other papers are already online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The third paper of the special section on the "Scientization of Central Banks" is now online in @finandsoc.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/fas.... Aykiz dogan & Frédéric Lebaron propose a sociological approach to scientisation, by building and analysing a prosopographic database of central bankers