Ivan Boldyrev
@ivanboldyrev.bsky.social
philosopher, historian of ideas,
asst prof at Radboud University,
co-editor, Hegel Bulletin @universitypress.cambridge.org
history and philosophy of (recent) economics
performativity
Hegel and German intellectual history
https://ivanboldyrev.net/
asst prof at Radboud University,
co-editor, Hegel Bulletin @universitypress.cambridge.org
history and philosophy of (recent) economics
performativity
Hegel and German intellectual history
https://ivanboldyrev.net/
... and on Friday the 20th there will be a follow-up in Strasbourg, with a different talk
2 p.m., University of Strasbourg, Salle du Conseil
Venez nombreux! www.beta-economics.fr/en/evenement...
2 p.m., University of Strasbourg, Salle du Conseil
Venez nombreux! www.beta-economics.fr/en/evenement...
February 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
... and on Friday the 20th there will be a follow-up in Strasbourg, with a different talk
2 p.m., University of Strasbourg, Salle du Conseil
Venez nombreux! www.beta-economics.fr/en/evenement...
2 p.m., University of Strasbourg, Salle du Conseil
Venez nombreux! www.beta-economics.fr/en/evenement...
Next week, I will be giving a talk on the history of market design in Paris
Venez nombreux!
Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...
rehpere.org
Venez nombreux!
Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...
rehpere.org
zoom CEE | Framaforms.org
framaforms.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Next week, I will be giving a talk on the history of market design in Paris
Venez nombreux!
Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...
rehpere.org
Venez nombreux!
Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...
rehpere.org
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The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...
Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory
Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory
edinburghuniversitypress.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Lasse Thomassen, Derrida, Deconstruction and Political Theory - @edinburghup.bsky.social, January 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-derrida...
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This is a must-read, but I can't help thinking that more emphasis needs to be placed on the resonance between the pursuit of scientific scale for AI and the underlying and explicit pursuit of business scale at all costs for platforms and investors
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale
AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
This is a must-read, but I can't help thinking that more emphasis needs to be placed on the resonance between the pursuit of scientific scale for AI and the underlying and explicit pursuit of business scale at all costs for platforms and investors
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It is a pleasure to work with Ivan and Bob! still intrigued about many threads we were discussing
Glad to share a new paper with Ivan Boldyrev and Bob Sugden, written for the 75th anniversary of the famous 1952 Paris conference on risk.
We reconstruct the rich discussions at the meeting and address the “sleeping beauty puzzle” linked to ideas presented there by Allais and Arrow.
bit.ly/4rkZqNn
We reconstruct the rich discussions at the meeting and address the “sleeping beauty puzzle” linked to ideas presented there by Allais and Arrow.
bit.ly/4rkZqNn
January 31, 2026 at 11:52 AM
It is a pleasure to work with Ivan and Bob! still intrigued about many threads we were discussing
Very happy and proud to share my survey on the history and philosophy of market design, I hope I'll be able to do more in the upcoming year, stay tuned, and meanwhile -- read, criticize, and use it for good cause
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
History and Philosophy of Market Design: Mathematical Politics of Resource Allocation
The standard economic problem of optimally allocating scarce resources has, over recent decades, evolved into a set of practical and consequential policy interventions on the part of economists. Key f...
link.springer.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Very happy and proud to share my survey on the history and philosophy of market design, I hope I'll be able to do more in the upcoming year, stay tuned, and meanwhile -- read, criticize, and use it for good cause
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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WP: Sources of Evidence for Evidence-based Policymaking: Journals, Articles and Scholarly Structures in the Economic Report of the President 2010-2025, by Richard V. Burkhauser & Ji Ma
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
WP: Sources of Evidence for Evidence-based Policymaking: Journals, Articles and Scholarly Structures in the Economic Report of the President 2010-2025, by Richard V. Burkhauser & Ji Ma
New issue of Serendipities is out!
tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...
tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...
Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences
tidsskrift.dk
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
New issue of Serendipities is out!
tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...
tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...
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oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...
Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.
Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.
January 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...
Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.
Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.
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🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Conversations on Rational Choice
Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice
www.cambridge.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy
This commentary essay makes the case for a different way of conceptualizing the role of ideas in political economy by arguing for the need to endogenize the limits of ideas—recognizing the key role...
www.tandfonline.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social
Markowitz's 1987 book with an inscription for Arrow www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/mean...
January 15, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Markowitz's 1987 book with an inscription for Arrow www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/mean...
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Great special issue co-edited by two superb thinkers, amazing stuff there
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Great special issue co-edited by two superb thinkers, amazing stuff there
Okay, this is really needed (following the idea of @ccantore.bsky.social ): name your favourite microeconomic theory papers (at least 25 years old). #historyofmicro #econsky
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Okay, this is really needed (following the idea of @ccantore.bsky.social ): name your favourite microeconomic theory papers (at least 25 years old). #historyofmicro #econsky
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For the JHI Blog's Forum on political economy, Véronique Mickisch critiques the continued association of "Marxism in practice” with the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union and raises the need to recover the work of Marxist thinkers violently suppressed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
The First Five-Year Plan, Stalinism, and the Fate of Marxist Political Economy in the USSR
Véronique Mickisch
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
January 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
For the JHI Blog's Forum on political economy, Véronique Mickisch critiques the continued association of "Marxism in practice” with the First Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union and raises the need to recover the work of Marxist thinkers violently suppressed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
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New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
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Anarchist Advent, part 11: reasons to be an anarchist
NEED I SAY MORE (taken from Boston Food not Bombs on Instagram, but really fitting)
NEED I SAY MORE (taken from Boston Food not Bombs on Instagram, but really fitting)
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Anarchist Advent, part 11: reasons to be an anarchist
NEED I SAY MORE (taken from Boston Food not Bombs on Instagram, but really fitting)
NEED I SAY MORE (taken from Boston Food not Bombs on Instagram, but really fitting)
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Economics and economic sociology are two fields divided by their mutual fascination with the same subject matter.
#econsky #sociology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/mich...
#econsky #sociology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/mich...
Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies, in J. of Cultural Economy
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Economics and economic sociology are two fields divided by their mutual fascination with the same subject matter.
#econsky #sociology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/mich...
#econsky #sociology
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/mich...
It's a pleasure and honor to be featured in the Dutch Economenparade-2025!
esb.nu/economenpara...
esb.nu/economenpara...
Economenparade 2025 - ESB
Waar werken economen anno 2025 aan, en hoe draagt dat bij aan de maatschappij? In deze Economenparade verkennen we de prestaties van de nieuwe generatie onderzoekers, lichten we vijf maatschappelijk r...
esb.nu
December 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's a pleasure and honor to be featured in the Dutch Economenparade-2025!
esb.nu/economenpara...
esb.nu/economenpara...
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The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
Front Page | Center for the History of Political Economy
hope.econ.duke.edu
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!