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Maria Bach
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Researcher at the Walras Pareto Centre @unil.bsky.social
Book just out on the history of Indian Economics, Relocating Development Economics @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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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
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Article: Uncovering the hidden value of unpaid work: a global history of marginalized metrics, by Maylis Avaro & Johanna Gautier-Morin
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January 15, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Le saviez-vous ? Le groupe Theoretical Practice (composé de marxistes britanniques plus althussériens que les Althussériens eux-mêmes - c'est dire s'ils étaient althussériens) poussait la distinction jusqu'à éditer une revue de forme oblongue.
January 15, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.
Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture
by Ibanca Anand This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?

Thanks
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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A review of Miriam Bankovsky's book (Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History), by Virginie Gouverneur
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December 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A new issue of HOPE is available now. This is a special issue on 'The History of Economics Unbound'
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December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Check out an interview with me talking about my book!
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Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Just a reminder that the deadline for job applications at @crestumr.bsky.social is this Sunday, the 16th midnight

If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine
🚨 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)

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Please circulate! #econsky
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Will or will it not be the last revision of this article!? It’s been a long difficult process, but comments continue to be extremely useful!
Current title- a tale of two national accounts: reciprocal histories of counting in the USA and India, 1850-1880
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The 3rd annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET) will be held at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram on 11th & 12th October 2026.

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

CfP will be released Feb/Mar 2026.
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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New book: A History of Polish Economic Thought, by Marek Ratajczak
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October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Je recommande vivement la visite de l’exposition Otobong Nkanga au Musée d’art moderne de Paris : c’est beau *et* ça parle d’extractivisme minier en contexte post(colonial)
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Mariia Romanova (Vienna) on the accounting reform in Russia #hisreco2025
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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)

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17th HISRECO Conference Program
Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…
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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Article: History as Pedagogy and Weapon: The Origin of Doctrinal Histories of Economic Thought in Britain, by Ryan Walter
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October 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A forthcoming article in the American Economic Review finds that immigration boosts both innovation and wages, effects that outweigh the short-term impact of a larger labor supply.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

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October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"Låga födelsetal oroar politiker världen över. Men lösningen är inte mer traditionella könsroller, visar ekonomipristagaren Claudia Goldins forskning. Tvärtom – länder där män tar större ansvar i hemmet har också fler barn." | Ny krönika i EFN Finansmagasinet efn.se/vagen-till-s... via @efn.se
Vägen till sovrummet går genom köket
Fler barn föds där männen tar större ansvar
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October 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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This week we're very happy to have @rkhoban.bsky.social from @econ.uzh.ch visiting us! On Thursday, Roza will present her research on "Unequal Gains from Trade and the Distribution of Political Power in India". Welcome to Växjö! www.rkhoban.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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) 🙏
October 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Interview: How can one be a Lausanno-Cantab? A conversation with Pascal Bridel, by Jean-Sébastien Lenfant & Pascal Bridel
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September 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Article: Money Talks: The Rise of Willingness to Pay Without Apology, by Eli Cook
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September 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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En 1965, Maspero publiait une "introduction à l'histoire du Maghreb" signée Mohand Cherif Sahli et il s'agissait (déjà !) de décoloniser l'histoire.
June 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM