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Official Bluesky account for ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought) and HES (History of Economics Society). Posts by Valentina Erasmo
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Article: This Working Day: Marx and the conceptualization of capitalist wage labour, by George Lafferty
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January 23, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Article: This Working Day: Marx and the conceptualization of capitalist wage labour, by George Lafferty
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doi.org/10.1093/cje/...
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A review of the book edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant (A History of Economic Thought in France), by Andrés Alvarez & Jimena Hurtado
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January 23, 2026 at 3:02 PM
A review of the book edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant (A History of Economic Thought in France), by Andrés Alvarez & Jimena Hurtado
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This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights
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William I. "Controversy" Thomas
Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short
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January 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights
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seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...
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[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
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January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
Thanks
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Article: Separating the wheat from the chaff: a textual history of turgot’s letters on the grain trade, by Richard van den Berg
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January 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Article: Separating the wheat from the chaff: a textual history of turgot’s letters on the grain trade, by Richard van den Berg
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WP: One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought, by Thomas Delcey, Aurélien Goutsmedt & Alexandre Truc
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January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
WP: One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought, by Thomas Delcey, Aurélien Goutsmedt & Alexandre Truc
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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)
(In the picture, Marc Flandreau-
Who investigated the possible influence of 19th century actuarial knowledge on Keynes)
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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)
(In the picture, Marc Flandreau-
Who investigated the possible influence of 19th century actuarial knowledge on Keynes)
Deadline extended, January 16
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
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Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France / 26-29 May 2026
Deadline: 22 December 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Deadline extended, January 16
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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.
December 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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.
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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.
THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS IN PARIS
Fellowships
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December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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.
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Article: Pluralism meets diversity in the philosophy of economics, by Sheila Dow
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December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Article: Pluralism meets diversity in the philosophy of economics, by Sheila Dow
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New book: A History of Spanish Economic Thought: From Scholasticism to Keynesianism, by Jesús Astigarraga & Juan Zabalza
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December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New book: A History of Spanish Economic Thought: From Scholasticism to Keynesianism, by Jesús Astigarraga & Juan Zabalza
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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
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December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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
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Alasdair MacIntyre on Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Alasdair MacIntyre on Adam Smith
The mercantilists were the fetish-worshipers, the Catholics of political economy who treated money as the real incarnation of value.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Alasdair MacIntyre on Adam Smith open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
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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
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...
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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.
Good discussion of Marx, colonialism, and capitalism here. Unfortunately the discussion of Smith is quite bad, and in very obvious ways.
If you find yourself suggesting that Smith thought ships full of gold drove the wealth of nations, just… stop.
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If you find yourself suggesting that Smith thought ships full of gold drove the wealth of nations, just… stop.
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Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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.
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New book: Adam Smith and the East India Company, by Mark Donoghue
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December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New book: Adam Smith and the East India Company, by Mark Donoghue
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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/
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/
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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/
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/
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Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online
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December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online
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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
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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
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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_...
Gunnar Myrdal - Wikipedia
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December 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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_...
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#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...
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
#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...
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#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...
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#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...
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Absolutely. An open access book on evidential pluralism:
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www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences | Yafeng Shan, Jon William
This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs
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December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Absolutely. An open access book on evidential pluralism:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...