Huge congrats to Antoine Missemer on receiving the CNRS Bronze Medal! A well-deserved recognition for an outstanding historian of economic thought — rigorous, incredibly hardworking, and genuinely humble. Great news not just for him, but for the whole field.
www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
The home page of the website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium
Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium!
politicaleconomy.be
🔍 Meet the team
📚 Browse publications
🔬 Explore projects
📅 Stay tuned for events
The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...
Was delighted to do an extended interview with the editors at @commongoodmag.bsky.social. This covers many of the major arguments of my @princetonupress.bsky.social book, The Greatest of All Plagues. As I told my PUP editor every time I missed a deadline, it's all still relevant!
Tellement pertinent ! J’ai hâte de la lire
This book is riveting and important and you, yes you, should read it! The historical argument is brilliant in itself, and (with apologies for being a presentist philistine!) it changed the way I think about contemporary criminal law, procedure, and policing
🤔 MODEL TRANSFER challenge: This week, we have an intense writing week with the whole ERC team, trying to not only approach a new research topic (at least new for some of us) but also coming up with a first draft of a paper in a collective fashion. So far, its going well ...
A new episode of Ceteris Never Paribus features Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind
ceterisneverparibus.net
Ce livre sort en français à la fin du mars ! 🎉
Listen to the next episode all about scarcity with Carl Wennerlind and Frederik Albritton Jonsson ceterisneverparibus.net/scarcity-a-h... @mariabach.bsky.social
We need better economics education. #teachecon
Article: Women and economics in interwar Italy: the case of five Italian journals from 1918 to 1939, by Giulia Zacchia & Marcella Corsi
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
Haha you’re so right! Trust economics to add fancy words to something so simple/basic : a human
Now I agree that it’s not a good term, it equates humans (living natural thing) with capital (a dead completely invented thing). It’s like using technological terms for humans - bandwidth, processing power, etc.
But doesn’t education describe the means to produce human capital and not the end - human capital: what actually produces goods/increases productivity?
Interesting discussion but training and education describe the ingredients to produce human capital, no? (The means) and does not describe the end - human capital (what actually produces goods). LAlZe
I have question from a colleague about the history of the concept of human capital. Any advice? Literature recommendations? @shoet.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @cleocz.bsky.social @vhalsmayer.bsky.social
🎉 Yesterday was the official publication date of my book Conversations on Rational Choice, CUP. So, it really exists and you can order your copy (pic by @maltedold.bsky.social because I still dont own one).
Check out the latest episode with Dr. Saarang Narayan all about #Swadeshi. Listen here: ceterisneverparibus.net/an-interview... #historyofeconomics #historyofindianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social
Highly recommended experience for young historian of econ thought!
Tremendous conversation!
In their great podcast, I try to answer a set of challenging questions asked by Jennifer Jhun and François Allison about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and about how I would classify my work in the disciplinary landscape, among other things: hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...
🔥 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...
Article: Uncovering the hidden value of unpaid work: a global history of marginalized metrics, by Maylis Avaro & Johanna Gautier-Morin
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Couverture du 6e numéro de Theoretical Practice (Mai 1972), format oblong, écrit noir sur rouge "ISSUE 6 MAY 1972 PRICE 35p THEORETICAL PRACTICE "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. Lenin"
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.
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.
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
Thanks
A review of Miriam Bankovsky's book (Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History), by Virginie Gouverneur
doi.org/10.1215/0018...
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...
Oh la la ! Courage 💪🏽 and thank you for sharing - I feel the same way. It’s a marathon and we’re only half way through 😢