Verena Halsmayer

New Peoples & Things episode this week features Verena Halsmayer talking about her award-winning book, _Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact_, including how it relates to the economics of technological change.

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Vergewaltigung in der Ehe wurde in Deutschland erst 1997 kriminalisiert. Die vorausgegangenen Kämpfe von Feministinnen analysiert Hannah Catherine Davies in „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat“. Im Podcast spricht sie mit @hannahschmidtott.bsky.social über Wandel, Staat und Strafe.

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New book: Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia, by Marko Grdešić & Mislav Žitko
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A review of Elizabeth Popp Berman's book (Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy), by Tiago Mata
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Very happy to see my article “Join us in preparing people for tomorrow’s jobs”: Robert Reich, the “New Economy,” and mythic thinking as interventionist knowledge - doi.org/10.1017/S026... - finally out in Science in Context.

The Contested Domain by Lise Vogel edited by me, displayed on my grandmother’s kitchen table from the 1950s

She’s here!

new & online💥

cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen

″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″

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🚨Workshop Announcement🚨

THE GROUNDS OF PLANNING:
RATIONALITY, PSEUDORATIONALITY, AND CRITIQUE

Keynotes by John O'Neill and Aaron Benanav
December 4-5, 2025
Grimm-Zentrum Auditorium, Berlin

organised by the Centre for Social Critique, HU Berlin

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books aren't written and published, they grow infinitely slowly into the world, one word, page, book proposal, grey strand of hair, sleepless night and website at a time

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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The first issue of History of Social Science is available now
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Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.

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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) 🙏

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Volume 32, Issue 4 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET.
In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social
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Bücherdepot der UB Wien in Floridsdorf

Wer mit der S1 ins Marchfeld fährt, kommt an den ausgelagerten Büchern der UB Wien vorbei.

No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.

Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop: Fourth Meeting The fourth meeting of the 6th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "Writing for an Academ...

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop series is kicking off soon. You can sign up until this Sunday, the 14th of September.

Aimed at both non-native and native speakers writing about the history of economic thought and looking to improve their prose. Run by Paul Dudenhefer longtime editor at HOPE.

My review of Verena Halsmeyer's unique book-length history of the Solow growth-model is online. It is a great look at modelling in economics, the particular MIT-style of modeling, as well as a great case-study of how academic and policy prestige come about.

Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought: A Panel Conversation, featuring Branko Milanovic and David Lay Williams Tuesday November 4th 5pm GMT

🎉 Join us for a free online event.
📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT.
With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social
Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social
Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni by Jochen Schmon

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

Mit tollen Beiträgen, u.a. von @gesinekrueger.bsky.social und Michaela Oberhofer, Madlen Kobi und Adam Przywara, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und Niklaus Remund und von mir und @mrtzg.bsky.social.

Presseaussendung des Društvo/Verein Peršman zum Polizeieinsatz an der Gedenkstätte und im Museum Peršman, 27.07.2025 | ZKP Presseaussendung des Društvo/Verein Peršman zum Polizeieinsatz an der Gedenkstätte und im Museum Peršman, 27.07.2025

Ist im BMI und/oder dem Verfassungsschutz jemand übergeschnappt? Die Gedenkstätte Persmanhof wird gestürmt, weil ein dort stattfindendes antifaschistisches Bildungscamp einen sittenwidrige Umgang mit einer Gedenkstätte darstelle? Bitte was?!
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Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist.
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

The Means of Prediction An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:

"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!

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Word is spreading about our amazing Central European History Convention in Vienna July 17-19, with 55 panels, keynotes by Peter Haslinger + Tara Zahra, roundtables/ reception in honor of Pieter Judson, research lab, poster presentations, + book stalls! Share widely! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks Aurélien Goutsmedt UCLouvain, ISPOLE; ICHEC Brussels Francesco Sergi Université Paris Est Créteil, LIPHA Juan Acosta Universidad del Valle Abstract What do economists do in central banks? Why do central banks hire economists? This book investigates the evolving role of economists and economic knowledge within central banks, arguing that their current centrality is neither self-evident nor historically inevitable. While the presence and influence of economists in central banks today may seem natural, this book shows that it is the result of a complex, gradual, and uneven historical process shaped by institutional structures, disciplinary transformations, and shifting relationships between science and policy. Drawing on a rich but dispersed body of literature, the book traces how economists progressively gained authority through the establishment of statistics departments, the adoption of macroeconometric models, and the emergence of a shared cognitive infrastructure between academia and central banks. Rather than focusing on individuals or doctrines, it examines general trends and institutional shifts across a series of national case studies to show how central banks function as boundary organizations, at the intersection of policy and science

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.

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A special issue on HET now out in the Review of Development & Change! 🤩

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Articles on competition, environmental economics, agrarian question & structural change, village studies & Indian economics, Marx's methodological holism, Marx's framework, women in HET.

Grad gemerkt, dass mein Kapitel ‘Patente als Vermögenswerte. Geistiges Eigentum als Subjekt und Objekt des Markts’ erschienen ist. Too many things happening rn...

Vielen Dank an die Herausgeber N Angefeld, J Blumenfeld @cominsitu.bsky.social, T Wesche.

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New issue published! **Economic Miracles and Their Afterlives** read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact cehnewvoices@gmail.com or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...