Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Adam Smith and 250 years of The Wealth of Nations Join us for a seminar to mark the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's landmark publication. Speakers include Professor Richard van den Berg and Dr Leo Steeds.

www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Special appearance of Milton Friedman’s Adam Smith tie

At @senatehouselib.bsky.social to listen to Richard van den Berg and Leo Steeds talk about Adam Smith, its ´Columbus syndrome,’ the reception of the Wealth of Nations and the cultural and political (re)appropriation of his ideas

Letter from Keynes to Beveridge

Beatrice (Potter) Webb’s diary

In the @lselibrary.bsky.social archives with the students 🔬📜 ✏️ #Beveridge #Webb @lseechist.bsky.social

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.”

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.

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

In addition to Teixeira and Bunning, you have a paper by Biddle and Holder on HC in education policy, the canonical paper by Blaug (1976) and part of schmeltzer book on the OECD too

The paper's context is a conference where the research question is whether Labour econ follows a specific trajectory in comparison with other applied fields and in relation to the micro/macro divide.

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...

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.@aurelien-goutsmedt.com and I are trying to document the transformation of labour economics. Timing, scope and nature of the transition towards the 'analytical' labour economics are key focus.

Some very familiar patterns are confirmed, some surprising one emerge too (more to come!) 📈📊📜

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...

Influencer intellectuals, a quick summary In my newfound condition as a part-time bureaucrat, I have dropped the ball on some of my academic projects. I’ve carved out a little bit of time in between grant applications, emails, and pa…

Ok, so I typed down some definitional thoughts on what makes an Influencer Intellectual so unique. I consider this my academic contribution of the year, thank you.

pardoguerra.org/2024/11/14/i...

Article: Persuasion and Possibilities: Graphical Instruments and Personal Income Distribution in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, by Pedro Teixeira
doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Y a-t-il des travaux sur la transformation du métier de conseiller bancaire ? Il y a l'exemple célèbre de Bessen sur cmt les distributeurs de billets n'ont pas supprimé d'emplois chez les guichetiers, car ils sont devenus conseillers. Mais il s'arrête en 2015... Il y a des choses nouvelles ? 🤔🤔

Portrait de Gaël Giraud, avec le titre de l’article « enquête sur les ombres d’un prodige ».

Un texte sur fond sombre : Une enquête préliminaire a été ouverte par le Tribunal pénal canonique national (TPCN) en novembre 2025, à la demande de son ordre, pour recevoir et étudier plusieurs témoignages dénonçant du harcèlement, allant possiblement jusqu’au viol. Un signalement a également été effectué auprès du procureur de la République. Contacté par La Vie, Gaël Giraud conteste l’ensemble des faits. Comment en est-on arrivé là ?

Ma collègue Flore publie dans @laviemedia.bsky.social une enquête sur Gaël Giraud : un travail documenté, écrit avec précision.

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The Margins of the Field: Rediscovering Agricultural Economists for the History of Ideas by Federico D’Onofrio This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe.
@fdonoff.bsky.social

In the wake of Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review of mental health ‘over-diagnosis’ we have published this new policy paper by Prof Lucy Delap arguing that the government’s priority should be to address the historic stigma against sick & disabled people.

historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Pour en savoir plus, voir l'excellent ouvrage de Damian Clavel publié en 2022 (disponible en pdf)
"Créer un pays, le royaume de Poyais. Gregor MacGregor, emprunts d’État et fraude financière 1820-1824"
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Carte imaginaire du royaume de Poyais : quand la carte fait le territoire
cartonumerique.blogspot.com/2025/02/cart...
Retour sur l'une des plus grandes escroqueries cartographiques du XIXe siècle

Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain* Abstract. The significance of the state’s fiscal system for military capacity, colonization, trade, and economic development is a long-studied topic. Much

New on advance access: "Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

by Karolina Hutková (@ox.ac.uk/LSE), Ernesto Dal Bó (UC, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk)

#OpenAccess

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This week, we’re celebrating the British Academy Book Prize shortlist, with reading recommendations from this year’s nominees

First up, is Bronwen Everill with three books that complement her shortlisted work AFRICONOMICS: lrb.me/b44189

@britishacademy.bsky.social

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Super nice workshop bringing together researchers from Oxford, Warwick and LSE last Monday at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social 🤓🏭

Learn a lot on the pre-modern “contractual state,” internal migration within India, the Winchester Estate and more! #OWL2025 @lseechist.bsky.social

Check out this short video introduction of the wonderful Center for the History of Economics at Duke University (@duke-university.bsky.social), one of the best places to do the history of economics hope.econ.duke.edu/about-us Thanks for letting me be part of it! (@shoet.bsky.social)

Meloni: “Inaccettabile che l’Università di Bologna neghi un corso per gli ufficiali dell’Esercito” La premier sulla polemica sollevata dal generale Masiello: “Decisione incomprensibile e sbagliata, gesto lesivo dei doveri costituzionali”. L’ateneo: “Si chied…

It was only a matter of time. The Italian government has turned against the universities as well. The pretext is the @unibo.it's refusal to establish a program for army officers. U of B is being described as "the headquarters of a political party." The truth: there is no money to pay the lecturers.

Cover image of Jeremy Bentham's Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar.

Publication Day 📖💃🎉

Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.

Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...

[Job] Postdoctoral researcher in history, Brig (CH) but flexibility and possibility of remote work

Project: Organised Business and Environmental Governance in Western Europe [1945–1995]

Deadline: January 4, 2026

Oxford Word of the Year 2025 poster featuring the term 'rage bait' with an image of a fishing hook, set against a pink and white background.

Oxford Word of the Year poster featuring the term "rage bait." The text defines it as a noun, originating from a compound of the words 'rage' and 'bait,' described as "an attractive morsel of food, on the model of the already existing clickbait." The background is soft pink with abstract design elements.

CONFIRMED: Oxford University Press has named ‘rage bait’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.

#OxfordWOTY

"Maghreb noir", un souffle panafricain Fouillé et captivant, le livre de Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik place le Maghreb et ses artistes au cœur de l’histoire du panafricanisme.

📚 Fouillé et captivant, le livre « Maghreb noir » de Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik place le Maghreb et ses artistes au cœur de l’histoire du panafricanisme.

🖋️ Pauline Guedj
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)