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The Age of Reform (1) Reading Hofdstadter's classic from Bryan to FDR

This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade.

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

I'll be talking on 'The Politics of Microeconomics' at ISEC this Monday.

Based on my EPW article: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

From heuristics and biases to agency - Mind & Society Mind & Society - Behavioural economics in the heuristics-and-biases tradition of Kahneman and Tversky is best known for explaining how people actually make decisions. However, less attention...

Happy that my article w Ivan Mitrouchev "From heuristics and biases to agency” is out in Mind & Society. We trace how behavioral economics’ normative benchmarks evolved and argue for more agency-centered, co-created standards in behavioral public policy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...

A review of Natasha Piano's book (Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science), by Gianluca Damiani
doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Season 4 Episode 3 - Amartya Sen Podcast Episode · Economics In Ten · 12/04/2021 · 1h 29m

On this day in 1933, Amartya Sen was born. The Nobel Prize winning economist wrote the classic 'Development as Freedom' & helped create the Human Development Index. Have a listen to our podcast to discover why his ideas are still so influential today. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/s...

New book: Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia, by Marko Grdešić & Mislav Žitko
amzn.to/3JoWy1M

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.

My article 'Keynes and Ricardo on consumption' now published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics! 😇

academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...

@shoet.bsky.social @rethinkecon.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Papers not selected for the grant will still be considered for presentation in the conference parallel sessions.

The Young Scholars Program will be jointly sponsored by the local organisers, HES,
ESHET and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Submit an abstract and other relevant info by 22 Dec via the ‘Paper Submission’ portal on the conference website: www.eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

Email a CV and a paper no longer than 9000 words to eshet-secretary@eshet.eu by Jan 15, 2026. Acceptance will be notified by Feb 1, 2026.

All grantees will also benefit from free registration, event tickets, and one-year HES and ESHET memberships.

Individuals who meet the criteria set out above and wish to be considered for a Young Scholar award must complete the following two-step process:

The selected papers will be distributed into thematic sessions throughout the program. Scholars travelling from Europe will receive up to €700 to cover their travel and accommodation expenses, whereas scholars travelling from overseas, up to €1,100.

Applicants for a Young Scholar award are required to submit a full paper for the committee’s consideration, and up to fifteen submissions will be selected for an award. Papers co-authored by PhD supervisors or other senior scholars are not eligible.

The organizing committee of the 2026 joint ESHET/HES conference invites early-career scholars—persons currently enrolled in a PhD program, or who have been awarded a PhD after 2022—to apply for support from the Young Scholars Program.

Call for Applications – Young Scholars Program
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, Nice, France
26-29 May 2026

#eshethes2026 Is forthcoming!

Chapter: The Abolition of the Division of Labor in the Work of Karl Marx, by Jonathan Askonas
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Article: On capabilities and agency in the work of Amartya Sen and Elinor and Vincent Ostrom: a comparative assessment, by Paul Lewis & Paul Dragos Aligica
doi.org/10.1093/cje/...

🔥 Our team members Murat Bakeev and Edoardo Peruzzi are busy this month w presenting their ideas at HISRECO & Pittsburg's center for philosophy of science (links👇). Meanwhile, I am looking forward to my visit to the Uni Kansas for a talk at the Conference From Biology to Economics and Back Again!

Article: The Knightian entrepreneur as consensus-builder, by Dillon Tauzin
doi.org/10.1080/1350...

A review of Matthew Watson's book (False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models), by Danielle Guizzo
doi.org/10.1215/0018...

A new issue of Metodo is available now (open access). This is a special issue on 'Philosophy and/of economics'
metodo-rivista.eu/pub-266289

#Marx
#valuetheory
#crisistheory
#Smith
#Ricardo
#Physiocrats
#Napoleoni
#Colletti
#economicpolicy
#labour

Cyril Hédoin (@cyrilhedoin) On the relevance of the concept of polycentricity for 21st century liberalism

This is nicely done

substack.com/@cyrilhedoin...

Sepia photograph of Julia Wedgwood. A young white woman with dark hair sitting in profile wearing a buttoned dress with lace collage and a ribbon choker with cameo pendant

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org

A new issue of the Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought is available now
revistas.ucm.es/index.php/IJ...

🔥 Our workshop on computational methods in history and philosophy of economics just started! Two days of great talks and interesting discussions ahead!

WP: From Production to the Firm: A Brief History of the Theory of Production and the Precursors to the Theory of the Firm Up to 1970, by Paul Walker
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....