SHoET
banner
shoet.bsky.social
SHoET
@shoet.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought) and HES (History of Economics Society). Posts by Valentina Erasmo
Reposted by SHoET
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
Reposted by SHoET
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
en.wikipedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by SHoET
#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
Reposted by SHoET
#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
Reposted by SHoET
New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought:
doi.org/10.1017/S105...
Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ...
Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ...
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by SHoET
Bon petit samedi soir.
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by SHoET
Check out an interview with me talking about my book!
newbooksnetwork.com/relocating-d...
Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by SHoET
👉🏻 Today 👀@miriambankovsky.bsky.social is presenting some work of her new book on the role and place of families in economic thinking and social policies at the Cercle d’épistémologie at the MSH in Paris.
@rehpere.bsky.social

Registrations to join are still open!
rehpere.org/2025/11/25/c...
Rehpere
rehpere.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Thanks, Irwin, for your human scientific divulgation in the AI era!
I am the curator of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror and I approve this message! www.irwincollier.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Reposted by SHoET
#EconSky Sometimes current events offers a hook for the history of economics. NYC elected a democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, to be its mayor in 2025, & at Harvard in 1909-1910, the economics department offered a course on municipal ownership and control. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by SHoET
Article: Problématique réelle et analyse monétaire chez François Quesnay, by Edwin Le Héron Edwin
classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-hist...
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by SHoET
Interview: JHET Interviews: James P. Henderson, by Evelyn L. Forget
doi.org/10.1017/S105...
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by SHoET
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)
About the HOPE Center
hope.econ.duke.edu
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A...
listserv.yorku.ca
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Don't forget to apply! #eshethes2026
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
29th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
www.eshet-conference.net
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reminder for the ESHET elections
In accordance with the ESHET Constitution, all members of ESHET are invited to participate in the election of the President and of five members of the Executive Committee of ESHET for the period 2026-2028.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A friendly reminder! 👍🏻
📣 Call for Papers - Philosophy and Economics Conference on the theme of Paradoxes and Contradictions! All proposals at the intersection of economics & philosophy will be considered. Abstract deadline 31 December 👉https://philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org
8ème colloque international de philosophie économique - Sciencesconf.org
The 8th International Conference in Philosophy and Economics will be held in Nancy at the University of Lorraine on 21-22 May 2026 on the theme of
philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by SHoET
CfP: Tenth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science
hisress.org/cfp/
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reposted by SHoET
CfP: Michel Aglietta's thinking in the face of the challenges of the 21st century
aglietta.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by SHoET
CfP: a special issue of Œconomia – History | Methodology | Philosophy on the History of Climate Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Reposted by SHoET
Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).
Economics and gardening metaphors
On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
JHET Online Writing Workshop-December 9

Session 6: Making Presentations is scheduled for December 9 (Tuesday), 2025, from 10AM to 11AM EDT time (UTC-4; New York time).

If you are interested in, please fill out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline for applying is Dec 4, 2025
6th JHET Online Writing Workshop: sixth Meeting
The sixth and final meeting of the 6th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "Making Presenta...
docs.google.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
CJE special issue in memory of Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis, Stephen Pratten, Jochen Runde, Ontological theorising and the history of economic thought: an introduction, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2025;, beaf054,
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted by SHoET
#EEAfiles
Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com

It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM