Welcome to the HES 2020 Virtual Conference
June 17-21, 2020
A Message from Marcel Boumans, History of Economics Society President:

Dear HES Conference participant,
We would very much appreciate if you could complete this google form providing information on your location, your career stage, and your gender. We hope this information will prove useful for the planning of future virtual events. Thank you.
Participant Survey
All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC 0)
Use this link to convert UTC to local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc
Webinar Sessions
Webinars will be recorded and posted with asynchronous videos on our YouTube channel after the virtual conference concludes.
18:00h (UTC 0)
HES Executive Committee Meeting
Not open to the public
13:30 – 15:30h (UTC 0)
Session 1A: Empirical Economics
- Marius Kuster, When the diagnosis spoils the fun: the weekly reports by the Berlin Institute for Business Cycle Research (1928-1930)
- Lúcia Regina Centurião, General Equilibrium Theory and the search of its empirical endorsement: Henry Ludwell Moore
- Maria Bach, Enriching the concept of poverty through travel: Romesh Chandra Dutt’s travels to Europe in the late 19th century
- Nicolas Vallois, The Luftmentsh as an economic metaphor for Jewish poverty: a rhetorical analysis
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84962222038?pwd=YnptL1poQW9qNlljcjgxM3YxSnNTZz09
16:00-17:30h (UTC 0)
Session 1B: Feminist Economics
- Jessica M. Rodríguez Colón, Unveiling the Forgotten Voices of Female Thinkers: Rethinking Economics
- Laura Valladão de Mattos, J.S. Mill and the Nature of Women: An Ethological Analysis of his Engagement with the ‘Women’s Cause’
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83527781318?pwd=Q01pSGd3VFdhK25ILzE1dUNaL0NQQT09
14:00 – 15:30h (UTC 0)
Session 2A: Harmony
- Kirsten Madden & Joseph Persky, Taking Villages from Discord to Harmony: Robert Owen’s Logic of Cooperation and the Transitional Dilemma
- Joseph Persky & Kirsten Madden, The Cooperative Economy of Christian Socialism
- Andrew Lynn, Ethics, Economics, and the Specter of Social Naturalism: Mapping the Persisting Influence of the Harmony Doctrine School
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81481278869?pwd=WWNxY0phNlNoQmJ5RUlEb2JrdmFYdz09
16:00-17:30h (UTC 0)
Session 2B: Marxist Themes
- Isabella Weber, The (Im-)Possibility of Rational Socialism: Mises and the Socialist Calculation Debate in China
- Sina Badiei, A Critique of the Marxian and neo-Ricardian Nonnormative Models of Exploitation-Based Capitalist Accumulation
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86365062272?pwd=OVpUdTNIMDh0eDdic3Y1Zk01MmQ1UT09
14:00 – 15:30h (UTC 0)
Session 3A: The Scope of Economics
- Elizaveta Burina, Natural science analogies in economic modelling: Vladimir Bazarov’s restoration process model
- Spencer Banzhaf, A History of Pricing Pollution
- Ecem Okan, Smith on the history of Europe: the limited extent of Hume’s influence
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89295592071?pwd=TjNia3Y2Tk41MEpZOVBZSzB5VUpKQT09
17:00-18:30h (UTC 0)
Session 3B: HES Business Meeting
Open to all HES Members
Reports by:
- Marcel Boumans, President
- Spencer Bahnzaf, Treasurer
- Marianne Johnson, Secretary: Business Meeting Minutes June 2019 Business Meeting Secretary’s Report June 2020
- Humberto Barreto, SHOE List Moderator
- Pedro Duarte and Jimena Hurtado, JHET Editors: JHET Report June 2020
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87987270146?pwd=K2x6LzQxaVdEY21UMlV4dHQ0ckszUT09
Saturday, June 20
14:00 – 15:30h (UTC 0)
Session 4A: New Perspectives on the History of Women and Economics
- John Singleton
- Marianne Johnson, Elinor Ostrom, Trajectories, and Public Choice
- Rebeca Gomez-Betancourt & Camila Orozco Espinel, Feminist Economics: genesis and transformation of a sub-field of economics
Session opens for participant log in 5 minutes prior to start time
Web link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82198240800?pwd=VVZTSVV5eXNIZzNuRVFnb2x1QlM0dz09
Asynchronous Video Presentations
Video blog posts will open Wednesday, June 17 through Saturday, June 20 for comments and discussion.
Young Scholars Initiative Online Workshop post-HES 2020, June 23-25
YSI Workshop Program
For more information, use this link to the YSI event page