Welcome to the 48th Annual Meeting of the

History of Economics Society

The Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society is one of the most important international gatherings of historians of economics. The conference provides an opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues, to learn about new research in the field, and to talk with journal and book editors and bloggers.

Virtual Sessions

All virtual sessions will be recorded and posted with the asynchronous videos on our YouTube channel after the conference concludes. Rooms will open 5 minutes prior to the session start time.

2021 Virtual Conference Program with Abstracts

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14:00 – 15:30h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte

• Lúcia Regina Centurião – Teaching general equilibrium theory in the early 20th century: An analysis of treatises
• Truc Alexandre – The disciplinary mobility of core behavioral economists
• Ibanca Anand – ‘Secondhand’ dealing in economic ideas: A study on The Foundation for Economic Education, 1946-1960

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Chair: Rogério Arthmar

• Rogério Arthmar – Fisher, Knight and the making of The Theory of Interest
• Maria Cristina Marcuzzo – On changes and differences: Joan Robinson vs Sraffa
• Rafaël Lazega – Frank Knight’s Common Sense

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16:30 – 18:00h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Nicola Giocoli

• Malte Dold and Mario J. Rizzo – Did Carl Menger have a welfare economics?
• Theresa Steffestun – The inner constitution of society – Friedrich Wieser in dialogue with Mach, Freud and Le Bon
• Per L. Bylund – How does entrepreneurship and credit relate? The different views of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s students Joseph A. Schumpeter and Ludwig von Mises
• Erwin Dekker and Stefan Kolev – Was Carl Menger the last member of the Older Historical School?

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Chair: Nicolás Dvoskin

• Ivan Boldyrev – Realities of formalization: How Soviet scholars moved from control engineering to the general theory of choice
• Elizaveta Burina – The socialist planification debate: inside Gosplan and beyond
• Amanar Akhabbar – Wassily Leontief’s mobilization of the input output terminology: Input output ratios from engineering to economics

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Organizer and chair: Francesco Sergi

• Romain Plassard and Matthieu Renault – From theory to policy-making: The rise and fall of disequilibrium macroeconomics in Europe
• Juan Acosta, Antonella Rancan, and Francesco Sergi – Centralized and decentralized strategies for multi-country macroeconometric modelling. The case of the European Commission (1978-1991)
• Aurélien Goutsmedt and Alexandre Truc – Fostering the European integration of economics: An intellectual and institutional history of the European Economic Review

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Chair: Jimena Hurtado Prieto

• John Berdell and José M. Menudo – ‘Jealousy of Credit’ and fear of money from John Law to Henry Thornton
• Pierre Januard – Licit and illicit risks in Thomas Aquinas’s De emptione et venditione ad tempus
• Arild Sæther – How John Locke discovered and used Pufendorf’s ideas of political economy?
• Luigino Bruni and Paolo Santori – Theological voluntarism and the Invisible Hand: From Duns Scotus to Smith via

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[tab title=”Friday, December 10″]

14:00 – 15:30h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Oleg Ananyin

• Oleg Ananyin – Why “profit upon alienation” is not a flawed concept?
• Juan Carvajalino – Homo economicus and homo ludens: where does von Neumann’s analogy come from?
• Vishal Choudhury – The Marxian analysis of class and the concept of penetration of capital

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Organizer and chair: Gerardo Serra

• David Damtar – Moral economy and beyond: Gold, gold mining, and contesting mineral wealth in mid-twentieth century Asante
• Gerardo Serra – Poverty, land and community: J.B. Danquah on economic inequality                
• Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon – Tracing ideas of an unequal world in the literary works of Ayi Kwei Armah and Ama Ata Aidoo

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[toggle type=”white” title=”FRI 1C: The History and Fate of Lucas’s Expectations and the Neutrality of Money, 50 Years Later” active=””]

Organizer and chair: Sylvie Rivot

• Mauro Boianovsky – J.S. Mill, W. Roscher and D.H. Robertson: The early history of the monetary misperceptions hypothesis
• Robert W. Dimand – Lucas and Tobin: Debating the New Classical Challenge to Keynesian Economics
• Bruna Ingrao – Historical and theoretical puzzles about Lucas’s research program in the early 1970s
• Sylvie Rivot – Lucas (1972) from Friedman (1968) perspective

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[toggle type=”white” title=”FRI 1D: Calculation and Desire: Psychological Foundations of Viennese Political Economy” active=””]

Organizer: Max Ehrenfreund

Chair: Erwin Dekker

• Max Ehrenfreund – Socialist Calculation in a Society of Calculators: Accounting in Imperial Germany and Austria
• Simon Torracinta – States of Desire: The Socialist Calculation Debate over Incommensurable Wants
• Ohad Reiss-Sorokin – The Struggle Over the “Soul”: The Unity of Geistkreis Thinking in the Battlefield of Ideas of Interwar Vienna
• Erik Baker – The Psychology of Affluence: Abraham Maslow’s Political Economy

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16:30 – 18:00h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Dieter Bögenhold

• Richard van den Berg and Jose de Kruif – A structural approach to the reception history of economic thought: The OnTRAQH Project
• Jonathan F. Cogliano – ‘The core’ and the imagined past of economic theory: A case of the ‘false fruit’ of practitioner’s history
• Dieter Bögenhold – The boundaries of economics: How the interplay of different social sciences has changed

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Chair: Maria Pia Paganelli

• Roni Hirsch – Creativity and Social Organization: The Pragmatist Foundations of Knight’s Theory of Profit
• David Andrews – Pax Marshallana                            
• Nicola Giocoli – The Chicago School and the irrelevance of predation

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Chair: Irwin Collier

• Till Düppe – How Western science corrupts class consciousness: East Germany’s presence at IIASA
• Mu-Jeong Kho – Thorstein Veblen and Radical Turn: Whether the crisis ‘Covid-19 pandemic’ can truly act as trigger for self-organising a new resilient system of higher education?
• Juliette Blayac – From thrift to consumerism: Jessica Peixotto and the shift of American society during the progressive Era

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Organizer and chair: Guillaume Vallet 

• Pedro N. Teixeira –Economic and political debates about child labour in early twentieth century America
• Jane Knodell – The transformative effect of WWI on the US monetary-fiscal regime
• Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and Guillaume Vallet– How to promote the common good through a new “business ethics”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s contribution

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18:30 – 19:30h (UTC +1)

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“Agriculture, Nature, and Economic Knowledge: Rural Economy and Its Thinkers in the Long Nineteenth Century”

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14:00 – 15:30h (UTC +1)

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Organizer and chair: Isabella M Weber

• Evan Wasner – The Soviet Industrialization Debate, the NEP, and theories of economic planning in the Soviet Union
• Tim Barker – Capital goods inflation and the arms economy: A longer view of stagflation in U.S. economic history
• Andrew Elrod – Wage restraint and incomes policies: A US post-war perspective
• Isabella Weber – Marketization beyond shock therapy: China’s Reform Debate

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Organizer and chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte

Panelists: Adriane Dupont-Kieffer, Elisa Grandi, Mary Morgan, Erwin Dekker

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Organizer and chair: Maria Bach

• Maria Bach – What counts in the periphery? Evidence from Indian and Nigerian National Accounts
• Eléonore Chantal-Bernard – The economic concept of scarcity in the British Indian imperial context (1860s-1910s)
• Nadeera Rajapakse – Representing women migrant workers through the Capability Approach. Revisiting the concepts of vulnerability and rationality

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[toggle type=”white” title=”SAT 1D: Historicizing Interventionist Economic Knowledge (1), 1950s-1980s” active=””]

Organizers: Verena Halsmayer and Eric Hounshell

Chair: Harro Maas

• Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac – The changing contours of development planning: economic expertise at the Colombian National Planning Department, 1958-1970
• Aurélien Goutsmedt – How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s: the Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act
• Zoé Evrard – Explaining the survival of the Belgian Planning Bureau and the power of its expertise despite the crisis of planning

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16:30 – 18:00h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Joanna Kinga Sławatyniec

• Agnes Simon – Balogh and Kaldor: Economic expertise, political involvement, and the economist’s public image
• Joanna Kinga Sławatyniec – When science is for sale–Edwin W. Kemmerer–a 1920’s Bond Man or the International Man of Mystery? Inquisitions into the Mystery of Value
• Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay – Richard Musgrave and the art of tax reform

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Chair: Carlo Zappia

• Victor Cruz-e-Silva and Felipe Almeida – Correa Moylan Walsh beyond index numbers: From the “battle of the standards” to the science of money
• John Davis – Keynes’s Treatise on Probability 100 Years Later: Small vs. large worlds and closed vs. open systems
• Carlo Zappia – A note on the most enduring message of Keynes’s Treatise on Probability

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Chair: Ricardo F. Crespo

• Ricardo F. Crespo – The Ontology of the economy: linking proposals
• Jorge Morales Meoqui – The demystification of David Ricardo’s famous four numbers

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[toggle type=”white” title=”SAT 2D: Historicizing Interventionist Economic Knowledge (2), 1970s-2000s” active=””]

Organizers: Verena Halsmayer and Eric Hounshell

Chair: Ivan Boldyrev

• Christina Laskaridis – Measuring sovereign risk: the 1970s and the development of early warning models
• Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche – Setting rational wages? Economic expertise in the comparable worth controversy, 1979-1989
• Jérémy Grosman – Turning schools into matching markets

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18:30 – 19:30h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Ross Emmett

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19:30 – 20:30h (UTC +1)

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Chairs: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Ibanca Anand

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[tab title=”Sunday, December 12″]

14:00 – 15:30h (UTC +1)

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Chair: Ana I. Rosado Cubero

• Christian Walter – The random walk model in finance: old issues and new insight
• Sebastiaan Tieleman – Model transfer and universal patterns – Lessons from the Yule process

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Chair: Robert W. Dimand

• Gianluca Damiani – Looking for a ’genuine Science of Politics’. William H. Riker and the Game Theoretical turn in Political Science
• Catherine Herfeld – Early engagements with the ‘Theory of Games and Economic Behavior’ at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1955–An acknowledgement analysis
• Robert W. Dimand – The Cowles summer research conferences on economics and statistics 1935-1940: Building a community for mathematical economics and econometrics

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[toggle type=”white” title=”SUN 1C: Economic Policy from Past to Future” active=””]

Chair: Edward Nik-Khah

• Patrick Fontaine – Inflation and underdevelopment: Ideas from the creation of ECLAC
• Edward Nik-Khah – Platforming Economics
• Stefan Arne Kesting and Paolo Silvestri – An institutional economics of the gift?

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Chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte

• Harro Maas – Marshall’s narratives: A composite portrait
• Guilhem Lecouteux – The Homer Economicus narrative: On a psychologically flawed justification of epistocracy, from the human relations school to nudging policies
• Alexandra Quack and Catherine Herfeld – The role of narratives in transferring rational choice models from economics into political science

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16:30 – 18:00h (UTC +1)

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Organizer and Chair: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

• Ana Rosado – Cartelization of businesses: The economics arguments of politicians
• Marianne Johnson– Taxation in the Progressive Era: From Revenue to Social Policy
• Javier San Julian Arrupe– The Federal Income Tax of 1894: Modernization of public finance at the outset of American Progressive Era

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Chair: Maria Pia Paganelli

• Maria Pia Paganelli – Adam Smith’s digression on silver: The centerpiece of the Wealth of Nations
• Shinji Nohara – Adam Smith on moral norms
• Vishal Choudhury – Adam Smith in Beijing: The market, the state and society

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Chair: Pierre Januard

• Caroline Bastide and Philippe Steiner – Calculation and morality
• Agnès Le Tollec – Finding a new home (economics): Toward a science of the rational family, 1924-1981

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Organizer: Bert Tieben

Chair: Harro Maas

• Bert Tieben – The early history of Dutch economic thought
• Erwin Dekker and Willem Cornax – Elizabeth van Dorp and the women’s question at the intersection of bourgeois ideals and liberal economics
• Jan Middendorp – The use of economic norms to bridge the gap between academics and policymaking in the 1950s and 1960s in the Netherlands

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Asynchronous Video Presentations:

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