HES at ASSA San Francisco 2025

The History of Economics Society (HES) will sponsor four sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings, January 3-5, 2025, in San Francisco, CA. The ASSA offers historians of economic thought an opportunity to present high-quality historical research to a wider audience of professional economists. Given this, preference will be given to proposals that are most likely…

HES-AFEE session at ASSA 2025

CFP HES-AFEE session at ASSA The History of Economics Society (HES) and the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) are pleased to announce their wish for a joint session on ‘John R. Commons, a founder of Original Institutional Economics’, to be hosted during the upcoming ASSA meetings in San Francisco, CA, January 3-5, 2025. Topic: Educated in the German tradition of economics…

5th JHET Online Writing Workshop

After very successful rounds of a series of workshops in the last four years, we are now running its fifth edition and we are here to invite you all to participate of its first session. The JHET Online Writing Workshops are conducted by Paul Dudenhefer, who has been for many years the managing editor of History of Political Economy…

HES 2023: Awards and Honors News

At the 2023 Annual Meeting the Society was proud to announce the following prize winners: Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society: Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize: Bruce Caldwell and Hansjörg Klausinger, Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, University of Chicago Press, 2022 Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize: Matheus Assaf, “Tracing…