In this page you find videos of some of the events organized by HES, its annual meeting and the ASSA-HES sessions, as well as videos from events supported by HES grants.
HES Annual Conferences
Plenary 1: SMITH AT 301
Chair: Jimena Hurtado, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Participants:
Sandra J. Peart. University of Richmond
Alejandra Carrasco, Universidad de los Andes (Chile)
Leonidas Montes, Centro de Estudios Públicos
Plenary 2: DAVID HUME’S UNCONVENTIONAL CONVENTIONALIST THEORY OF PROPERTY
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chair: Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Universidad del Desarrollo
Presidential Address: WAS HUME A MERCANTILIST? FOR SMITH, YES. DAVID HUME AND ADAM SMITH ON MONEY
Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity University
“Plenary 1: History of Economic Freedom Indices”
Chair: Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria
Participants:
- Michael Walker (Fraser Institute)
- Robert Lawson (Southern Methodist University)
“Plenary 2: China and the Global Crisis of the 1640s”
Chair: Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia
Speaker: Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia
“Plenary 3: Award Winners”
Chair: Jimena Hurtado, Universidad de Los Andes
Speakers:
- Matheus Assaf (EESP – Fundação Getúlio Vargas)
- Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (The American University of Paris)
- Bruce Caldwell (Duke University)
“Remembering Geoff Harcourt (1931-2021)”
Chair: Ross Emmett, Arizona State University
- A Cambridge Economist from Down Under
Mauro Boianovsky, University of Brasília (virtual) - Reminiscences:
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Università di Roma La Sapienza
John Berdell, DePaul University
Constantinos Repapis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Plenary Speaker Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Università di Roma La Sapienza
“Investment and Speculation: Keynes’s Views and His Strategies in the Stock Market”
HES Presidential Address
Marcel Boumans, Utrecht UniversityThe History of Economics as Economic Self-Portraiture
Introduced by Ross Emmett, Arizona State University
All Conference videos can be found on the December 2021 Virtual Conference page
Welcome Message from Marcel Boumans, President
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 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 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 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 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 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 subfield of economics
Evelyn Forget’s Presidential Address: “Folk Wisdom in Economics”
Douglas Irwin’s Keynote: “The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution”
Anwar Shaikh’s Keynote: “Constructing a Classical-Keynesian Paradigm in Economics”
Panel Discussion: “Archival Round Table”
CHAIR: David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bruce Caldwell, Duke University
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
Sara Seten Berghausen, Duke University Library
Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago
Mauro Boianovsky’s Presidential Address: “Economists and their travels, or the time when JFK sent Douglass North on a mission to Brazil”
(the slides are available here)
Samuel Hollander’s Plenary Session: “John Stuart Mill and the Jewish Question”
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey’s Plenary Session: “The Two Movements in Economic Thought, 1700-2000: Empty Economic Boxes Revisited”
Roundtable: “Economics, History and the Blogosphere: a roundtable on the history of recent macroeconomics”
(shorter edited video)
Participants: Pedro G. Duarte (University of São Paulo); Steve Ambler (Université du Québec à Montréal); Marcel Boumans (Erasmus University & University of Amsterdam); Kevin Hoover (Duke University)
Meet the JHET Authors
Maria Bach
In this short video, Maria Bach presents the main points of her paper entitled “A Win-Win Model of Development: How Indian Economics Redefined Universal Development From and At the Margins, 1870-1905,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2021 (vol. 43, no. 4).
Gil Hersch
In this short video, Gil Hersch presents the main points of his paper entitled “The Need for Governmental Inefficiency in Plato’s Republic,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2021 (vol. 43, no. 1).
Nicolas Vallois
In this short video, Nicolas Vallois presents the main points of their co-authored paper entitled “Jewish Social Science and the Analysis of Jewish Statistics in the Early Twentieth Century,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2021 (vol. 43, no. 1).
Felipe Almeida and Marco Cavalieri
In this short video, Felipe Almeida and Marco Cavalieri presents the main points of their co-authored paper entitled “Understanding Clarence Ayres’s Criticism of an Emerging Mainstream and Birthing Institutionalism through the 1930s Ayres-Knight Debate,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2020 (vol. 42, no. 3).
Till Düppe
In this short video, Till Düppe presents the main points of his paper entitled “War After War: Wilhelm Krelle, 1916-2004,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2020 (vol. 42, no. 3).
Gábor Bíró
In this short video, Gábor Bíró presents the main points of his paper entitled “Michael Polanyi’s Neutral Keynesianism and the First Economics Film, 1933 to 1945,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2020 (vol. 42, no. 3).
José Edwards
In this short video, José Edwards presents the main points of his paper entitled “Harry Helson’s Adaptation-Level Theory, Happiness Treadmills, and Behavioral Economics,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2018 (vol. 40, no. 1).
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
In this short video, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak presents the main points of his paper entitled “Dreams of Order and Freedom: Debating Trade Management in Early Seventeenth-Century England,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2018 (vol. 40, no. 3).
Yann Giraud
In this short video, Yann Giraud presents the main points of his paper entitled “Addressing the Audience: Paul Samuelson, Radical Economics, and Textbook Making, 1967-1973,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2020 (vol. 42, no. 2).
Spencer Banzhaf
In this short video, H. Spencer Banzhaf presents the main points of his paper entitled “The Environmental Turn in Natural Resource Economics: John Krutilla and “Conservation Reconsidered”,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2019 (vol. 41, no. 1).
Guy Numa
In this short video, Guy Numa presents the main points of his paper entitled “Léon Walras’s Theory of Public Interest Goods: Toward an Organic View of the State,” co-authored with Alain Béraud and published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2019 (vol. 41, no. 4).
Manuela Mosca
In this short video Manuela Mosca presents the main points of her paper, co-authored with Francesco Martelloni, entitled “De Viti de Marco, the ‘European War,’ and President Wilson,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2017 (vol. 40, no. 2).
Robert Leonard
In this short video, Robert Leonard presents the main points of his paper entitled “E. F. Schumacher and the Making of ‘Buddhist Economics,’ 1950-1973,” published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2019 (vol. 41, no. 2).
Mauro Boianovsky & Robert Dimand
In this short video Mauro Boianovsky (on the left of the video) and Robert Dimand (on the right) present the symposium they organized in memory of the distinguished historian of economics William J. Barber (1925-2016), published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) in 2019 (vol. 41, no. 3).
ASSA Annual Conferenes
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2022 ASSA: Economists, Economics and Indigenous Peoples
HES Session at the ASSA
Friday, January 7, 2022
Chair: Dominic Parker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Indigenous Nations and the Development of the United States Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession |
Francis A. Walker and the Indigenous Peoples of North America
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Economists and American Indian Private Property
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The Economist and Indigenous Economics: Challenging Realities? |
JEL Classifications
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Women and the Economics Profession After World War II
HES Session at the ASSA
Friday, January 7, 2022
Chair: Robert W. Dimand, Brock University
Sadie Alexander and Economics in the Interwar Period
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The Role of Economists in the Royal Commission on Equal Pay, 1944–1946
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The Role of Women Economists in the Social Reconstruction of Europe after World War II: The Case of the Organization for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC)
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A Progress Delayed: Women and the AEA before 1970
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| JEL Classifications B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925 A1 – General Economics |
Reflecting on Pluridisciplinarity and Economics
HES Session at ASSA
Saturday, Jan 8, 2022
- Chair: Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, Côte d´Azur University
Economics and Pluridisciplinarity: Methodological Issues and Future Prospects
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Agent-Based Approach and Economics: Quantifying Disciplinary Interaction
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Pluridisciplinarity as an Epistemological Device: The Case of Early Experimental Economics
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| JEL Classifications A1 – General Economics C0 – General |
The Computerization of Economics: Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics
HES Session at ASSA
Saturday, Jan 8, 2022
Chair: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, University of Cambridge
The Propagation and Consolidation of Technical Knowledge through Web Forums: The Statalist Case
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From Computors to Computers: The EDSAC and Cambridge Microeconometricians
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The Need for Speed: Electronic Computers in Business Forecasting at Mid-Century
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A Tale of Two Laboratories: The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics
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| JEL Classifications B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925 B4 – Economic Methodology |
Macro Agent-Based versus DGSE Modeling: A Short History of Two Competing Approaches to Macroeconomics
HES Session at the ASSA Conference
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021
Chair: David Colander, Middlebury College
Is Cross-Fertilization Possible in Macroeconomics? DSGE Confronts MAB Models
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Making a breach: the incorporation of agent-based models into the Bank of England’s toolkit
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Agent Based Macroeconomics: A Syncretic View
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B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925 E3 – Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles |
Economics and Racism – The Long View
History of Economics Session at the ASSA Conference
Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021
Chair: Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
Economists, Race and Racism: The Long View
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Fighting Racism with/in Economics? The Journey of Phyllis A. Wallace, 1944-1975
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Francis Galton’s Pictorial Statistics: The Eugenic Origins of Ethnic Profiling
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Guy Numa, Colorado State University |
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B0 – General B3 – History of Economic Thought: Individuals |
New Historical Perspectives on Women and Economics
History of Economics Session at the ASSA Conference
Monday, Jan. 4, 2021
CHAIR: John Singleton, University of Rochester
Feminist Economics versus Gender Neoclassical Economics: The Case of Barbara Bergmann’s Contribution on the Theory of Marriage
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A Quantitative History of Economic Research by Women (1940-2015)
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Controlling for What?’ Folk Economics, Legal Consciousness and the Gender Wage Gap in the United States
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The Lost Feminine Art of Consumption
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B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925 B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches |
Inequalities in the Progressive Era
History of Economics Session at the ASSA Conference
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021
Chair: Guillaume Vallet, University of Grenoble-Alpes
Inequalities and Industrial Democracy: Albion W. Small’s Progressive Views
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R.T. Ely and the Labor Problems
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Stephen Leacock on Political Economy and the Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
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The Tariff Question, the Labor Question, and Henry George’s Triangulation
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B1 – History of Economic Thought through 1925 N3 – Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy |
Webinar Series: Reproductive Rights
With the support of History of Economic Society and the Master program in the Theory and History of Economics at the University of Lyon 2, we are hosting a series of webinars that bring together historians of economic thought, applied economists, demographers, and political and critical theorists to consider the economics of reproductive rights in contemporary and historical context around the world.
| Marianne Johnson, Historian of Economics, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Wicksell on Population and Procreation Monday January 30 at 9am EST (GMT -05). 9am in New York; 15h in Lyon; 2pm in London; 1am (Tues) in Melbourne.  |
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Miriam Bankovsky, Political Theorist and Historian of Economics, La Trobe University Alfred Marshall weighs in on the Victorian Family Limitation Debates: Principles for Improved Living Standards and the Politics of “Voluntary Restraint” Tuesday February 07 at 4am EST (GMT -05). 4am in New York; 10h in Lyon; 9am in London; 8pm in Melbourne.  |
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Caitlin Myers, Economist, Middlebury College From Roe to Dobbs: 50 years of Abortion Policy and the Economic Research that has Studied it Wednesday February 15 at 1pm EST (GMT – 05) New York; 19h in Lyon; 6pm in London; 5am in Melbourne. Apple Podcast: The economics of abortion (with Caitlin Myers), Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer |
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Mayra Pineda-Torres, Microeconomist, Georgia Institute of Technology Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology and Women’s Education: The Economic Impacts of Abortion Access Friday February 24 at 8am EST (GMT – 05). 8am in New York; 14h in Lyon; 1pm in London; midnight in Melbourne.  |
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Jemima Repo, Reader in Political and Feminist Theory, Newcastle University The Multiple Legacies of Gary Becker’s Economics of Reproduction: Refiguring Reproduction and the Governance of Populations (A Discussion). Thursday March 02 at 5am EST (GMT – 05). 5am in New York; 11h in Lyon; 10am in London; 9pm in Melbourne.  |
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Edith Kuiper, Feminist Economist, State University of New York at New Paltz Eugenics, Abortion, and Progressivism Friday March 17 at 10am EST (GMT – 05), 16h in Lyon, 3pm in London; 2am in Melbourne.  |
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Melanie Guldi, Economist, University of Central Florida Legal Access to Abortion and Contraception in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s Friday March 31 at 12:30pm EST (GMT -05). 12.30pm in New York; 18h in Lyon; 5pm in London; 3am (Sat) in Melbourne.  |