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: History of Economic Freedom Indices”

Chair: Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria

Participants:

  • Michael Walker (Fraser Institute)
  • Robert Lawson (Southern Methodist University)
YouTube video

“Plenary 2: China and the Global Crisis of the 1640s”

Chair: Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia

Speaker: Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia

YouTube video

“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)
YouTube video

“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
YouTube video

Plenary Speaker Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Università di Roma La Sapienza
“Investment and Speculation: Keynes’s Views and His Strategies in the Stock Market”

YouTube video

HES Presidential Address
Marcel Boumans, Utrecht UniversityThe History of Economics as Economic Self-Portraiture

Introduced by Ross Emmett, Arizona State University

YouTube video

All Conference videos can be found on the December 2021 Virtual Conference page

Welcome Message from Marcel Boumans, President

YouTube video

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
YouTube video

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’
YouTube video

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
YouTube video

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
YouTube video

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
YouTube video

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
YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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).

YouTube video

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

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

  • Ann Carlos, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Donna Feir, University of Victoria and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Angela Redish, University of British Columbia

Francis A. Walker and the Indigenous Peoples of North America

  • Ross B. Emmett, Arizona State University

Economists and American Indian Private Property

  • Ronald L. Trosper, University of Arizona

The Economist and Indigenous Economics: Challenging Realities?

  • Miriam Jorgensen, University of Arizona
  • Randall K.Q. Akee, University of California-Los Angeles
  • Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl, Virginia Military Institute
  • Jonathan Taylor, University of Arizona
JEL Classifications

  • B0 – General
  • N0 – General
YouTube video

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

  • Edith Kuiper, State University of New York-New Paltz

The Role of Economists in the Royal Commission on Equal Pay, 1944–1946

  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, University of Cambridge

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)

  • Giulia Zacchia, Sapienza University-Rome
  • Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Lyon 2-Triangle

A Progress Delayed: Women and the AEA before 1970

  • Ann Mari May, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Robert W. Dimand, Brock University
JEL Classifications
B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925
A1 – General Economics
YouTube video

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

  • John B. Davis, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam

Agent-Based Approach and Economics: Quantifying Disciplinary Interaction

  • Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, Côte d´Azur University
  • Alexandre Truc, Côte d´Azur University

Pluridisciplinarity as an Epistemological Device: The Case of Early Experimental Economics

  • Annie L. Cot, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Discussant(s):

  • Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, Côte d´Azur University
  • Annie L. Cot, University of Paris-Sorbonne
  • John B. Davis, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam
JEL Classifications
A1 – General Economics
C0 – General
YouTube video

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

  • Pierrick Dechaux, Network in Epistemology and History of Thought

From Computors to Computers: The EDSAC and Cambridge Microeconometricians

  • Chung-Tang Cheng, National Taipei University

The Need for Speed: Electronic Computers in Business Forecasting at Mid-Century

  • Laetitia Lenel, Humboldt University of Berlin

A Tale of Two Laboratories: The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics

  • Andrej Svorenčik, University of Mannheim
Discussant(s):

  • Marcel Boumans, University of Utrecht
  • Beatrice Cherrier, CNRS and ENSAE/Ecole Polytechnique
JEL Classifications
B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925
B4 – Economic Methodology
YouTube video

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

  • Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, University of Cote d’Azur, French National Centre for Scientific Research, and GREDEG

Making a breach: the incorporation of agent-based models into the Bank of England’s toolkit

  • Romain Plassard, Paris Dauphine University

Agent Based Macroeconomics: A Syncretic View

  • Domenico Delli Gatti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
JEL Classifications

B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925

E3 – Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

YouTube video

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

  • Sandra J. Peart, University of Richmond
  • David M. Levy, George Mason University

Fighting Racism with/in Economics? The Journey of Phyllis A. Wallace, 1944-1975

  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, University of Cambridge

Francis Galton’s Pictorial Statistics: The Eugenic Origins of Ethnic Profiling

  • Marcel Boumans, Utrecht University
Discussant(s)

Guy Numa, Colorado State University

JEL Classifications

B0 – General

B3 – History of Economic Thought: Individuals

YouTube video

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

  • Giandomenica Becchio, University of Torino

A Quantitative History of Economic Research by Women (1940-2015)

  • Christopher Brunet, HEC Montreal
  • Erin Hengel, University of Liverpool
  • Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams, University of Liverpool

Controlling for What?’ Folk Economics, Legal Consciousness and the Gender Wage Gap in the United States

  • Daniel Hirschman, Brown University
The Lost Feminine Art of Consumption

  • Agnes Le Tollec, ENS Paris Saclay and University of Paris I
JEL Classifications

B2 – History of Economic Thought since 1925

B5 – Current Heterodox Approaches

YouTube video

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

  • Virgile Chassagnon, University of Grenoble-Alpes
  • Guillaume Vallet, University of Grenoble-Alpes

R.T. Ely and the Labor Problems

  • Annie Cot, Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Stephen Leacock on Political Economy and the Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

  • Robert Dimand, Brock University

The Tariff Question, the Labor Question, and Henry George’s Triangulation

  • Stephen Meardon, Bowdoin College
JEL Classifications

B1 – History of Economic Thought through 1925

N3 – Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

YouTube video

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.

YouTube video

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.

YouTube video

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.

Caitlin Myers data website

Apple Podcast: The economics of abortion (with Caitlin Myers), Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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.

YouTube video

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.

YouTube video

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.

YouTube video

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.

YouTube video