European Society for the History of Economic Thought

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"Economic thinking proceeds both by accumulation and elimination. Elimination is not always for the best. The global financial crisis is a vivid example. Many discarded theories turned out to be relevant. More knowledge of history of thought would have prepared us better" (Olivier Blanchard).

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28th Annual ESHET Conference: TORINO, May 22-24, 2025

"It's the end of economics (as we know it)", or the changing status of economics from a historical perspective [click!].

Websitehttps://www.eshet-conference.net/torino

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Conference venue: Università di Torino, Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100A, 10153 Torino. Main sponsors: Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis" (website) and Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino 

Proposals for papers or sessions on all aspects of the history of economic thought are welcome. As usual, participation in the conference is restricted to ESHET members. Renew your membership... or become an ESHET member.

Save the date! And note that there are at least 10 other good reasons to participate in the ESHET Conference in Torino.

We are eager to receive your thoughts about how ESHET2025 should beSend us suggestions, and feel free to contact us for any inquiries.

Contacts: eshet2025@unito.it 

 

ESHET Awards 2025 - Call for Nominations

The ESHET Council invites nominations for the Awards that will be announced at the next annual Conference in Torino, Italy, 22-25 May 2025 [click!].

 

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1/ The BEST MONOGRAPH AWARD is for the best book (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought published during 2023 or 2024. The author can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the prize to deliver the Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui Lecture. Note that, in supplement, the Council can also give a BEST SCHOLARLY EDITION AWARD.
 
2/ The HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AWARD is for the best article (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought, published in the issue of a scientific journal during 2023 or 2024. Candidates can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the prize, and will receive 500 euro.
 
3/ The ESHET YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD. This prize recognizes scholarly achievements of historians of economic thought at an early stage of their career. The prize is awarded to scholars below the age of 40 at the time of the annual conference in recognition of outstanding publications in the history of economic thought. It consists of 1,000 euro and a waiving of the conference fee when the prize is awarded.
 
4/ The GILLES DOSTALER AWARD is an award created in the memory of Gilles Dostaler, thanks to the generosity of his widow Marielle Cauchy. This prize recognizes scholarly achievements of young research fellows working on one of Gilles Dostaler’s many fields of interest — e.g., Marx and Classical political economy, Keynes, Hayek, critical approaches to free markets theories, relationships between economics, politics, philosophy and ethics, etc. It is awarded to scholars below the age of 35 at the time of the annual conference in recognition of an outstanding article not necessarily already published or published within the two previous years. It consists of 500 euro and a waiving of the conference fee when the prize is awarded.
 
Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, but not later than 30 December 2024 to the Chair of the relevant panel:
 
1/ Best Book Award & Scholarly Edition Award: Renee Prendergast (r.prendergast@qub.ac.uk)
 
2/ Best Article Award: Nathalie Sigot (nathalie.sigot@univ-paris1.fr)
 
3/ Young Researcher Award: Carlo Zappia (carlo.zappia@unisi.it)
 
4/ Gilles Dostaler Award: Michel Zouboulakis (mzoub@uth.gr)
 
Please note also the following points.
 
1/ Self-nominations are not accepted for any of the prizes.
Nominations for the book and article prizes should include:
(i) Full bibliographic details of the book or article.
(ii) A short statement (in English) of why the book or article merits being considered for a prize.
(iii) An electronic copy of the book or article, if this is available.
 
2/ Nominations for the Young Researcher Award should include:
(i) A short resume stating the achievements of the candidate.
(ii) A CV with list of publications.
 
Subsequently each nominee will be asked to submit to the Council three publications on which s/he wishes to be judged.
 
The final decision on each of the prizes will be made by the Council of ESHET in Torino.
 
Rules for Awards
- No current member of the Council, Executive Committee or Senate is eligible for an academic prize or grant awarded by ESHET.
- Nobody can receive more than one award of the Society for the same work.
- Any member of an awarding committee needs to declare the extent of his/her institutional connections and/or extent of collaboration with the persons eligible for academic prizes.

Mauro Boianovski

Mauro Boianovsky recently passed away. 

Former ESHET President Hans-Michael Trautwein recalls Mauro's qualities and research achievements in a tribute.

President and Executive Committee: Election results

Richard Sturn is elected as ESHET President for the period 2024-2026.

Members of the Executive Committee (2024-2026):
Mario Cedrini, Maxime Desmaray-Tremblay, Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, Paolo Paesani and Estrella Trincado-Aznar.

Newsletter: A year of activities

This Newsletter provides summary information on the activities undertaken by ESHET in 2023. It is an invitation to members of ESHET, and those currently not members, to become better acquainted with the major programs of this academic society – aimed at the development of the history of economic thought as an essential field of study and the strengthening of the community of history of economic thought scholars, committed to sharing the results of its research with a broader audience.

A joint X account for HES and ESHET

 

Did you know? HES and ESHET have a joint account on X. Contact Valentina Erasmo to share any event related to our community, like seminars, conferences, new issues, calls for papers, scholarships, etc.

https://x.com/Societies_HET