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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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Honorary Member: Harro Maas
The ESHET Council offers honorary membership to distinguished scholars in the field of the history of economic thought. The list of Honorary Members is at https://www.eshet.net/honorary-members/.
Harro Maas (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) has been nominated Honorary Member in 2025. He gave his lecture at the ESHET Annual Conference in Nice.
President and Executive Committee: Election results
Angelina Ambrosino, Claudia Sunna, Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Paolo Paesani, Juan San Julian Aruppe are elected as members of the Executive Committee for the period 2026-2028.
The current President and Executive Committee will remain in office until the next ESHET Conference, 26-29 May 2026, in Nice
President (2024-26): Richard Sturn
Members of the Executive Committee (2024-26): Mario Cedrini, Maxime Desmaray-Tremblay, Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, Paolo Paesani and Estrella Trincado-Aznar
ESHET Research Grants 2025
The Jury for the 2025 ESHET Research Grants (Margaret Schabas, Claire Silvant and Hans-Michael Trautwein) decided to award the projects
"The Economic Calculus: Accounting and the Making of the German Middle Class"
presented by Max Ehrenfreund (Kenyon College)
and
"Pragmatism, de Finetti, and the Emergence of Subjective Probability (1920s–1930s)"
presented by Caterina Sisti (Università di Torino)
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
26-29 May 2026
For the first time, the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES) are organizing a joint international conference. This historic event will take place at Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, hosted by GREDEG (Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Économie et Gestion).
Nobel Prize 2025
ESHET extends its warmest congratulations to Joel Mokyr, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Appointed an honorary member of ESHET in 2017, Joel Mokyr "studied how growth became sustained as a result of a set of key prerequisites that were not jointly present prior to the Industrial Revolution, but have been since then. Of central importance is how science interacts with technology, i.e., economic production in practice and that society welcomes technological change".
Congratulations, Joel!
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.