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📢 With @tomduterme.bsky.social & Ariane Gemander, we’re pleased to invite you to the 6th workshop of the Belgian Political Economy Working Group on Friday, June 19, 2026, at ICHEC Brussels.

📆 Abstract proposals due by April 10 -- Email us.

Deux postes de doctorant·e·s à pourvoir au Centre Walras Pareto pour la rentrée 2026

un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire de la pensée et philosophie économiques

un·e Assistant diplômé·e en Histoire des idées politiques

Délai de postulation : 2 mai 2026!

Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics. An Interview with... Julien Gradoz: The idea for this interview arose when I realized there’s virtually no research specifically dedicated to book reviews in the history of economics—or even in economics more broadly. ...

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
I love writing book reviews. They’re still a place where you can debate ideas, something that’s becoming a bit rarer in academia. OEconomia is especially great for this.The editors give us plenty of room to engage fully with the books we review.

Image générée par ChatGPT qui suggère un choix à faire entre différentes avenues pour la transition écologique.

Comment comprendre l'opposition populaire aux politiques économiques en faveur de la transition climatique? En puisant dans la philosophie morale, je propose dans cet article de repenser la façon dont on conceptualise les individus en économie shs.cairn.info/tap-p5ok4044...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Jonny Bunning (@bunnjey.bsky.social) wrote his dissertation on the history of human capital. It doesn't seem to be available online though.

I have question from a colleague about the history of the concept of human capital. Any advice? Literature recommendations? @shoet.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @cleocz.bsky.social @vhalsmayer.bsky.social

🎉 Yesterday was the official publication date of my book Conversations on Rational Choice, CUP. So, it really exists and you can order your copy (pic by @maltedold.bsky.social because I still dont own one).

Article: Land, Space, or Cities: a History of Urban Economics as a Field, by Beatrice Cherrier & Anthony Rebours
doi.org/10.1017/S105...

Don't hesitate to write to me and @thomasdelcey.bsky.social if you have any questions!

Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Metho... Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy invites submission of articles that present, discuss, or make innovative use of data and quantitative methods in the study of the history, philosophy, ...

Reminder: OEconomia has launched a new permanent call journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

We’re looking for contributions about
- New databases for history/philosophy of economics (prosopographic datasets, digitized corpora...)
- New methods & applications (e.g. how LLMs can advance the field)

.@aurelien-goutsmedt.com and I are trying to document the transformation of labour economics. Timing, scope and nature of the transition towards the 'analytical' labour economics are key focus.

Some very familiar patterns are confirmed, some surprising one emerge too (more to come!) 📈📊📜

Next week, I will be giving a talk on the history of market design in Paris

Venez nombreux!

Thursday 19.02.2026 (6:00-8:00 pm)
at the Maison des Sciences Économiques, room S.17, 106-112 bd de l’Hôpital,
To join the seminar via Zoom, please register at framaforms.org/zoom-cee-167...

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You can also observe this through the increasing use of math in textbooks:

Some snapshots from ongoing work with @cleocz.bsky.social & Liu Li:

Looking at labor economics textbooks over time, you see the discipline shift in the 1970s.

Earlier textbooks revolve around industrial relations & trade unions. Later ones centre on labor markets & human capital.

Digging into the JEEA special issue below, I was wondering if anyone knows of articles, reports, or resources on the history of economic journal ranking?

When and how academic/public institutions began ranking journals?

Quand l’histoire résonne Tarifs douaniers, circulation des navires de commerce entravée, réarmement généralisé, retour des occupations et des annexions territoriales, etc. On sent bien qu’il se passe quelque chose depuis q...

Très intéressantes réflexions de Matthieu Renault à propos de l'ouvrage de @arnaudorain.bsky.social. Pas inutiles (voir fondamental) par les temps qui courent.

journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

Somehow I had completely missed the launch of this new student-oriented journal in the history of economic thought.

The call has just closed for the joint ESHET-HES conference (May 26–29, 2026). We received more than ... 460 submissions.

Conversations on Rational Choice Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Conversations on Rational Choice

🔥 My book Conversations on Rational Choice is finally out: Conversation partners include Kenneth Arrow, Gary Becker, C. Bicchieri, D. Kahneman, P. Suppes, Christian List, Vernon Smith, Tom Schelling, L.A.Paul, C. Camerer, Martin Shubik, R. Kranton, and many others. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Article: A forgotten epistocracy? Political institutions and epistemic virtues in Hayek’s market liberalism, by Samuel Ferey & Daniel Zarama Rojas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Current ScholarshipRedefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics Aurélien Goutsmedt & Francesco Sergi

📣 New scholarship by @aurelien-goutsmedt.com & Francesco Sergi : a sharp conceptual reframing of "scientization" in central banking, treating central banks as boundary organizations at the intersection of science and politics. justmoney.org/redefining-s...

There’s also an open-source interactive app built with @rshiny.bsky.social to explore the results:
019adac8-81d4-aa0e-808c-08861c261fd2.share.connect.posit.cloud (limited users)

We would be very happy to receive comments, feedback, or suggestions.

#rstats

Methodologically, we combine:
➡️ large language model–based sentence embeddings,
➡️ bibliometric and network analysis,
➡️ unsupervised clustering techniques,
to track both semantic shifts (how rationality is discussed) and intellectual structures (how ideas circulate through citations).

New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)

#rstats #EconSky

I'm glad to see this special issue I coedited with Christian Bessy and Erwin Dekker published! Great articles inside and great colleagues :)

15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics

➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

15-2 | 2025 Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts

2 Œconomia issues for the price of 1!
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:

➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

Check out an interview with me talking about my book!
newbooksnetwork.com/relocating-d...

👉🏻 Today 👀@miriambankovsky.bsky.social is presenting some work of her new book on the role and place of families in economic thinking and social policies at the Cercle d’épistémologie at the MSH in Paris.
@rehpere.bsky.social

Registrations to join are still open!
rehpere.org/2025/11/25/c...