Maria Bach

We need better economics education. #teachecon

Article: Women and economics in interwar Italy: the case of five Italian journals from 1918 to 1939, by Giulia Zacchia & Marcella Corsi
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Haha you’re so right! Trust economics to add fancy words to something so simple/basic : a human

Now I agree that it’s not a good term, it equates humans (living natural thing) with capital (a dead completely invented thing). It’s like using technological terms for humans - bandwidth, processing power, etc.

But doesn’t education describe the means to produce human capital and not the end - human capital: what actually produces goods/increases productivity?

Interesting discussion but training and education describe the ingredients to produce human capital, no? (The means) and does not describe the end - human capital (what actually produces goods). LAlZe

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).

Check out the latest episode with Dr. Saarang Narayan all about #Swadeshi. Listen here: ceterisneverparibus.net/an-interview... #historyofeconomics #historyofindianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social

Highly recommended experience for young historian of econ thought!

Tremendous conversation!

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast: Episode Ninety Six Jennifer and François are joined by our first return guest, Catherine Herfeld, Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics at the Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. ...

In their great podcast, I try to answer a set of challenging questions asked by Jennifer Jhun and François Allison about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and about how I would classify my work in the disciplinary landscape, among other things: hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-nine...

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: Uncovering the hidden value of unpaid work: a global history of marginalized metrics, by Maylis Avaro & Johanna Gautier-Morin
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Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture by Ibanca Anand This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.

[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?

Thanks

A review of Miriam Bankovsky's book (Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History), by Virginie Gouverneur
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A new issue of HOPE is available now. This is a special issue on 'The History of Economics Unbound'
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Oh la la ! Courage 💪🏽 and thank you for sharing - I feel the same way. It’s a marathon and we’re only half way through 😢

Check out an interview with me talking about my book!
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Colourful cover of the book METHODS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A User's Guide EDITED BY SOPHIE J. VEIGL AND ADRIAN CURRIE

Delighted to receive my own copy! Here is the press site where eventually the volume will be available as open access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255224... well done again @adrian-currie.bsky.social @phieveigl.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the deadline for job applications at @crestumr.bsky.social is this Sunday, the 16th midnight

If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine

Will or will it not be the last revision of this article!? It’s been a long difficult process, but comments continue to be extremely useful!
Current title- a tale of two national accounts: reciprocal histories of counting in the USA and India, 1850-1880

The 3rd annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET) will be held at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram on 11th & 12th October 2026.

@shoet.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

CfP will be released Feb/Mar 2026.

New book: A History of Polish Economic Thought, by Marek Ratajczak
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Mariia Romanova (Vienna) on the accounting reform in Russia #hisreco2025

17th HISRECO Conference Program Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…

HISRECO-2025 starts tomorrow at the department of Economics and Business Economics, Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University
Thrilled to welcome many wonderful colleagues to Nijmegen!
(will try to post sth here with h/t #HISRECO2025)

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Article: History as Pedagogy and Weapon: The Origin of Doctrinal Histories of Economic Thought in Britain, by Ryan Walter
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