The 55th Annual Meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) was held at the University of Warwick in Coventry on 3-5 September 2025. The conference was jointly hosted by the School of Law and the Department of Economics.
Here and here are brief news items about the conference.
Programme
| WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | Arrival & registration (S0.11) | |
| 12:30-12:45 | WELCOME David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK) Cecilia Lanata-Briones (University of Warwick, UK) | |
| 12:45-14:15 | SESSION 1 (3 x 30 min) Chair: Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (University of Lorraine, France) Hiroyuki Furuya (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan), “Adam Smith and Eighteenth-Century British Commercial Policy: The Methuen Treaty and the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty” Shengzhe Huang (University of Warwick, UK), “Sir Robert Hart and the Modernisation of the Chinese Maritime Customs System (1863-1911)” François Allisson (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), “A Road Not Taken: Late Classical Political Economy in 1870s Kiev” | |
| 14:15-14:45 | Break | |
| 14:45-16:15 | SESSION 2 (3 x 30 min) Chair: David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK) Dominic Walker (University of Cambridge, UK), “‘Legislators of the World’? Shelley’s Marshallian Legacy” Agnes Simon (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), “British Economics at the Crossroads: Economics, Politics, and the Economist as a Public Intellectual in Postwar Britain” Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (London School of Economics, UK), “Equal Pay for Equal Work, 1870-1970” | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Break | |
| 16:45-17:45 | SESSION 3 (2 x 30 min) Chair: Louise Villeneuve (Goldsmiths, London University, UK) Erbil Celik (Sheffield Hallam University & King’s College London, UK), “Monetary Unequal Exchange in Richard Cantillon’s Essai” Jou Ishii (Kanto Gakuin University, Japan), “The Influence of David Ricardo on John Barton’s Thought in His Early Stage” | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner (Rootes Restaurant) | |
| THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | SESSION 4 (3 x 30 min) Chair: Agnes Simon (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Pedro Puntoni (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil),“The ‘Discourses’ of Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo: Mercantilist Thinking in 17th Century Portugal” Richard Van den Berg (Independent, UK), “‘Relieve These Many Millions of the Human Race from Misery’: Henry Pattullo, Physiocracy and the Bengal Famine” Amal Shahid (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), “Protestantism, Political Economy and Colonialism: The Case of the Basel Mission in South India in the 19th Century” | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | ECONOMIC HISTORY PANEL Chair: Cecilia Lanata-Briones (University of Warwick, UK) Maxine Berg (University of Warwick, UK) Sascha Becker (University of Warwick, UK) Colin Lewis (London School of Economics, UK) | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch (Rootes Restaurant) | |
| 13:30-15:00 | SESSION 5 (3 x 30 min) Chair: Amal Shahid (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Ivan Boldyrev (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands), “How Advanced Could This Be? Episodes in the Mathematization of Economics” Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay* (University of Lorraine, France) & Poulami Sarkar (University of Lorraine, France), “Preference-Revelation Mechanisms for Public Goods in the 1970s” Herakles Polemarchakis (University of Warwick, UK), “The Assumption of Rationality” | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30-16:30 | SESSION 6 (2 x 30 min) Chair: Pedro Texeira (University of Porto, Portugal) Nat Dyer (Independent, UK), “The Life and Afterlife of David Ricardo’s Three Economic Humans” Louise Villeneuve (Goldsmiths, London University, UK), “William Stanley Jevons and the Psychological Foundations of Consumption” | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Break | |
| 17:00-18:00 | THETS BUSINESS MEETING | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner (Radcliffe House Restaurant) | |
| FRIDAY 5 SEPTEMBER | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | SESSION 7 (3 x 30 min) Chair: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (London School of Economics, UK) Andres Lazzarini (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), “Environmental History and the History of Economic Thought: Notes on Malthus, Boserup, Veblen and Ostrom” Pedro Texeira (University of Porto, Portugal), “Elective Affinities? Mapping the Reception of Gary Becker’s Work in Social Sciences” Lucie Rondeau du Noyer (CNRS & CIRED, France), “How European Economists Fuelled Energy Developmentalism Overseas (1950s-1970s)” | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | SESSION 8 (3 x 30 min) Chair: Ivan Boldyrov (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Tiziana Foresti* (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) & Ragupathy Venkatachalam (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), “Decision-Making and Problem-Solving: Tracing the Intellectual Lineage Between Thorstein Veblen, John Maurice Clark and Herbert Simon” Virgile Chassagnon (University of Grenoble Alpes, France) & Benjamin Lopez* (University of Grenoble Alpes, France), “History of Macroeconomic Thought and the Phenomenon of Aggregate Fluctuations (From the 20th to the Early 21st Century)” Artem Urlapov Sedova (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain), “Cambridge Capital Controversy in Historical and Social Context” | |
| 12:30-12:40 | CLOSING REMARKS David Gindis (University of Warwick, UK) Cecilia Lanata-Briones (University of Warwick, UK) | |
| 12:40-13:40 | Lunch (for the road) (Rootes Restaurant) | |
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