The 54th annual meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) will be hosted by the Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability, at the University of Greenwich in London, from the 4th to the 6th of September 2024.
THETS is one of the longest established groups of scholars with an interest in the history of economic thought, the history of economics and economic knowledge. Annual meetings have been organized since 1968.
Papers dealing with any aspect of the history of economic thought (HET) from any period are welcome. We encourage submissions from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences {submissions are now closed} . We welcome and encourage papers taking a non-European or global perspective, particularities of pedagogical approaches and practice of the HET in contemporary universities, and present-day significance of engagement with the HET in economics as a field in need of decolonising, intersectionality, and interdisciplinarity. Presentations by PhD students and early career scholars are particularly encouraged. The Society will make available a limited number of stipends to cover part of the cost of attendance for young scholars.
| THETS 2024 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH | ||
| WED 4 SEP | ||
| 13.00 – 13.45 | Arrival and registration | |
| 13.45 | Conference Welcome | Dr. Richard van den Berg, THETS Chairperson, Kingston University |
| Dr. Yuliya Yurchenko, University of Greenwich | ||
| Session 1 Queen Anne, QA265 | Chair: Dr. Claudia Jefferies, City University of London | |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Worlds Apart? The emergence of the Economics of Education in Economics and Education (1960-1980) | Prof. Pedro Teixeira, University of Porto |
| All Roads Lead to Rochester: Henry Manne, The Economics Institutes for Law Professors, and the Making of the Law and Economics Movement | Dr David Gindis, University of Warwick | |
| Environment and development in early 20th-century Brazil: Francisco Simch’s political economy of coal | Dr. Marco Vianna Franco, CY Cergy Paris University | |
| Session 2 Queen Anne, QA265 | Chair: Prof. Steven Medema, Duke University | |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | ||
| Marketplace Engineering: The Development of Network Revenue Management Systems in the Airline Industry in the 1990s | Dr. Guillaume Yon, Aachen University | |
| … and social telescopes saw the light: evidence-based politics, research policy, and natural experiments in recent context | Dr. José Edwards, Independent researcher | |
| Dinner (University of Greenwich) | ||
| THURS 5 SEP | ||
| Session 3 Queen Anne, QA265 | Chair: Dr. Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay, Université de Lorraine | |
| 9.30 – 11.00 | Consumption and waste in early 19th century political economy | Louise Villeneuve, Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Individual prices and causal explanation in the Bodin-Malestroit debate of 1568 | David Batt, University of Notre Dame | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Dr. Yuliya Yurchenko, University of Greenwich | |
| 11.30 – 13.00 Queen Anne, QA265 | Why did capital matter for Smith? | Dr. Shinji Nohara, University of Tokyo |
| Karl Marx, Max Weber, and the Discourse of Geldmacht: Theories and Misconceptions of Capital | Dr. Gertjan Schutte, Theological University Kampen, Utrecht | |
| Hegel’s approach to private property rights | Dr. Benedikt Koehler, Institute of Economic Affairs | |
| Session 5 Queen Anne, QA265 | General Discussion: Facilitator Dr. Jeff Powell, University of Greenwich | |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Decolonising HET: what progress? | |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | THETS AGM, Facilitator Dr. Richard van den Berg | |
| Session 6 Queen Anne, QA265 | Chair: Dr. Cem Oyvat, University of Greenwich | |
| 16.00 – 17.30 | Maurice Morgann, antislavery and imperial political economy after the Seven Years’ War | Ana Paula Londe Silva, University of Glasgow |
| Richard Whately, Political Economist Exemplar | Dr. Nathanael Snow, Ball State University | |
| Piero Sraffa and the preservation of Gramsci’s Notebooks | Dr. Nerio Naldi, Sapienza University of Rome | |
| 18.00 | Conference Dinner (Trafalgar Tavern) | |
| FRI 6 SEP | ||
| Session 7 Stockwell 11_2017 | Chair: Tom Lawrence, University of Greenwich | |
| 10.00 – 11.30 | Misinterpretations of Hume’s thought experiment on the international adjustment mechanism | Prof. Tamás Dusek, Széchenyi István University |
| David Ricardo’s Model of Economic Growth: A New Diagrammatic Presentation and Dynamic Analysis | Dr. Ben Ferrett, Loughborough University | |
| Genealogies of Market Design: The Role of General Equilibrium | Dr. Ivan Boldyrev, Radboud University Nijmegen | |
| Closing | Dr. Yuliya Yurchenko and Dr. Richard van den Berg | |
| 13.00 – 16.00 | London HET walking tour | Led by Dr. Richard van den Berg |
The registration fee for the conference is £150 (£100 for students). There is a charge of £50 for the conference dinner.
Important dates:Full papers are to be submitted by 28 July 2024.
Please register for the conference by 19 August 2024.
Registration:
Conference attendance is for THETS members. The annual membership fee is £20. To join or renew your membership, please pay the annual membership fee here
Concessional registration is available for Masters students and unfunded Early Career Researchers. If in doubt about whether you are eligible, please contact us.
Registration Options:
➡ For payment of full conference registration only (£150), please click here
➡ For payment of full conference registration plus conference dinner (£200), please click here
➡ For payment of concession conference registration plus conference dinner (£150) please click here
➡ For payment of concession conference registration only (£100) please click here
If you would like to pay by bank transfer, please contact the THETS Treasurer, Claudia Jeffries for information: Claudia.Jefferies.1@city.ac.uk
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