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Verena Halsmayer

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historian of economic knowledge/ modeling/ planning @univie.ac.at website: https://tinyurl.com/55ayxyxm

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Verena Halsmayer @vhalsmayer.bsky.social · Nov 6

So this is happening. Publication date is tomorrow.

Thank you, Beatrice, for the kind words :)

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · Oct 18

Coming soon: one of the best books I've read this year, and probably the clearest and deepest answer to the question "what's an economic model"

By the great Verena Halsmayer

#econsky

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Managing Growth in Miniature

Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Managing Growth in Miniature

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Maria Bach @mariabach.bsky.social · 3d

I am eventually going to take up @undercoverhist.bsky.social s idea of doing a podcast episode on how to write good reviewer reports. SO I need your help, send me 3 things every reviewer report needs AND/OR the worst reviewer report who have ever received (provide example and reasoning) 🙏

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Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay @mdtremblay.bsky.social · 4d

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET.
In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volume 32, Issue 4 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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Anton Tantner @adresscomptoir.bsky.social · 6d

Wer mit der S1 ins Marchfeld fährt, kommt an den ausgelagerten Büchern der UB Wien vorbei.

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 11d

Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.

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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · Sep 9

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop series is kicking off soon. You can sign up until this Sunday, the 14th of September.

Aimed at both non-native and native speakers writing about the history of economic thought and looking to improve their prose. Run by Paul Dudenhefer longtime editor at HOPE.

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop: Fourth Meeting

The fourth meeting of the 6th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "Writing for an Academ...

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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · Aug 6

My review of Verena Halsmeyer's unique book-length history of the Solow growth-model is online. It is a great look at modelling in economics, the particular MIT-style of modeling, as well as a great case-study of how academic and policy prestige come about.

Review of Verena Halsmayer’s Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact, 2024, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.279 | Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics ...

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The Stone Centre at UCL @stoneeconucl.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎉 Join us for a free online event.
📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT.
With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social
Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social
Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought:
A Panel Conversation, featuring Branko Milanovic and David Lay Williams
Tuesday November 4th 5pm GMT

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · Aug 27

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni

by Jochen Schmon

www.jhiblog.org

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mit tollen Beiträgen, u.a. von @gesinekrueger.bsky.social und Michaela Oberhofer, Madlen Kobi und Adam Przywara, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und Niklaus Remund und von mir und @mrtzg.bsky.social.

1/2024-2025: Sozial-/Kulturanthropologie und Zeitgeschichte | Zeithistorische Forschungen

zeithistorische-forschungen.de

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Florian Wenninger @fwenninger.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ist im BMI und/oder dem Verfassungsschutz jemand übergeschnappt? Die Gedenkstätte Persmanhof wird gestürmt, weil ein dort stattfindendes antifaschistisches Bildungscamp einen sittenwidrige Umgang mit einer Gedenkstätte darstelle? Bitte was?!
www.partizani.at/novice/press...

Presseaussendung des Društvo/Verein Peršman zum Polizeieinsatz an der Gedenkstätte und im Museum Peršman, 27.07.2025 | ZKP

Presseaussendung des Društvo/Verein Peršman zum Polizeieinsatz an der Gedenkstätte und im Museum Peršman, 27.07.2025

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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist.
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · Jun 6

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:

"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Means of Prediction

An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · May 12

Word is spreading about our amazing Central European History Convention in Vienna July 17-19, with 55 panels, keynotes by Peter Haslinger + Tara Zahra, roundtables/ reception in honor of Pieter Judson, research lab, poster presentations, + book stalls! Share widely! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Central European History Convention

Die erste Central European History Convention findet vom 17.-19. Juli an der Universität Wien statt. Sie wird organisiert vom Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung in Kooperation mit amerik...

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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · Jun 2

What do economists do in central banks? How did they come to play such a central role?

We're excited to share the first draft of a Cambridge University Press Elements book project on how economists became key figures in central banking over the twentieth century.

▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

Economists, Economic Knowledge, and

Central Banks

Aurélien Goutsmedt

UCLouvain, ISPOLE; ICHEC Brussels

Francesco Sergi

Université Paris Est Créteil, LIPHA

Juan Acosta

Universidad del Valle

Abstract

What do economists do in central banks? Why do central banks hire economists? This book investigates the evolving role of economists and economic knowledge within central banks, arguing that their current centrality is neither self-evident nor historically inevitable. While the presence and influence of economists in central banks today may seem natural, this book shows that it is the result of a complex, gradual, and uneven historical process shaped by institutional structures, disciplinary transformations, and shifting relationships between science and policy. Drawing on a rich but dispersed body of literature, the book traces how economists progressively gained authority through the establishment of statistics departments, the adoption of macroeconometric models, and the emergence of a shared

cognitive infrastructure between academia and central banks. Rather than focusing on individuals or doctrines, it examines general trends and institutional shifts across a series of national case studies to show how central banks function as boundary organizations, at the intersection of policy and science

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Alex M. Thomas @alexmthomas.bsky.social · Jun 2

A special issue on HET now out in the Review of Development & Change! 🤩

journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/...

Articles on competition, environmental economics, agrarian question & structural change, village studies & Indian economics, Marx's methodological holism, Marx's framework, women in HET.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Apr 30

Grad gemerkt, dass mein Kapitel ‘Patente als Vermögenswerte. Geistiges Eigentum als Subjekt und Objekt des Markts’ erschienen ist. Too many things happening rn...

Vielen Dank an die Herausgeber N Angefeld, J Blumenfeld @cominsitu.bsky.social, T Wesche.

Leseprobe: media.suhrkamp.de/mediadeliver...

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Radical History Review @radhistreview.bsky.social · May 23

New issue published! **Economic Miracles and Their Afterlives** read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · May 22

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact [email protected] or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks for the discussions and for the organisation @shoet.bsky.social

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · May 24

… and reflect on discourses on inequality by the tro tro drivers and film poster makers in Ghana (fascinating research by Gerardo Serra)

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · May 24

Roni Hirsch, @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and organised two sessions at #eshet2025 on knowledge beyond the common places of history of economics: we discussed the Lucas Plan and planning from the floor shop for socially useful products (amazing prez by Verena!)

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Verena Halsmayer @vhalsmayer.bsky.social · May 24

And here's Cléo on the genealogy of intersectional thought 🔥

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · Oct 18

Managing Growth in Miniature

Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Managing Growth in Miniature

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Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social · Apr 1

🎉 I’m incredibly excited that, after so much time, my book Conversations on Rational Choice will be published by CUP. It features 23 interviews with leading rational choice scholars and their critics, each accompanied by in-depth introductions to their work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Conversations on Rational Choice

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Social Science - Conversations on Rational Choice

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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · Apr 9

Käthe-Leichter-Gastprofessur für feministische Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Schwerpunkt "Soziale Ungleichheit. Vermögenstransfer zwischen den Geschlechtern & Generationen"; 75 % Teilbeschäftigung von 15.09.2025 bis 28.02.2026. Bewerbung bis 7.5.25.
genderausschuss.univie.ac.at/kaethe-leich...

Käthe-Leichter-Gastprofessur

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