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SHoET @shoet.bsky.social · 2d

ESHET HES 2026
Important notice: change of dates

Please note that the joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society will take place from 26 to 29 May 2026 (rather than the originally announced date of 3–6 June).

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · 2d

The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social

For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Assistant Professor in Economic History

Assistant Professor in Economic History, , <p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="normaltextrun"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and tru...

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 4d

Corruption is the most important story in the world.

Jagdish Bhagwati and Anne Krueger should share the Nobel Prize.

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 1d

they could even have a Barro-Blanchard-Kiyotaki on the analysis of debt (or more largely macro stabilization tools) if they wanna have fun

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 4d

How to model simultaneous events? If Barro wins, surely Galli does too.

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Justin Lahart @jdlahart.bsky.social · 4d

My guess is that this year will be the first time one of the winners is married to a previous nobel winner

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

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Who should get the econ Nobel this year & why?

Who will get it this year and why?

What's the consequences of having an econ prize?

Is the econ Nobel prize (and scientific prizes more generally) doing more good or bad to the profession? To science at large? And to society?

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 1d

J'avais oublié cet historique de prévision exceptionnel!

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 4d

And for question 3:

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 4d

Explanation for 1 and 2. Here is my nobel prediction for 2023. After this perfect shot I must stay on course.

Also Dixit deserves it, everyone he worked with ended up getting it. And free trade this year would be cool.

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Alexandre delaigue @adelaigue.bsky.social · 4d

1- Avinash Dixit
2- Avinash Dixit and Jagdish bjagwati
3- less work. Nothing to aim at afterwards.
4- bad: perpetuates the myth of the lonely Genius. Makes a lot of people who miss it unhappy.
4-good: it promotes science, who talks about real science the rest of the year? It motivates young people

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

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Who should get the econ Nobel this year & why?

Who will get it this year and why?

What's the consequences of having an econ prize?

Is the econ Nobel prize (and scientific prizes more generally) doing more good or bad to the profession? To science at large? And to society?

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

Athey?

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 4d

I stay with Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes.

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me

Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

#econsky

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

2/2

Who should get the econ Nobel this year & why?

Who will get it this year and why?

What's the consequences of having an econ prize?

Is the econ Nobel prize (and scientific prizes more generally) doing more good or bad to the profession? To science at large? And to society?

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me

Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

[ADVICE NEEDED] For recruitment committee members around #econsky ?

EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs.

How do you cope with this?

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)

Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

Nice one!

Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 4d

This week's post tells the story of Joseph D. Lohman who could not defend his dissertation because of death threats from the gang he had studied.

Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...

Joseph D. Lohman, still alive in 1959, but without a Ph.D

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

Beth Berman's interview should be read alongside the historical work by Antoinette Baujard on how economists have mostly endorsed, sometimes resisted, utilitarianism, welfarism and consequentialism as a basis for decision making

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

3/3 I also greatly benefited from his article on the early history of the NBER in the 1920s (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)

Que la terre lui soit légère

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

2/3 His article with Mary Morgan tracing the transformation of economics from "interwar pluralism" to postwar "neoclassicism" (www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary... [open access]) has been pivotal to my doctoral work.

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 4d

1/n Last week, the History of Economics community received the sad news that Malcom Rutherford has passed (see Margaret Schabas's announcement below)

A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 11d

I will be writing about my research on Chicago once a week at this new Substack: Seeing like Chicago

Do subscribe, for a weekly note!

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Seeing like Chicago | Erwin Dekker | Substack

Observations about Chicago economics, sociology, literature and more by Erwin Dekker. Click to read Seeing like Chicago, by Erwin Dekker, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 17d

envoyez moi un email. J'ai, non pas un "vrai" article, mais une version rédigée de la présentation si ça vous intéresse!