Guests: Johan Östling, LUCK’s director, the two deputy directors Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad, as well as a PhD student at the centre, Evelina Kallträsk. Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) From left to right: Anna Nilsson Hammar, Johan Östling, Evelina Kallträsk and David Larsson Heidenblad. In this episode, I spoke to several members of the History of Knowledge Centre at the University of Lund, or LUCK for short. We discuss what is the history of knowledge and how its approaches might be useful for historians of economics. To che ..read more

Guest: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna) Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) In this episode, I invited Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche to talk about her new book project on the history of discrimination in economics, partly based on her PhD thesis. If you’re interested in her work, check out her website here. Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sound by Alyonka ..read more

Guest: François Allisson (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) In this episode, I invited François Allisson to talk to us about a game he made with some of his students called Sortons du capitalisme ! or Exit Capitalism! in English. Two cards from the game. Translation of titles: Trust Fund Baby (left) and The Theory of the Dress (right). For further explanation in English, listen to the episode. Thanks to Justine Loulergue, Thomas Bouchet, Etienne Furrer and Sina Badiei for agreeing to be recorded when we ..read more

Guests: Erik Bengtsson (Lund University), Pat Hudson (Cardiff University) and Keith Tribe (Tartu University) Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) Erik Bengtsson, an economic historian of Sweden, refers to this cartoon which depicts the parliament in session when an invisible hand writes “General Strike” on the board published in a national newspaper, Söndags Nisse in 1906. Taken from Fredrik Ström’s Arbetets söner: text och bilder ur den svenska arbetarrörelsens saga. Third Edition. Steinsviks bokförlag AB, 1959. As we heard in part one of our series o ..read more

Guests: Poornima Paidipaty (King’s College, London), Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge), Dan Hirschman (Cornell University), Christian O. Christiansen (Åarhus University) and Keith Tribe (Tartu University) Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne) In this two part series on inequality, we will be talking about moments during the history of researching inequality. In this first part, we explore different ways people have thought about inequality and how it is measured, and the possible impacts that this thinking and measurement has on our economies ..read more

Guests: James Heckman, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Philip Hans Franses and Erwin Dekker Hosted by Reinhard Schumacher and Arjo Klamer In this episode we present a book panel on the book Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (CUP, 2021) by our regular host Erwin Dekker. Reinhard Schumacher provides a brief introduction to the panel which is chaired by Arjo Klamer, Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The panel opens with reflections on the book and the legacy of Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize winner in Economics and famous econometrician ..read more

Guests: Peter Bent, François Allisson, Herman Daly and Sara Stevano (see below for more information). Host and Producer: Maria Bach, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil, Lasuanne (former Assistant Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris) Guest hosts: Wilhelm Aminoff, Wyatt DeLong, Farrah Aridou, Jonathan Noulowe II and Paul Harding, students of a history of economics course at the American University of Paris. Inspired by Radiolab’s episode on the cataclysm sentence, this episode explores whether we could find a cataclysm sentence for economics. Radiolab had found out about the fa ..read more

Guests: Alain Marciano and Peter J. Boettke Hosted and produced by Erwin Dekker In this episode, Erwin talks with Alain Marciano and Pete Boettke about The Soul of Classical Political Economy a book they co-edited with archival material from the James Buchanan archives located at George Mason University. James Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in 1986 was an American economist who started as public finance scholar, who established the field of public choice and pioneered the constitutional political economy approach. They discuss the formation of the archives since Buchanan’s death in 2013, his ..read more

Guest: Kapil Raj Host and Producer: Maria Bach Join Maria Bach for an interview with Kapil Raj about his approach in the history of science. Dr. Raj is Professor of the History of Science at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. In particular, they discuss Raj’s book Relocating Modern Science. Links to works and institutions mentioned: 1. The Go Between by L.P. Hartley 2. The Lund Centre for History of Knowledge (LUCK ..read more

Guests: Stefan Kolev and Mark McAdam Hosted and produced by Reinhard Schumacher and Erwin Dekker In this episode, Reinhard and Erwin talk with Stefan Kolev and Mark McAdam about the recent translation of eight classic articles in the tradition of German Socio-Economics including work by Georg Simmel, Joseph Schumpeter, Gustav Schmoller and Ferdinand Tönnies. These articles were picked from the rich archive of Schmollers Jahrbuch (currently Journal of Contextual Economics). They discuss the best way to understand the German tradition of Socio-Economics, the helpfulness of the Historical ..read more