Çınla, François, and Jennifer interview Professor Edmund Phelps, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, about his new memoir, My Journeys in Economic Theory (May 2023, Columbia University Press ..read more

Jennifer, Çınla, and François chat with Alex Thomas, Assistant Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, Karnataka, India about his research and teaching.  ..read more

Çınla, François, and Jennifer discuss a number of recent additions to the literature. If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): Hobbes and the political economy of population – Brian Smith Motivated ignorance, rationality, and democratic politics – Daniel Williams Beyond the Sonderweg: defining political economy in 19th-century Germany – Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi and Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofecono ..read more

Çınla, François, and Jennifer interview Pedro Garcia Duarte, Senior Research Fellow with the Insper Institute of Education and Research in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and co-editor of Journal of the History of Economic Thought, about his work on the history of macroeconomics.  Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more

Our scheduled interview had to be canceled at the last moment, so we took the opportunity to have a short chat with out new co-host, François Allisson, Senior Lecturer at the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more

Jennifer, Scott, and Çınla are joined by Bruce Caldwell, Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy and Research Professor of Economics at Duke University, and Hansjörg Klausinger, Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at The Vienna University of Economics and Business, to discuss their newly-published biography of F. A. Hayek, titled Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more

Jennifer, Çınla, and Scott are joined by four early-career scholars to discuss their research projects, experiences in the field, and career ambitions.  Christina Laskaridis is Lecturer in Economics at the Open University and Fellow at St Edmund Hall University of Oxford. Ana Paula Londe Silva is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Max Ehrenfreund is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Science at Harvard University. Edoardo Peruzzi is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Tuscan Universities (Florence, Pisa and Siena) and Visiting Scholar at Duke ..read more

Çınla, Jenn, and Scott are joined by Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Professor of Economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2 and current President of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE). Discussion topics include the history of feminist economics, the "missionary" work of economist Edwin Walter Kemmerer, and Professor Gomez Betancourt's work with ALAHPE and the History of Economics Diversity Caucus.  Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more

We're taking a break for the month of August to enjoy the remnants of the summer. Talk to you again on September 15th. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more

In this episode, Çınla and Jenn interview Altuğ Yalçıntaş, Professor of Institutional Economics at Ankara University. Discussion topics include Professor Yalçıntaş' work on the history of the Coase Theorem, the need for research ethics in economics, and what it's like to do graduate work under the supervision of certain well-known economists.  Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org ..read more