Date : April 15, 2021 at 6 pm

Lien Zoom

Tiago Mata (Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London) will give a talk:

« Writing about New Left Economics: absences, silences and the imaginary - a historiographical critique »

Paris, January 4, 5 and 6, 2022.

Call for Papers

Version française ici.

Over the past four decades, the literature in philosophy and history of economics has sparked a growing interest in the changing boundaries between economics and other disciplines.

Political economy emerged at the end of the 18th century as an autonomous scientific discipline; as other contemporary emerging fields, political economy built its field by drawing clear boundaries with other disciplines, such as demography, political arithmetic, morals, political philosophy, etc. Over the following centuries, these boundaries evolved, notably (1) in response to the emergence of other disciplines in the social sciences - in particular sociology; (2) to adapt the rhetoric of economics to the emergence of new institutional norms regulating the intellectual and academic professions; and (3) as a result of the development of new formal methods, new data constructs, and new data processing techniques.

The purpose of this conference is to invite scholars in economics, history of economics, and philosophy of economics to broaden the scope of research that has developed over the last four decades on the boundaries of economics.

Four main areas of research will be emphasized.

Important contributions have focused on methods and instruments, including quantitative methods, mathematics, modeling and experimental protocols. This conference will offer new perspectives on this first theme, with a particular focus on the changes in methods and instruments that occurred after the 1980s.

Another stream of research has investigated the theme of the changing boundaries of economics in terms of “imperialism” or “interdisciplinarity”. From this perspective, the boundaries of economics establish interfaces of exchanges (of research objects, methods, data, etc.) taking place across different disciplines. Several examples have already been documented, such as the relationship between economics and psychology, economics and law, economics and sociology, economics and biology, economics and physics. The conference will host original case studies illustrating other “exchanges” occurring at the frontiers of economics: between economics and geography, economics and history, economics and management, economics and sustainability sciences, economics and cybernetics…

The boundaries of economics have also been transformed by the implementation of public policies and their evaluation using new quantitative or formal methods - as illustrated by the example of randomized field experiments, imported from medicine. Whether or not these recommendations are followed by practical implementation, they play a central role in the cross-evaluation of the relationships between various disciplines, state intervention and the mechanisms of interaction between the public and academic spheres. The conference will include contributions on case studies of these new interfaces between politics and academia.

Finally, we shall welcome contributions that explore the changing internal boundaries of the economic domain, delineating the contours of its various sub-disciplines. This new field of research has recently been approached through the history of the classification and categorization of fields of research in economics, which have highlighted the emergence of new subfields, based on the implementation of new methods (such as experimental economics), on interest in new objects (such as gender economics) or on the implementation of new practices (for example, forensic economics). The study of these new subfields has the particularity - and interest - of directing the gaze towards smaller units of analysis, thus offering new historiographic approaches to this field of research.

A few dates

The conference will be held in Paris on January 4, 5 and 6, 2022.

Abstracts (from 600 to 800 words) should be sent before May 10, 2021 to Annie.Cot@univ-paris1.fr or Dorian.Jullien@univ-paris1.fr

The Scientific Council's answers will be notified on July 12, 2021

Contributions to the conference should be sent before December 1, 2021

Scientific Council

François Allisson (Université de Lausanne); Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham); Antoinette Baujard (University Jean Monnet, Lyon Saint-Etienne); Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (University of Cambridge); Béatrice Cherrier (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics); François Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke); Annie L. Cot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Muriel Dal-Pont Legrand (Université Côte d'Azur, Nice); John Davis (Marquette University); Judith Favereau (Université Lumière Lyon 2); Jérôme Gautié (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound); Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich); Jérôme Lallement (Université de Paris); Catherine Larrère (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Jean-Sébastien Lenfant (Université de Lille); Harro Maas (Université de Lausanne); Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics).

Date : March 18, 2021 at 6 pm

Lien Zoom

Christophe Salvat (Centre Gilles Gaston Granger, Université Aix-Marseille) will give a talk:

« Utilitarisme et évaluation du bien-être »

about his book published at Editions de la Découverte in 2020, L’utilitarisme.

Date : March 4, 2021 at 6 pm

Lien Zoom

Agnès Gramain (BETA, Université de Lorraine) and Laurent Feller (LAMOP, Université Paris 1) will give a talk:

« L’évident et l’invisible : questions de méthodes en économie et en histoire »

about the book they have edited at Editions de la Sorbonne in 2020, L’évident et l’invisible. Archives, sources et données en histoire et en économie.

Date : February 11, 2021 at 6 pm

Lien Zoom

David Cayla (GRANEM, Université d’Angers) will give a talk:

« Le néolibéralisme prisonnier de la pensée économique contemporaine »

about his book, Populisme et néolibéralisme, Paris, De Boeck, 2020

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Save the date : March 4, 2021 at 6 pm.

Agnès Gramain and Laurent Feller will talk of the book « L’évident et l’invisible ». Lien Zoom

Date : December 3, 2020 at 6 pm

Amanar Akhabbar (ESSCA Paris) will give a talk:

« ‘L’économie est-elle une science empirique?’ L’épistémologie économique de Wassily Leontief »

about his book published at ENS Editions in 2029, Wassily Leontief et la science économique.

Date : November 19, 2020 at 6 pm

Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) will give a talk:

« Elinor Ostrom on Working Together (and Apart) »

Date : November 12, 2020 at 6 pm

Olivier Martin (Centre de Recherche sur les Liens Sociaux, Université de Paris) will give a talk:

« Les statistiques et au-delà : une sociologie de tous les chiffres est-elle possible ? »

about his book published at Armand Colin in 2020, L’empire des chiffres.

Date : 30 january 2020 at 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Marco Guidi (Université de Pise) will give a talk:

« Pour une histoire institutionnelle de la science économique »

Date : 28 November 2019 at 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Pierre Dockès (TRIANGLE - Université Lyon II) will give a talk:

« Can the capitalism survive? Eschatological come back or systemic breakdown? »

about his recent book : Le capitalisme et ses rythmes (Garnier, 2019)

Save the date : Tuesday 10 December 2019 (exceptionnaly) at 18:00

Uskali Mäki will give a talk.

12 December 2019 at 18:00

Robert Boyer will give a talk.

Date : 14 November 2019 at 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

**Andrej SVORENČIK ** (University of Mannheim) will give a talk:

Driving Forces Behind the Rise of Experimental Economics

Date : 17 october 2019 at 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Jacques MISTRAL (IFRI, Brookings Institution) will give a talk:

Analyse économique et philosophie politique, histoires entrecroisées (Economic analysis and political philosophy, cross histories)

Following his last book : “Science de la richesse” (Science of Wealth)

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Save the date : 14 november 2019 at 18:00

Andrej Svorenčík will give a talk

Date : 26 september 2019 at 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Nicolas JACQUEMET (Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne, PSE) will talk about is last book on the methodology of experimental economics

Experimental economics: method and applications

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Save the date : 17 october 2019 at 18:00

Jacques Mistral will give a talk:

on his last book “Science de la richesse” (Science of Wealth)

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Save the date : 14 november 2019 at 18:00

Andrej Svorenčík will give a talk

• Date : 18 avril 2019 at 18:00

• Lieu : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Franck Varenne (IHPST, Université de Rouen) will talk about (in French):

Une épistémologie des modèles

• Date : 28 March 2019 at 18:00

• Lieu : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Bernard Waliser (EHESS, PSE) will talk about (in French):

Les principes du raisonnement analogique. Une application aux analogies entre biologie et économie

• Date : 14 March 2019 at 18:00
• Lieu : Maison des Sciences Économiques, room on the 6th floor

Eric Monnet (Banque de France, PSE) will talk about (in French):

Expérience et causalité en histoire économique. Quels rapports à la théorie et à la temporalité ?

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Save the date : 21 march 2018 at 18:00

Nicolas Jacquemet will give the talk.

• Date : 14 Février 2019 à 18:00
• Lieu : Maison des Sciences Économiques, salle 6

Marcel Boumans (Université d’Utrecht) will talk about :

Vision and Visualisation in Economics

• Date : 31 January 2019 at 18:00
• Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, 6th floor

François Allisson will talk about:

“Le chat et la souris”: Ecrire l’économie en Russie impériale: Sieber et la censure russe (1869-1888)

• Date : 17 January 2019 at 18:00
• Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, 6th floor

Stephen J. Meardon will talk about:

“Reading Henry George’s Protection or Free Trade in the Age of Trump”

• Date : 13 Decembre 2018 à 18:00
• Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, salle S17

Manon GARCIA (Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago) will talk about:

Qu’est ce que l’épistémologie féministe?

Date : 22 novembre 2018 à 18:00

Venue : Maison des Sciences Économiques, salle S17

Philippe MONGIN (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, HEC) will talk about:

Rethinking “nudges”

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Save the date : 13 december 2018 à 18:00

Manon GARCIA will give a talk:

“What is a feminist epistemology?”, about her recent book (in French) On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient (Climats, 2018)