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Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/63d. Total Eps: 52

History of Economic Thought, History of Economics, History of Economic Ideas, Philosophy of Economics, Political Economy, Economics

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About degrowth, breaking rules, writing and other things! Episode 42

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 • Duration 01:00:25

Guest: Timothée Parrique (University of Lund)
Host and Producer: Maria Bach (University of Lausanne)

In this episode, Maria Bach interviews Timothée Parrique about his PhD thesis and book on the Political Economy of Degrowth. They also discuss the importance of writing skills, and breaking academic rules and disciplinary boundaries.

Here are Parrique’s favourite books on writing:

In episode 40, Raphaël Fèvre also discusses the importance of learning how to write.

If you’re interested in economics and planetary boundaries, you should check out episode 26 when we interviewed Herman Daly.

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Decolonising Development, Episode 41

Thursday, April 11, 2024 • Duration 53:15

Guests: Rahul A. Sirohi (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati) and Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Jamia Milia Islamia)
Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I talk to professors Sirohi’s and Gupta’s book on development discourses from India and Latin America.

As mentioned in the episode, here is the poem translated at the beginning of the last chapter:

Problems of Underdevelopment

Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured
because you cannot tell who was
Victor’s Hugo’s favourite grandson.
Herr Müller has started to scream
because you do not know (exactly)
the day that Bismarck died.
Your friend Mr. Smith
an Englishman or Yankee, I cannot tell,
becomes incensed when you write Shell.
(It seems you leave out an “l”
and, what’s more, you pronounce it chel.)
Okay, and what of it?
When it’s your turn,
make them say cacarajícara
and ask them where is the Aconcagua
and who was Sucré
and just where on this planet
did Martí die.
And please:
tell them to always speak to you in Spanish.

Nicolás Guillén

Trans. by Rahul Sirohi and Sonya Surabhi Gupta

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The Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), Episode 32

Monday, April 24, 2023 • Duration 44:17

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 check out their publications, as well as other opportunities that the centre has to offer, go here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sounds by Alyonka and Sonically Sound, Retro Funk.

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Episode 31

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 • Duration 29:24

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.

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Exit Capitalism! A New Board Game, Episode 30

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 • Duration 28:25

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 played the game at the Walras-Pareto Centre at the University of Lausanne.

The other games referred to in the podcast are KAPITAL and Class Struggle. To check out the history of Monopoly referred to at the end, listen here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sounds by Sonically Sound, Retro Funk and Melokocool, .

Inequality: Part II, Episode 29

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 • Duration 54:15

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 on inequality, researchers looking at inequality urge people to look more on the micro level because the trends and causes are not universal across time and space. So in this second part, we look at why and how inequality goes up and down depending on where you look.

All the examples you will hear, in some way, critique and build upon Thomas Piketty’s comparative approach. We will hear from Erik Bengtsson, who studies the trends of inequality in Sweden. To check out Erik’s work, click here. We will also hear from Keith Tribe and his co-editor Pat Hudson talk about their collected work called The Contradictions of Capital in the 21st century in which they build upon the renewed interest in the long run global development of wealth inequality stimulated by the publication of Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century.

To watch the TED talk video on inequality featured at the beginning, go .

Inequality: Part I, Episode 28

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 • Duration 01:01:28

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 and policies. In part two, to be released soon, we look at why and how inequality goes up and down depending on where we look.

Poornima Paidipaty and Pedro Ramos Pinto talk primarily about their special issue on The Measure of Inequality: Social Knowledge in Historical Perspective published in 2020 in the Historical of Political Economy Journal.

To check out Dan Hirschman’s approach to analysing how things are counted called knowledge infrastructures, see this article. He references the book A Vast Machine by Paul Edwards.

To find out more about Christian O. Christiansen’s project on historicising global inequality, check out . To check out his latest book, , click .

Book Panel Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Economic Expertise, Episode 27

Monday, August 30, 2021 • Duration 01:02:40

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, by another Nobel Laureate James Heckman, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. The other panelists offer their reflections on the econometric and economic contributions of Tinbergen, and in particular his role as broker between academia and policy circles, a main argument of the book is that Tinbergen secured a permanent place for economic experts and models in policy circles. They also explore Tinbergen’s socialist convictions, his internationalism and dedication to peace, as well as his and their personal motivations to be an economist.

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A cataclysm sentence for economics, Episode 26

Thursday, May 27, 2021 • Duration 53:51

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 famous and award winning physicist, Richard Feynman, who in the 60s wanted to revamp the physics undergraduate degree to get more researchers into physics. He started his course at Caltech with what he called the cataclysm sentence, which is:

“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?”

We changed it a bit to apply only to economics:

“The one piece of economic knowledge that you would pass on to a future society if ours were to perish in a cataclysm.”

Along with students at the American University of Paris, we interviewed four people, an economic historian, an ecological economist, a feminist political economist and an historian of economics. Here is the list of their cataclysm sentences:

Peter Bent, Department of Economics, Trinity College, Connecticut, USA

Julie Nelson’s (UMass Boston) definition of economics: “The study of the ways societies organize themselves to provide for the survival and flourishing of life.”

James Buchanan and the Soul of Classical Political Economy, Episode 25

Episode 25

Monday, March 15, 2021 • Duration 57:06

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 role in the development of the Virginia School of Political Economy, his academic entrepreneurship and attempts to develop intellectual centres in sometimes hostile academic environments as well the evolution of his research program. Pete Boettke details the way in which Buchanan attempted to create a vibrant intellectual environment at the various universities in which he worked. Alain Marciano, who is working on an intellectual biography of Buchanan, explains the way in which the archives inform his project and how life and work became one for Buchanan.

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