Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is hosted by historians of economic thought Jennifer Jhun, François Allisson, and Çınla Akdere. Each month, the hosts discuss themes related to economics, its history and methodology, and its relevance to contemporary affairs.

Episode Seventy Eight 04/15/2024

Episode Seventy Eight Jennifer, Çınla, and François are joined by Spencer Banzhaf, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Environmental & Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University, to discuss the history of environmental economics and, especially, his new book . /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/30811423

Episode Seventy Seven 03/15/2024

Episode Seventy Seven Çınla and François are joined by Kseniia Lopukh, Associate Professor of Economics at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, to discuss her work on the famous Ukrainian economist, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, as well as the economic history of, and history of economic thought in, Ukraine. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/30382758

Episode Seventy Six 02/15/2024

Episode Seventy Six François, Jennifer, and Çınla chat with George Tavlas about his new book . /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/29958593

Episode Seventy Five 01/15/2024

Episode Seventy Five 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): by Matthieu Renault by Geoffrey M. Hodgson by Kseniia Lopukh /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/29474893

Episode Seventy Four 12/15/2023

Episode Seventy Four François, Jennifer, and Çinla chat with former Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar co-host Scott Scheall about his work on the methodology of the Austrian School of economics and the problem of policymaker ignorance. Scott's new book, , is available for free on his Substack page, , where you can also find his new podcast, . /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/29038743

Episode Seventy Three 11/15/2023

Episode Seventy Three Çinla, François, and Jennifer are joined by Glory M. Liu, assistant director for the Center for Economy and Society and assistant research professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss her new book, . /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/28619198

Episode Seventy Two 10/15/2023

Episode Seventy Two Jennifer and François are joined by Julien Gradoz for one of our occasional episodes focused on the work and lives of early-career scholars in the history of economic thought and economic methodology. Julien is a recently minted PhD from the University of Lille. Topics include his experiences in graduate school, writing his dissertation, career prospects in the field, and Julien's research on the economics of product quality. Here is a link to some of Julien's recent work (may be paywalled): /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/28293086

Episode Seventy One 09/15/2023

Episode Seventy One Çınla, François, and Jennifer chat with Danielle Guizzo, Associate Professor in Economics Education at the University of Bristol. Topics include Professor Guizzo's work deconstructing economic expertise and her recent papers on the economics of Barbara Wootton, best known as a sociologist and criminologist, and on the relationship between public economics and John Rawls, the famous political philosopher. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/28047942

Episode Seventy 07/15/2023

Episode Seventy Jennifer, Çınla, and François interview Carl Wennerlind, Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Topics include Professor Wennerlind's newly-published book, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis, co-authored with Fredrik Jonsson, the history of political economy in early modern Sweden, and A Philosopher's Economist: [David] Hume and the Rise of Capitalism, written with Margaret Schabas, and published in 2021. [NOTE: .] /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/27457545

Episode Sixty Nine 06/15/2023

Episode Sixty Nine François, Jennifer, and Çınla chat with Roni Hirsch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Political Theory at the University of Haifa, about her research on profit, uncertainty, risk, Frank Knight, John Hicks, and other related subjects. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/27148116

Episode Sixty Eight 05/15/2023

Episode Sixty Eight 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). /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/26833581

Episode Sixty Seven 04/15/2023

Episode Sixty Seven 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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/26549307

Episode Sixty Six 03/15/2023

Episode Sixty Six 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): – Brian Smith – Daniel Williams – 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://historyofeconomics.org /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/26225181

Episode Sixty Five 02/15/2023

Episode Sixty Five 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 /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/25925439

Episode Sixty Four 01/15/2023

Episode Sixty Four 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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/25608048

Episode Sixty Three 12/15/2022

Episode Sixty Three 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 . Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/25327578

Episode Sixty Two 11/15/2022

Episode Sixty Two Çınla, Jennifer, and Scott are joined by Ann Mari May, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska, to discuss her new book, Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/25002870

Episode Sixty One 10/15/2022

Episode Sixty One 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 University's Center for the History of Political Economy. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/24693243

Episode Sixty 09/15/2022

Episode Sixty 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 /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/24378117

Episode Fifty Nine 08/15/2022

Episode Fifty Nine 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 /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/24028830

Episode Fifty Eight 07/15/2022

Episode Fifty Eight 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 /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/23743073

Episode Fifty Seven 06/15/2022

Episode Fifty Seven Çınla, Scott, and Jennifer discuss a number of recent additions to the literature in history of economic thought and methodology. If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): John Davis and Theodore Koutsobinas (2021), Review of Behavioral Economics: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp 1-23 Sabiou M. Inoua and Vernon L. Smith (2022), History of Political Economy: Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 37–73 Donal Khosrowi (2022), Journal of Economic Methodology: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 140-152 Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/23418785

Episode Fifty Six 05/15/2022

Episode Fifty Six Scott, Jennifer, and Çınla are joined by Margaret Schabas, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, to discuss her work. Professor Schabas is the author of numerous articles and several books, including The Natural Origins of Economics, published in 2005, and A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism, co-authored with Carl Wennerlind, and published by University of Chicago Press in 2020. These books, especially the latter book on David Hume, constitute the main topics of the discussion. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/23111171

Episode Fifty Five 04/15/2022

Episode Fifty Five Çınla, Scott, and Jennifer speak with Annalisa Rosselli, Senior Professor of History of Economic Thought at Tor Vergata University of Rome and Luiss University of Rome. Discussion topics include Professor Rosselli's work on the significance of speculation for the history of economic thought, Piero Sraffa, John Maynard Keynes, and the economic lessons taught by World War II. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/22799633

Episode Fifty Four 03/15/2022

Episode Fifty Four Jennifer, Çınla, and Scott discuss some of their own recent research, what it takes to develop a successful research project, and offer some advice to graduate students and early-career scholars in the history of economics. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/22439165

Episode Fifty Three 02/15/2022

Episode Fifty Three In this episode, Çınla and Scott discuss their experiences using podcasts as a teaching tool in the classroom and the value of using episodes of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar to teach the history of economics. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/22126970

Episode Fifty Two 01/15/2022

Episode Fifty Two In this episode, Çınla, Scott, and Jennifer interview Judith Favereau, Associate Professor of economics at Université Lumière Lyon 2, about her interesting work on the methodological aspects of field experiments in economics. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/21779348

Episode Fifty One 12/14/2021

Episode Fifty One Jenn, Çınla, and Scott discuss a number of recent additions to the literature in history of economic thought and methodology. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/21488336

Episode Fifty 11/15/2021

Episode Fifty In our 50th (!) episode, we interview our soon-to-be-former co-host Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak about his many and varied research interests. Topics include Carlos's work on early modern political economy, British trade in the 1620s, G.D.H. Cole's work on economic planning during the interwar period, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's work on economic development, and the influence of the "Vanderbilt Boys" on academic economics in Brazil. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/21170642

Episode Forty Nine 10/15/2021

Episode Forty Nine In this month's episode, Çınla, Scott, Jennifer, and Carlos are joined by Antoine Missemer and Marco Paulo Franco to discuss their work on ecological economics and their forthcoming co-authored book on the history of the field. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/20815418

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast

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