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.
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Episode Eighty Two
09/15/2024
Episode Eighty Two
Jennifer, François, and Çınla are joined by Laetitia Lenel, Professor of Cultural History of the Economic in the Institute of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, to discuss some of her recent work on the role of narratives in economics.
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Episode Eighty One
07/15/2024
Episode Eighty One
In this month's episode, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Professor Cheryl Misak, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Canadian Royal Society, and Guggenheim Fellow, about , her highly regarded biography of the influential mathematician, philosopher, and economist. Other topics include Professor Misak's work on Charles Sanders Peirce and the pragmatist tradition at the University of Cambridge.
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Episode Eighty
06/15/2024
Episode Eighty
François, Çınla, and Jennifer interview Till Düppe, Professor of Economics at Université du Québec à Montréal, about his work on lived epistemology, Gérard Debreu, Sidney Weintraub, and other topics.
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Episode Seventy Nine
05/15/2024
Episode Seventy Nine
Çınla and Jenn chat with Helen McCabe, Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, about John Stuart Mill and his attitude(s) toward socialism. Professor McCabe is author of , published in 2021 by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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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 .
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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.
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Episode Seventy Six
02/15/2024
Episode Seventy Six
François, Jennifer, and Çınla chat with George Tavlas about his new book .
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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
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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, .
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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, .
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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):
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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.
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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: .]
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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:
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