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 Eighty Nine 04/15/2025

Episode Eighty Nine Çınla, François, and Jennifer are joined by Alexander Linsbichler, Senior Postdoc with the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and Lecturer of Philosophy and Economics at the University of Vienna, to discuss his work on rational reconstruction as a philosophical method, Austrian Economics, and the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivism. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/36137345

Episode Eighty Eight 03/15/2025

Episode Eighty Eight Jennifer, Çınla, and François talk with André Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of the History of Economic Thought in the Laboratoire PHARE at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, regarding his work on David Hume, the history of ideas about usury, and economic historiography. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/35704740

Episode Eighty Seven 02/15/2025

Episode Eighty Seven The co-hosts are joined by Professor Sandra Peart to discuss her many and varied contributions to the history of economic thought. Professor Peart is Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President of the Jepson Scholars Foundation at the University of Richmond. She is also the most recently named Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, which the Society confers on those who have contributed a lifetime of study to the history of economics. Topics include Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, James Buchanan, and, of course, her esteemed co-author, David Levy. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/35287630

Episode Eighty Six 01/15/2025

Episode Eighty Six Jennifer, François, and Çınla talk with Professor Kayoko Misaki, Professor of Economics at Shiga University in Hikone, Japan, about her recent book, Léon Walras’s Economic Thought: The General Equilibrium Theory in Historical Perspective. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/34853425

Episode Eighty Five 12/15/2024

Episode Eighty 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): Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini & John B. Davis Nicola Giocoli Daniel Kuehn /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/34443585

Episode Eighty Four 11/15/2024

Episode Eighty Four In another of our occasional early-career scholars episodes, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Hannah Glasson and Dominic Walker, both currently fellows at Duke University's Center for the History of Political Economy, about their interests in the history of economic thought, experiences in graduate school, the academic job market, and their various research projects. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/33935842

Episode Eighty Three 10/15/2024

Episode Eighty Three In this month's episode of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar, François, Çınla, and Jennifer sit down with Marcel Boumans, Past President of the History of Economics Society, and Professor of History of Economics and Head of Section of Applied Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics. Topics include Professor Boumans' work on the historiography of mathematical economics and the meaning of art for the history of economics. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/33449012

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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/33048782

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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/32123022

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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/31752272

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. /episode/index/show/hetpodcast/id/31298582

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

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

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