Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast

Guest: David Engerman ( Yale University ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( University of Lausanne ) In this episode features David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History at Yale University, and a leading scholar of twentieth-century international and global history. His work has reshaped how we understand the intellectual and political history of development, spannin...

Guests: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson ( University of Chicago ) and Carl Wennerlind ( Barnard College ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( University of Lausanne ) In this episode, Maria Bach talks to authors of the book Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis , Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind. In their book they trace how today’s dominant view—endless...

Guest: Saarang Narayan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali) Host and Producer:  Maria Bach (University of Lausanne) A political poster issued by the Bharatiya Janta Party in recent years, promoting the Swadeshist message as part of their “Ghar Ghar Swadeshi” (Swadeshi in Every Household) campaign. A list of key terms with short explanations discussed in the episode Swad...

Guest: Peter Boettke ( George Mason University ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne ) Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision. In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts&#822...

Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne ) Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors along with lots and lots of conversations on supervision, I offer you a series of episodes on supervision. In the first episode, I explore a series of critical “don’ts” that both PhD students and their supervisors s...

Guests: Erwin Dekker ( George Mason University ), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak ( The American University of Paris ), Pedro G. Duarte ( Insper ), Steven Medema ( Duke University ), Marianne Johnson ( University of Wisconsin Oshkosh ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne ) Based on almost 2 years of interviews with current and former PhD students, supervisors alon...

Guests: Erwin Dekker ( George Mason University ), Charles Rose ( PhD from King’s College London ), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak ( The American University of Paris ), Pedro G. Duarte ( Insper ), Ariane Dupont Kieffer ( Université Paris 1 ), Luca Timponelli ( Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), María Gutiérrez Ruan ( Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), Elizaveta Burina ( Université Paris 1 ), Léa Lakjaa ( Uni...

Guests: Erwin Dekker ( George Mason University ), Charles Rose ( PhD from King’s College London ), Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak ( The American University of Paris ), Pedro G. Duarte ( Insper ), Ariane Dupont Kieffer ( Université Paris 1 ), Luca Timponelli ( Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), Justine Loulergue (PhD from Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), Elizaveta Burina ( Université Paris 1 ) Host and Pro...

Check out this trailer for a miniseries on supervision coming very soon! The voices featured in the trailer are Charles Rose, Pedro Garcia Duarte and Bianca Maria Fontana. Stay tuned for more thoughts, discussions and insightful voices! Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Bright Morning Energy by LolaMoore License: Attribution 4.0

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 e...

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 beg...

Guest: Raphaël Fèvre ( Université de Côte d’Azur ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne ) In this episode, Maria talks to Raphaël Fèvre who published a book with Oxford University Press, pictured above, based on his PhD research. For advice on writing a book, see the following books: From Dissertation to Book Revise: The Scholar-Writer’s Essential Guid...

Guest: Eric Helleiner ( University of Waterloo ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( University of Lausanne ) In this episode, Maria interviews Eric Helleiner to discuss his current research on writing a deeper global history of the field of International Political Economy. We mainly discuss his latest two books pictured above, The Contested World Economy and The Neomercantilists .

Guest: Srishti Yadav ( Azim Premji University, Bengaluru ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne ) In this episode Maria talks to Srishti about her heterodox economics studies, her work on Paradigms in Economics and her book project on the agrarian question in India. Check out the following links to Srishti’s research: Yadav, S. (2022) ‘ Caste, diversif...

Guest: Cecilia Lanata-Briones ( Warwick University ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne ) Bunge, A. E. (1918): «Costo de la vida en la Argentina, de 1910 a 1917». Revista de Economía Argentina 1 (1), pp. 39-63 In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member of a new project on the history of national accounting i...

Guest: Nestor Lovera ( Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne ) In this episode, Maria interviews Nestor Lovera from the Université of Reims Champagne-Ardenne about his thesis and latest projects. For a summary of Nestor’s thesis, click here . Check out Nestor’s new podcast (in French) on the history of econo...

Guests: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ( Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna ), Justine Loulergue (PhD Student, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne , Paris 1 & Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), María Gutiérrez Ruan (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), Tatiana Fauconnet (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ) and Biancamaria Fontana (Emeritus Professor, Centre Walras Pa...

Guests: Maxine Berg (Professor, Warwick University ) and Pat Hudson (Professor, Cardiff University ) Host and Producer: Maria Bach ( Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne ) In this episode, I interview Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson about their recent book on the role of slavery in capitalist development and the British industrial revolution. To check out Eric Williams book on slavery and capit...

Guests: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ( Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna ), Justine Loulergue (PhD Student, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 & Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), María Gutiérrez Ruan (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ), Tatiana Fauconnet (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil ) and Biancamaria Fontana (Emeritus Professor, Centre Walras Par...

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 severa...

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 websi...

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 Th...

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 nationa...

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...

Gu ests: 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 Cul...