Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSmith 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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Episodes
Episode Seventy Seven
March 15, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBÇınla 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 Seventy Six
February 15, 2024 07:00 - 57 minutes - 48.7 MBFrançois, Jennifer, and Çınla chat with George Tavlas about his new book The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960.
Episode Seventy Five
January 15, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBÇınla, 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): Macroeconomics under pressure: the feedback effects of economic expertise by Matthieu Renault Thorstein Veblen and Socialism by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Ukrainian Financial Reforms in 1917-1922 by Kseniia Lopukh
Episode Seventy Four
December 15, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBFrançois, 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, Dialogues concerning Natural Politics, is available for free on his Substack page, The Problem of Policymaker Ignorance, where you can also find his new podcast, The Week in Policymaker Ignorance.
Episode Seventy Three
November 15, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBÇinla, 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, Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
Episode Seventy Two
October 15, 2023 06:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBJennifer 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 paywalle...
Episode Seventy One
September 15, 2023 19:20 - 49 minutes - 51.8 MBÇınla, 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 Seventy
July 15, 2023 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51 MBJennifer, 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: Professor Schabas a...
Episode Sixty Nine
June 15, 2023 06:00 - 57 minutes - 50.9 MBFrançois, 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 Sixty Eight
May 15, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBÇınla, 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 Sixty Seven
April 15, 2023 06:00 - 42 minutes - 38.3 MBJennifer, 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 Sixty Six
March 15, 2023 06:00 - 47 minutes - 47.4 MBÇınla, 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): Hobbes and the political economy of population – Brian Smith Motivated ignorance, rationality, and democratic politics – Daniel Williams Beyond the Sonderweg: defining political economy in 19th-century Germany – Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi and Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida ...
Episode Sixty Five
February 15, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 50.4 MBÇınla, 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 Sixty Four
January 15, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MBOur 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 Sixty Three
December 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBJennifer, 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 Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Societ...
Episode Sixty Two
November 15, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 31.9 MBÇınla, 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 Sixty One
October 15, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutes - 58.9 MBJennifer, 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 Ph...
Episode Sixty
September 15, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 48.1 MBÇınla, 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 H...
Episode Fifty Nine
August 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 minute - 2.46 MBWe'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 Fifty Eight
July 15, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 34.6 MBIn 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 Fifty Seven
June 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBÇınla, 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): Counterfactual Thinking and Attribute Substitution in Economic Behavior John Davis and Theodore Koutsobinas (2021), Review of Behavioral Economics: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp 1-23 Neoclassical Supply and Demand, Experiments, and th...
Episode Fifty Six
May 15, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes - 53.8 MBScott, 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 ...
Episode Fifty Five
April 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBÇınla, 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: http://historyofeconom...
Episode Fifty Four
March 15, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBJennifer, 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: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Fifty Three
February 15, 2022 07:00 - 35 minutes - 40.2 MBIn 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: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Fifty Two
January 15, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 55.1 MBIn 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. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Fifty One
December 14, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBJenn, Çınla, and Scott 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): Searching for a Tide Table for Business: Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting Laetitia Lenel History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174 https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstrac...
Episode Fifty
November 15, 2021 18:49 - 1 hour - 104 MBIn 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. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from ...
Episode Forty Nine
October 15, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes - 53 MBIn 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. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Forty Eight
September 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBCarlos, Scott, and Jenn are joined by Çınla Akdere, Assistant Professor of Economics at Middle East Technical University in Ankara (and soon-to-be co-host of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar). Topics discussed include the relationship between economics and literature, the use of literature as a tool for teaching economics, and the economic significance of various of the works of Charles Dickens and Stephen King. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Econo...
Episode Forty Seven
August 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 minute - 2.33 MBJenn, Carlos, and Scott are taking off the month of August, but will return with a new episode and some exciting news in September! Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Forty Six
July 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBJenn and Scott are joined by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Research Associate at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, to discuss several of her recent research projects. Topics include economists and econometricians as expert witnesses in American court cases, Milton Friedman's controversial paper "Capitalism and the Jews," Tim Leonard's book Illiberal Reformers, and the history of CSWEP, the American Economic Association’s Committee on the St...
Episode Forty Five
June 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 83 MBScott, Carlos, and Jenn are joined by Michele Alacevich of the University of Bologna to discuss his new book, Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/albert-o-hirschman/9780231199827 Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Forty Four
May 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBJennifer, Scott, and Carlos are joined by Manuela Mosca, Professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Salento in Italy. The conversation is focused on Professor Mosca's work on the role that concepts of power have played in economics, especially her book, Monopoly Power and Competition: The Italian Marginalist Perspective, which won the 2019 Jospeh J. Spengler Book Prize, awarded by the History of Economics Society. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant fr...
Episode Forty Three
April 15, 2021 16:19 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBSarvy, Carlos, Jenn, and Scott, are joined by James Ashley Morrison, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. The conversation is focused on Professor Morrison's forthcoming book on the history of the gold standard. Topics include the roles that J. M. Keynes and Winston Churchill played in Britain's return to the gold standard in 1925, the political-economic significance of the gold standard, the relationship between the disciplines ...
Episode Forty Two
March 15, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBIn this episode, Carlos, Scott, and Jenn are joined by Professor Steven Medema, Research Professor of Economics at Duke University and Associate Director of Duke's Center for the History of Political Economy. Topics include the history and meaning of the Coase Theorem, Professor Medema's recent book, The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics, and the question of progress in the field of the history of economic thought. Smith and Marx W...
Episode Forty One
February 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBJennifer, Carlos, Sarvy, and Scott are joined by three early-career scholars to discuss how the pandemic has affected their teaching and research, their conference experiences and their career prospects. Marina Uzunova is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Free University of Amsterdam. David Coker is a PhD candidate in economics at George Mason University. Dorian Jullien is a professor of economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is suppor...
Episode Forty
January 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 74 MBSarvy, Scott, and new co-host Jennifer Jhun interview Professor Tom Stapleford about his past work on historical epistemology, his more recent work on the engineer and statistician (and co-founder of the National Bureau of Economic Research) Malcolm Rorty, and about his current book project, which considers how to craft government statistics that conform to democratic principles. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyof...
Episode Thirty Nine
December 15, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBSarvy, Carlos, Gerardo, and Scott discuss several 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): ADDRESSING THE AUDIENCE: PAUL SAMUELSON, RADICAL ECONOMICS, AND TEXTBOOK MAKING, 1967–1973 YANN GIRAUD Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 42, Issue 2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the...
Episode Thirty Eight
November 15, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 22.4 MBCarlos, Sarvy, and Gerardo speak with Ryan Walter, Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Topics include Professor Walter's work on the meaning and significance of classical economics and political economy, the historiography of intellectual history, and his own experience as a podcaster. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Thirty Seven
October 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBSarvy, Scott, and Carlos interview Jeff Biddle, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University and Past President of the History of Economics Society. Topics include the relationship between Biddle's historical work and his work as a labor economist, the history of agricultural economics, the business cycle work of Wesley Clair Mitchell, and Biddle's forthcoming book on the Cobb-Douglas production regression. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of ...
Episode Thirty Six
September 15, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 45.9 MBIn this episode, Carlos, Sarvy, and Gerardo interview Fabian Muniesa, Director of Research at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), a research center of L'École des Mines de Paris. Discussion topics include Muniesa's earlier work on performativity and how it evolved, valuation studies, ethnographic approaches to economic sociology and business education, and the work and legacy of David Graeber. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics ...
Episode Thirty Five
August 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBIn this episode, Scott and Gerardo and new co-host, Sarvnaz Lotfi, are joined by Jennifer Jhun, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke University and Faculty Fellow with Duke's Center for the History of Political Economy. The discussion revolves primarily around the uses and abuses of modeling in economics and other fields, such as epidemiology, the usefulness of models for policy purposes, and the significance of ceteris paribus clauses and equilibrium theorizing in economics. Smith an...
Episode Thirty Four
July 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MBIn this episode, our intrepid hosts interview Keith Tribe, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, about his work on a range of topics in economic history and the history of economic thought, including the subjects of his books Land, Labour, and Economic Discourse (1978), Strategies of Economic Order: German Economic Discourse, 1750-1950 (1995), and The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and Economics (2015). Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the H...
Episode Thirty Three
June 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBScott, Gerardo and Carlos review three recent additions to the literature in the history of economic thought and economic methodology: Gerardo discusses a paper on the role of the “economic priest” in the cooperative movement in Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; Scott reviews a paper addressing two contrasting views of ecological rationality in the works of Vernon Smith and Gerd Gigerenzer; and Carlos discusses a paper about the evolving meaning of “consumption” a...
Episode Thirty Two
May 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBCarlos, Scott, and Gerardo are joined by Ivan Moscati, Professor of Economics at Insubria University in Italy, to discuss his book, Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics (2018, Oxford University Press). Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Thirty One
April 15, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBIn this episode, Gerardo, Carlos, and Scott interview Ivan Boldyrev, Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at Radboud University. Topics include Ivan's work on economics and performativity, the history of economics in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, and the significance of Hegelian philosophy and critical theory for economic thought. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org
Episode Thirty
March 15, 2020 15:16 - 55 minutes - 53.8 MBThis unique episode features Gary Mongiovi of St. John's University and David Levy of George Mason University discussing their particular perspectives on the work of James Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, and father of public choice economics and constitutional political economy. The episode begins with an excerpt from Professor Mongiovi's presentation at the first Winter Institute for the History of Economic Thought, held at Arizona State University in January. Mongiov...
Episode Twenty Nine
February 15, 2020 07:00 - 49 minutes - 53.6 MBGerardo, Scott, and Carlos talk with philosopher of economics Catherine Herfeld, Assistant Professor of Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the University of Zurich. Topics include Herfeld's work on the various meanings and uses of the rationality principle in economics, the challenges of straddling the disciplines of economics and philosophy, and the pros and cons of different methods of research in the history of economics. Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported ...
Episode Twenty Eight
January 15, 2020 15:18 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBCo-hosts Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, Gerardo Serra, and Scott Scheall discuss a few recent additions to the literature in the history of economic thought. Topics include the disagreement between Adam Smith and Edmund Burke over the East India Company, the evolving conceptualizations of "poverty" in African languages, and the role that policymakers' epistemic limitations may have played in the current "democratic crisis" in many Western democracies. If you are inclined to read the papers dis...