Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast

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 episode 40, Raphaël Fèvre also discusses the importance of learning how to write.

If you’re interested in economics and planetary boundaries, you should check out episode 26 when we interviewed Herman Daly.

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 beginning of the last chapter:

Problems of Underdevelopment

Monsieur Dupont calls you uncultured
because you cannot tell who was
Victor’s Hugo’s favourite grandson.
Herr Müller has started to scream
because you do not know (exactly)
the day that Bismarck died.
Your friend Mr. Smith
an Englishman or Yankee, I cannot tell,
becomes incensed when you write Shell.
(It seems you leave out an “l”
and, what’s more, you pronounce it chel.)
Okay, and what of it?
When it’s your turn,
make them say cacarajícara
and ask them where is the Aconcagua
and who was Sucré
and just where on this planet
did Martí die.
And please:
tell them to always speak to you in Spanish.
 
Nicolás Guillén
 
 
Trans. by Rahul Sirohi and Sonya Surabhi Gupta

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:

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.

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:

To check out the Indian Society of History of Economic Thought established in 2023, click here.

In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member of a new project on the history of national accounting in what we call the Global South today. Cecilia talks about her thesis on the history of the cost-of-living index in Argentina, a recent co-edited book and our new project.

To check out some of Cecilia’s work, see two of her articles linked below:

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 economic thought: https://l-heure-d-unepauseconomique.fr/

We’re back with a second episode with existing and former members of the Walras Pareto Centre. If you didn’t listen to part I, I recommend listening to part I first.

This time we will hear about what they like and dislike about their work. And about any regrets they may have about their choices or trajectories.

If you want to join an online writing group on Thursdays at 10.15-12.15 CEST, contact Maria Bach via Twitter or email.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Loop of Life – V01 by RAME (RAMEofficial.com) via FreeSound (freesound.org/people/RokZRooM) under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-ND license.

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 capitalism, click here.

In this episode, I share some conversations I had with some existing and old members of the Walras Pareto Centre (CWP) in Lausanne. These are raw conversations from researchers in the history of economics and political science that may help you feel less alone and might just help you figure some things out. Who knows?

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Loop of Life – V01 by RAME (RAMEofficial.com) via FreeSound (freesound.org/people/RokZRooM) under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-ND license.