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

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.

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 Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, 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. 

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.  

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 John Stuart Mill, Socialist, published in 2021 by McGill-Queen's University Press. 

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 Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics.

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.

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):

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

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, 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.

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, Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.