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

Jennifer, 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

In 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

In 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

Jenn, 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-abstract/53/S1/139/175168/Searching-for-a-Tide-Table-for-BusinessInterwar

Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and policy change: An exploration of impact, location, and temporality of policy advice

Ishani Mukherjee and Sarah Geist

Administration and Society, 52(10), 1538-1561

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095399720918315

Knowledge, behaviour, and policy: questioning the epistemic presuppositions of applying behavioural science in public policymaking

Magdalena Małecka

Synthese, Volume 199, 5311–5338

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03026-6

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org

In 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 the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org

In 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

Carlos, 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 Economics Society:

http://historyofeconomics.org

Jenn, 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

Jenn 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 Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Links to papers discussed in this episode:

"How Economists Entered the 'Numbers Game': Measuring Discrimination in the US Courtrooms, 1971-1989":

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought/article/abs/how-economists-entered-the-numbers-game-measuring-discrimination-in-the-us-courtrooms-19711989/313D29D444F656B990B151829E32719F

"'There Is Nothing Wrong about Being Money Grubbing!' Milton Friedman's Provocative "Capitalism and the Jews" in Context, 1972–88":

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/53/2/313/167843/There-Is-Nothing-Wrong-about-Being-Money-Grubbing?redirectedFrom=fulltext

"Race in the History of Economics: The Missing Narratives?": https://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/8158

"'Economics is Not a Men's Field': A History of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession":

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3510857

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society:

http://historyofeconomics.org

Scott, 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