Tenth annual ESHET conference in Porto (Portugal), 28-30 April 2006.
Call for papers
The theme of the Conference is "The Popularisation of Economic
Ideas". The aim of this theme is to bring together a number of
contributors to discuss the development and dissemination of both
Political Economy and Economics through the actions of academic
writers and those who spread and popularised their ideas. This took
place through the work of leading academic economists and professors
of economics who produced manuals and textbooks, as well as through
the contributions of non-specialist writers from the worlds of
journalism, fiction and other professions. Although not necessarily
innovative in what concerns economic analysis, the contributions of
the popularisers were often influential and were sometimes best-
sellers - even on an international basis. These authors and their
works may be therefore considered in a variety of dimensions.
Possible questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to,
the following:
Did economics progress through the processes of popularisation?
Did the work of popularisers always lag behind other types of
economic literature (essays, pamphlets, journal articles) or did some
of them convey path breaking ideas?
How did these forms of economic discourse evolve over time?
What were the aims of the popularisers?
How are we to assess the real importance of popularisation for the
institutionalisation of economics?
Is it possible to identify national characteristics in the
dissemination and teaching of economics?
Selected papers on the Conference theme will be published in a
volume, but proposals for papers or sessions on all other aspects of
the history of economic thought are also welcome.
Submit an abstract of no more than 200 words for a paper, or no more
than 400 words for a session, before 31 December 2005.
ESHET invites four young scholars to present and discuss their work
at theYoung Scholars Seminar that will be held during the Conference.
The Society will take care of their board, accomodation and
registration fees for the whole conference and of their travel
expenses up to 200 �. Each young scholar will have 30 minutes to
present his/her paper and a senior scholar, appointed by the ESHET
Council, will discuss it.
The candidates must E-mail a paper no longer than 9.000 words to the
Chair of the ESHET Council, prof. Cosimo Perrotta
([log in to unmask]), by March 10, 2006. The results of
the selection process will be communicated to the candidates by March
30, 2006.
Proposals may be submitted by e-mail to:
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Or by post to:
ESHET 2006
Faculdade de Economia do Porto
Rua Roberto Frias
4200-464 Porto
Portugal
Or by fax to: ESHET 2006 at +351 22 5505050
Information about the Conference will be posted on the Conference
website (details will follow)
Web site
Organizers: Ant�nio Almodovar, Maria de F�tima Brand�o, Pedro
Teixeira, Annalisa Rosselli
The flyer can be downloaded from the eshet web site http://
www.eshet.net, where further announcements will be posted (direct
link to the flyer:
http://www.eshet.net/hetevents/2006-04-28_porto_call4papers.pdf )
Daniele Besomi
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