The web site of the Tenth annual ESHET conference in Porto (Portugal), 28-30 April 2006 is
now available at
  
http://www.eshet06.org  
  
   
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 the Young Scholars Seminar that will be held during the Conference.    
  
The Society will take care of their board, accommodation and    
  
registration fees for the whole conference and of their travel    
  
expenses up to 200 euros. 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 may be found on the Conference    
  
website   
  
   
  
Web site: http://www.eshet06.org  
  
   
  
Organizers: Antonio Almodovar, Maria de Fatima Brandao, 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 )  
  
  
Antonio Almodovar