The 15th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of
Economic Thought (ESHET) will be held on 19-22 May 2011 at Bogazici
University, Istanbul (Conference web site: http://www.eshet2011.org/)
The Conference will be organized by the Department of Economics, and
will be held at the University campus in Istanbul, Turkey.
Important dates:
10 January 2011: Deadline for abstract submissions. To submit a paper,
please go to the conference website: http://www.eshet2011.org/
30th January 2011: Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts
15th April 2011: Deadline for sending full papers
19-22 May 2011: Conference
Call for Papers
ESHET 2011 welcomes papers and proposed sessions in all areas of the
history of economic thought. To submit a proposal please send an
abstract of about 400 words for a paper and/or a proposal of about 600
words for a session (together with the abstracts of the session papers)
no later than the 15th December 2010. There are two further features to
the conference. Firstly, ESHET 2011 will host a special theme titled:
“Competition, Innovation and Rivalry” around which some plenary and
special sessions will be organized. Papers and session proposals
concerning “Competition, Innovation and Rivalry” are welcome and subject
to the same submission procedures as all other papers.
The general motivation behind the special theme is given below:
“Competition, Innovation and Rivalry”: The way in which innovation has
been described, categorised, contextualised and theorised by various
figures as well as schools of thought in the discipline of economics
warrants a thorough investigation from a history of economic thought
perspective. Although it is a truism that some approaches in economics
by focusing on the conditions of allocating resources efficiently within
a static framework failed to consider innovation properly, other
approaches by underscoring the evolutionary characteristics of the
economy, and thus by paying attention to dynamic efficiency, aimed at
shedding light on innovation in an explicit manner. Knowledge and
entrepreneurship standing as natural ingredients of innovation, much
debate has been devoted to the roles played by competition, rivalry and
collaboration among economic actors. A corollary of this debate has been
on the characterisation of different economic syst ems in boosting or
hampering innovation. Despite the lack of consensus about the causes as
well as the consequences of innovation, many different fields in
mainstream economics and many heterodox approaches have generated
invaluable insights. Keeping track of all the different developments is
certainly challenging, but focusing on the key aspects as of how the
history of economic thought may further investigate the topic is
feasible and thus constitutes the subject matter of the 2011 Conference.
We are interested in papers that expose the history of economic ideas
concerning innovation, competition and rivalry as well as papers that
provide a historical or methodological perspective concerning
methodological, ideological and political debates which evolved around
these concepts.
Keynote speakers:
* Professor Stavros Ioannides
* 2nd Keynote speaker: TBA
Reach-out Sessions: The second feature of this conference is that we
would like to encourage the organisation of sessions in which historians
of economics meet economic theorists, economic historians, sociologists,
historians of science, political scientists and scholars from other
areas of the social sciences. Ideally we would like the organisers of
such sessions to enlist the people from the other disciplines but we
would also be happy to work with specific proposals even if there are no
specific names attached. *
Conference web site: http://www.eshet2011.org/
ESHET Young Scholars Seminar
ESHET invites young scholars (i.e. those who are working on or have just
completed a PhD, regardless of their age) to submit their work to the
Young Scholars Seminar to be held on the occasion of the ESHET
Conference. Six submissions will be selected: ESHET will cover board,
accommodation and registration fees plus travel expenses up to €300. The
authors of the selected papers will have 30 minutes each to present the
paper and a senior scholar, appointed by the ESHET Council, will discuss
it. Papers may be on any topic relevant to the history of economics, and
are not restricted to the conference theme. ESHET encourages young
scholars to participate in the conference. A one-year ESHET membership
is offered to all young scholars who submit a paper. Candidates should
e-mail a paper no longer than 9000 words to Professors Manuela Mosca and
Annie Cot ( [log in to unmask] and ;
[log in to unmask]), by February 20, 2011. The results of the
selection process will be communicated to the candidates by 25 March
2011. Papers that have not been selected will be considered for
presentation at other conference sessions.
Important dates:
10 January 2011: Deadline for abstract submissions. To submit a paper,
please go to the conference website: http://www.eshet2011.org/
30th January 2011: Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts
15th April 2011: Deadline for sending full papers
19-22 May 2011: Conference
ESHET 2011 Conference *Scientific Committee: Fikret Adaman, Ragip Ege,
Harald Hagemann, Amos Witztum
Local Organizers:Fikret Adaman, N. Emrah Aydinonat, Cem Behar, Ragip
Ege, Sevket Pamuk
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Professor Amos Witztum
Economics Subject Group
London Metropolitan Business School
London Metropolitan University
84 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SQ
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