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.

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 systems 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.

Two Keynote speakers agreed to address the theme of the conference. They are:

Professor Richard R. Nelson

Professor Stavros Ioannides

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 (
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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: 15th December 2010: Deadline for abstract submissions. To
submit a paper, please go to the conference website. 30th January 2011:
Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts 15th April 2011: Deadline for
sending full papers 19-22 May 2011

ESHET 2011 Conference *Scientific Committee: Fikret Adaman, Ragýp Ege,
Harald Hagemann, Amos Witztum

Local Organizers:Fikret Adaman, N. Emrah Aydýnonat, Cem Behar, Ragýp Ege,
Þevket Pamuk

Amos Witztum



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