The YSI HIstory of Economic Thought Working Group invites submissions to the History of (Asian) Economic Thought stream at the YSI Asia Convening in Da Nang, Vietnam, 6-9 May 2019.

Please note: very short deadline: 17th of March

We would be very grateful if you could circulate this call in your networks, especially in Asia.

THE HISTORY OF ASIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT FROM GUAN ZHONG TO A. K. BAGCHI

The economic thought of ancient Chinese scholars has been studied for many years in China. There is even a Chinese scholarly society dedicated to this field of study. In Japan the subject has also been studied to some extent. Some recent volumes in English (Hu 1984, 1988; Wu 1996; Ma and Trautwein 2013; Lin, Peach and Wang 2014) show the vitality and diversity of ancient Chinese thought on economic matters and the presence of many ideas familiar from Western thinkers at earlier moments in Chinese thought.

Yet knowledge of the ideas of Chinese thinkers on economic matters remains extremely sparse outside East-Asia and availability of texts on the history of Chinese economic thought in English remains extremely limited. The same can be said about the economic thought of Indian philosophers since at least the 4th century B.C. Chanakya (Kautilya), although the language barrier here should be much less of a reason, as well as the economic thought of the ancient Persians, Mongols and other Asian nations. Around the world, the canon of the history of economic thought taught to economics (and other) students continues to be limited to the ideas of scholars from Europe and European settler colonies.

The YSI History of Economic Thought Working Group invites early-career researchers based in Asia to submit contributions to this internationally severely understudied subject area:

• The economic thought of Asian scholars from all epochs, from ancient philosophers, political thinkers and mystics to modern economists

• The economic ideas contained in Asian philosophical, religious and political doctrines like Confusianism, Taoism, Legalism, Hinduism, Jainism, Vedism, Buddism, Shintoism, Ghandian Socialism, Maoism

• Studies on the historic exchange of economic ideas between Asia and other regions, the cross-influence between different Asian thinkers or between Asian and non-Asian scholars on economic matters and comparative studies of their theories

Other contributions in the history of economic thought from young scholars based in Asia shall also be considered.

Please submit abstracts here.*

Travel support is available for young scholars travelling from within Asia.

Deadline: 17th of March.

* A profile needs to be created on the YSD first in order to submit. If not already registered, on the promt that opens with the link, please click "Become a member of YSI" and create a profile. If not automatically directed to the submission page after that, please use the link again and log into your newly created profile on prompt.

Refs.:

Hu, Jichuang. 1984. Chinese Economic Thought before the Seventeenth Century. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.
---------------. 1988. A Concise History of Chinese Economic Thought. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.
Lin, Cheng, Terry Peach and Wang Fang (eds). 2014. The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Ma, Ying and Hans-Michael Trautwein (eds). 2013. Thoughts on Economic Development in China. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Wu, Baosan. 1996. History of Economic Thought in the Pre-Qin Period. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.