A new contribution by our postdoc Edoardo Peruzzi has just appeared in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Competition Law: a short entry on "Competition"! In the entry, he discusses the role of competition in contemporary policy and how its meaning has evolved in the history of economics.

The Seventh AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 21-25, 2027. Supplementary travel funding provided. The call for submissions is now open and closes November 15. Details here: www.aip.org/history/earl...

Looking forward to Uljana’s keynote and what looks to be a fantastic conference! Hard choices to be made regarding the parallel sessions.

Uljana Feest@ufeest.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heading to Cambridge today: spspcambridge2026.com/program #spsp #philsci #hps

Murat Bakeev's paper "Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards and Methodological Embedding" has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30452/

I am in absolute shock to read this. Luke was a wonderful colleague when we were postdocs at the MCMP together. He helped me a great deal to navigate the academic world with his kindness and patience. I am sending my condolences to his loved ones.

Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 4w ago

Luke Fenton-Glynn, a philosopher at Monash University, and before that, University College London, has died.

Thanks a lot to Philippe van Basshuysen and his team for the invitation and the great questions!

MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project@modeltransfer.bsky.social · last mo.

Our PI, Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social, presented today at the colloquium of our LUH friends from CELLS @mapsproject.bsky.social, on "Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Economics: The Role of Model Transfer." Thank you for the great questions! #ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

A new blog post about my book Conversations on Rational Choice: cambridgeblog.org/2026/07/conv...

Returning from a visit to Düsseldorf. We had an engaged discussion with PPE students about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and abt our paper on Model Transfer as Model Construction in the Colloquium. Excited about the future of PPE in Germany @modeltransfer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Katja Rost was a fearless and incredibly engaged researcher and colleague; my condolences go to her family and loved ones, her friends, and her colleagues!

Die Professorin der Universität Zürich starb am Samstag im Alter von 50 Jahren nach langer Krankheit. https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/soziologieprofessorin-soziologin-katja-rost-im-alter-von-50-jahren-verstorben

The new issue of EJHET includes great reviews of 📚 on postwar economics in Germany, the USA, and beyond, with a focus on Keynesianism, management, and rational choice www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3... @dnientiedt.bsky.social @dasmith.bsky.social @cherfeld.bsky.social

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volume 33, Issue 3 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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Our editorial intro as new co-editors in chief of JHET is out. We elaborate on our editorial vision, how we think of contributions to HET as engagements in an ongoing conversation, on reaching out to neighboring fields, and on our goal to recognize and deal with challenges AI poses. Link 👇

We will now work and collaborate together with all fields studying, reflecting on and critically discussing science and its relation to society at Leibniz University Hannover. We cannot wait to finally move into our new offices. Thanks to Eva Barlösius and all the people who made this happen!

MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project@modeltransfer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our poster at the Inaugural Conference of the #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion! In this new research building at Leibniz University Hannover, researchers from the humanities and social sciences will conduct joint research on science and higher education. #ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

Here are some photos of @belewollesen.bsky.social presenting at the Market Design Workshop at Radboud University! The title of her presentation was “Manipulability in Collective Decision Mechanisms: What Is Wrong with It and Why Does It Matter?” #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Dr. Malte Doehne and Prof. Dr. Katja Rost examine how favoritism in political appointments can be reduced through institutional design. Using historical data from 18th‑century Basel, the authors show that family ties strongly influenced access to political office under normal conditions. Howev...

«Qualified lotteries can neutralize conflicts of interest in the appointment of individuals to positions of power» by Malte Doehne and Katja Rost

Dr. Malte Doehne and Prof. Dr. Katja Rost examine how favoritism in political appointments can be reduced through institutional design. Using historical data from 18th‑century Basel, the authors show that family ties strongly influenced access to political office under normal conditions. Howev...

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Our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social joins this wonderful event as a lecturer! On June 10, she will give a talk entitled "Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Economics: The Role of Model Transfer." #ModelTransfer #ERCStG #FrontierResearch

DiECO, Insubria University@dieco.uninsubria.it · 2mo ago

The 4th Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics starts today 📍 Villa del Grumello 📅 8–12 June 2026 🔗 phileco4.lakecomoschool.org

Edoardo Peruzzi's paper “Progress in Model-Based Sciences: Reframing the Relationship Between Horizontal and Vertical Progress in Economics,” has been accepted for publication in the Philosophy of Science: PSA 2026 Contributed Paper Proceedings. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29...

Honoured to be part of the 4th Como Summer School in Phil of Econ organized and supported by INEM. Great location, wonderful talks, engaged student discussion, perfect organisation, fun social program! Highly recommended for any graduate student in history, methodology and philosophy of economics.

DiECO, Insubria University@dieco.uninsubria.it · 2mo ago

The 4th Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics starts today 📍 Villa del Grumello 📅 8–12 June 2026 🔗 phileco4.lakecomoschool.org

🙏 The first book review on Conversations in Rational Choice in EJHET is out, written by Camilla Colombo, a moral philosopher and decision theorist at RWTH Aachen. Here it is: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Conversations on rational choice

Published in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:

Amazing conversations on *Conversations on Rational Choice* by Catherine Herfeld at #eshethes2026

And so, the #eshethes2026 has come to a close. A huge thank you to the organizing team in Nice including @nbrisset.bsky.social @mdpl06.bsky.social @ncamilotto.bsky.social @alxndrtrc.bsky.social for making it all possible (Pictured: Conversations on Rational Choice on display during the conference)

On the same day, our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social also took part in a round table on EU funding in HET. The discussion focused on funding schemes offered through @erc.europa.eu and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. In particular, Catherine shared her experience with our #ModelTransfer #ERCStG project.

🔹A presentation by Murat Bakeev in the parallel session "Philosophy and Historiography," where he presented his and Catherine's joint work on integrated history and philosophy of economics. The conference has been incredibly stimulating, and we look forward to the final day tomorrow.

Today, the #eshethes2026 conference featured two highlights for our project: 🔹A symposium on Catherine Herfeld's @cherfeld.bsky.social new book, Conversations on Rational Choice (with Kevin Hoover, Dorian Jullien, Mario Rizzo, and Malte Dold) #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

Article: The First Generation of African American PhDs in Economics: 1921–1943, by Malcolm Rutherford doi.org/10.1017/S105...

It’s finally here 🎉🤯 #historyofeconomics #indianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social

Next week, a sizable fraction of all historians of economics worldwide will convene in Nice for a one-of-a-kind event: for the first time, the European and American associations for the history of econ are organizing a joint conference @shoet.bsky.social www.eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

#philjobs #philsci

Warwick Anderson@wombatscholar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Really looking forward to the first joint ESHET-HES conference in Nice with the model transfer team involved in 6 sessions! 👇

MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project@modeltransfer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our team is coming in full force! 🔹 @cherfeld.bsky.social participates in the Round Table on "Searching for EU Funding in HET" and a Symposium on her recent book Conversations on Rational Choice 🔹Murat Bakeev presents a chapter co-authored with Catherine on Integrated HPS for Economics (1/3)

🔥 Edoardo Peruzzi and I have a new paper coming out in the Synthese Topical Collection 'Transdisciplinary Model and Template Transfer' ed by the late P. Humphreys & Chia-Hua Lin on Translation as a Modification Strategy in Model Transfer. Stay tuned for preprint. Link to collection 👇 #modeltransfer