New open-access article out in JHET: "The socialist visions of John Stuart Mill and Leon Walras: Expanding forms of socialized property within a market economy" by John Willoughby.

THE SOCIALIST VISIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL AND LÉON WALRAS: EXPANDING FORMS OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WITHIN A MARKET ECONOMY | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core

THE SOCIALIST VISIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL AND LÉON WALRAS: EXPANDING FORMS OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WITHIN A MARKET ECONOMY

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Free link to my new paper on rationality in the work of Ludwig Mises w/ Andre Quintas. We argue that Mises' early work was Weberian in its understanding of rationality, history, and human action, it was only later (early 1930s) that Mises adopted his notorious praxeological view of rational action.

The evolving concept of rationality in the work of Ludwig von Mises

Mises is best known for his development of praxeology and his axiomatic approach to rationality. This article shows that his early work is characterised by a more historical and institutional accou...

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Launching today: The Inner Life of Liberalism, a new podcast from me and @uncanonical.net. The thesis: liberalism doesn't just need better arguments. It needs better practices, the kind that reshape what you notice, feel, and become. Episode 1 is live. 🧵 on the project.

001: Liberalism's Inner Life | The Inner Life of Liberalism

001: Liberalism's Inner Life by The Inner Life of Liberalism on Patreon. Join The Inner Life of Liberalism's community for exclusive content and updates.

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The program for the 1st joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society is now online. I wouldn’t say putting it together was a walk in the park... From May 26 to 29, more than 400 researchers. eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

Starting today, my book Moral Economics is actually available in stores:) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/feli...

hey look, another day, another reason to read about reciprocity and the need to actually *enforce* norms. www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-ne...

Liberal Neutrality and How to Fight For It

Defending liberal political norms doesn’t mean always reaching across the aisle. Sometimes, liberal neutrality means playing hardball.

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My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!

Our Writing Workshop is starting up again, and soon. Sign up before March 13, and get started by March 17. Hosted by Harro Maas and Paul Dudenhefer you get mentorship from a leading researcher and editor in the field of the history of economic thought, all for free. So do sign up!

JHET Online Writing Workshop: First Meeting, 7th Series

The first meeting of the 7th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "The World of Scholarly Publ...

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journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18... I love writing book reviews. They’re still a place where you can debate ideas, something that’s becoming a bit rarer in academia. OEconomia is especially great for this.The editors give us plenty of room to engage fully with the books we review.

Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics. An Interview with...

Julien Gradoz: The idea for this interview arose when I realized there’s virtually no research specifically dedicated to book reviews in the history of economics—or even in economics more broadly. ...

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A good day for #nokings

Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...

A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics

Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...

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Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...

A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics

Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...

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This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...

William I. "Controversy" Thomas

Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short

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This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...

William I. "Controversy" Thomas

Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short

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Neon Liberalism #60: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group in Minneapolis, and he recounts witnessing ICE abductions and confronting ICE agents.

Neon Liberalism #60: Minneapolis Under Siege

Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with hi...

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We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, On Liberty

John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.

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Our December issue is out, with five article, four book reviews, and two letters to the editor. This is the last issue edited by Pedro Duarte and Jiména Hurtado. As incoming editors, we would like to take the opportunity to express a great thanks for the excellent job they have done!

➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social 🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics

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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

New open-access article at JHET by Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Marianne Johnson, which discusses family economics and poverty around the turn of the 20th century: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine

The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

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Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

Economics and gardening metaphors

On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek

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Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

Economics and gardening metaphors

On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek

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