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.

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/

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

Our postdoc Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social gave an invited commentary at this year’s Wittgenstein Lectures at the University of Bayreuth, which were delivered by Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com under the title "Connected Intelligence: How Our Social Ties Generate Knowledge."

"The Condorcet Jury Theorem under Ambiguity" is the first paper I worked on in grad school. Now it is finally out in Ergo, check it out: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article... Special thank you to @lastpositivist.bsky.social and @becklukas.bsky.social for their comments and encouragement.

Our team member Murat Bakeev speaking at the early-career researchers’ workshop at the inaugural #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion conference: “Why the History of Science Matters to Society: The Case of Economics.” #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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

Together w/ @miguelohn.bsky.social, I present the 2nd Foundations of Thermodynamics Workshop! We'll trace equilibrium reasoning from Archimedes, (post-)Newton, classical thermo, early QM, GR, to quantum thermo, bio, & econs. Abstracts: www.eugenechua.com/ftg2026-find... #philsky #philphys #philsci

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

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...

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

Our team member Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social joins this exciting workshop next week!

Ivan Boldyrev@ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thrilled to announce that next week, the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Radboud will host an interdisciplinary workshop on the promises and limitations of market design! We will jointly brainstorm on how market design projects work and why they might fail to work.

We are moving into the beautiful new research building #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion at the end of June, and we are delighted to celebrate this milestone at its inaugural conference! As part of the conference, our team member Murat Bakeev will participate in a workshop for young researchers. -->

Institute of Philosophy LUH@iphilluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder: In June, #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion will open its doors. We are excited to move into our new research building dedicated to the #ScienceOfScience, and want to celebrate with you! For this purpose, we are hosting our Inaugural Conference from June 17-19. #PhilSci #HPS #SocSky #STS

🙏 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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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)

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

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

Our participation in the Joint HES-ESHET conference in Nice continued yesterday with the Round Table on Oral Histories (pictured from left: Murat Bakeev, Catherine Herfeld, Edoardo Peruzzi, Solal Azoulay, Alberto Bartoccini, and Ariane Dupont-Kieffer). #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi presenting "Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory" at the History of Microeconomic Theory session of the 1st Joint HES-ESHET conference in Nice! #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

The 1st Joint HES-ESHET conference has just started! Come to our talks and round tables: eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-... #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

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)

Nicolas Brisset@nbrisset.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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-...

🔥 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

Kicking off the project Modeling in Philosophy at the Uni of Stockholm w @joeroussos.bsky.social, James Nguyen @dellsen.bsky.social & Dunja Šešelja. Stay tuned for research on e.g. #modeltransfer from econ into phil and other exciting topics abt models & progress in phil @modeltransfer.bsky.social

It’s always a blast to write a book review with this guy: @becklukas.bsky.social. This time we read “False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models” by Matthew Watson. You can check out our thought on Watson’s book here: philpapers.org/archive/LUKF...

Back from a nice visit of the University of Bristol to present our paper Model Transfer as Model Construction: A Taxonomy. Sunny weather throughout! And meeting old friends in London!

Check out this paper by @belewollesen.bsky.social!

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Former LSE student Bele Wollesen has a paper coming out in Ergo that I am a big fan of (www.belewollesen.com/uploads/1/4/...).

🔥New chapter: "Model Transfer as a Case of Interdisciplinary Research in Science" by Catherine Herfeld & Edoardo Peruzzi, forthcoming in Ethics of the Sciences: New Normative Foundations for Academic Practice. Read the preprint: philarchive.org/rec/HERMTA-7 #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Catherine Herfeld & Edoardo Peruzzi, Model Transfer as a Case of Interdisciplinary Research in Science - PhilArchive

Scientific research is highly specialized, yet modern science increasingly involves interdisciplinary interactions. One key aspect of this is the transfer of models across domains, raising questions a...

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💥 Check out this podcast produced by @hu-rmz.bsky.social of my talk there in Feb. 2026 on the role of model transfer in awakening sleeping beauties in science (@modeltransfer.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu): blogs.hu-berlin.de/scienceworks...