History of Political Economy (HoPE) Seminar

History of Political Economy seminar convened by Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak and Sofia Valeonti. A forum for interdisciplinary scholarship bearing on the multiple historical connections between economics and broader social concerns.

Louise Villeneuve (Goldsmiths University of London & CNRS, CIRED)

October 20, 2025

"William Stanley Jevons and the Psychological Foundations of Consumption"

Álvaro Morcillo Laíz (Central European University) 

November 17, 2025

“Philanthropic Domination: On Why Foundations are Better than Other Donors in Shaping Recipients (and World Politics)”

James A. Morrison (London School of Economics) 

February 2, 2026

“The Influence of Individuals in International Relations”

Maria Bach (Université de Lausanne)

March 23, 2026

“Relocating Development Economics”

Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo)

May 4, 2026

TBD

Liane Hewitt (Princeton University & Sciences Po)

September 17, 2024

"Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of ‘Cartel Capitalism’ in Western Europe, 1918-1957"

Damian Clavel (University of Zurich)

October 22, 2024

"Contracts and Credit: State-Making, Finance, and Resistance in Moskitia during the Scramble for Central America 1824-1842"

Nestor Lovera Nieto (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

November 26, 2024

"Balancing Dual Roles Behind the Reading Room: Economist and Archivist"

Rebecca L.  Spang (Distinguished Professor of History, Indiana University)

March 18, 2025

“Whose Problem was Small Change? Eighteenth-Century Money in Comparative Perspective”

Martin Giraudeau (SciencePo Paris)

April 15, 2025

“Free, or intelligent enterprise? Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours on Monopolies and Human Action”

Marco Paulo Vianna Franco (CY Cergy Paris University) 

October 17, 2023

“Early Ecological Monetary Theories: Gesell and Soddy on Money and Growth”

Madeline Woker (University of Zurich)

January 30, 2024

“A Taxing Empire: Power and Taxation in the French Colonial Empire, 1850s-1950s" 

Jonny Bunning (Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique / EHESS)

February 27, 2024

“Actors’ Categories: Human Depletion, Hollywood, and Economic Taxonomy”

François Allisson (Centre Walras-Pareto, Université de Lausanne)

March 19, 2024

“Tugan-Baranovsky, Ethics, and Economic Theory”

Nicolas Barreyre (EHESS)

April 23, 2024

“U.S. Debt and the Banking System: How the State Regulated Money and Banking Before the Fed”

Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris)

January 26

“A History of Ecological Economic Thought”

Alexia Blin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)

February 22

“When Americans Learned About Cooperation at School: The Case of Wisconsin in the 1930s”

Jean-Baptiste Fleury (HDEA, Sorbonne Université) 

March 22

“Economic Reasoning and Crime Control Policies in the US in the 1960s’ 

Judith Favereau (Triangle, Université Lumière Lyon 2) 

April 26

“The Mortality Paradox: History and Methodology of Poverty Measurement”