A New History of Economic Thought

Syllabus

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11 February: Who is an Economic Thinker?  

Guests: Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Aditya Balasubramanian (The Australian National University)

• Harold James “Neoliberalism and its Interlocutors”, Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics University of Pennsylvania Press, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2020 pp. 484-518
• Aditya Balasubramanian (2020), Contesting ‘Permit-And-Licence Raj’: Economic Conservatism And The Idea Of Democracy in 1950s India, Past & Present  gtaa013
• A. Balasubramanian, (2018), 'Present at the Creation: India, the Global Economy, and the Bretton Woods Conference', Journal of World History, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 65-94 (with Srinath Raghavan). (Link available on Sharepoint)
  
• C. A. Bayly, (2015). The ends of liberalism and the political thought of Nehru's India, Modern Intellectual History 12 (3):605-626
• Robert Darnton, ‘Two paths through the social history of ideas’, in Haydn T. Mason, ed, (1998), The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford.
• Patricia Clavin, (2017), ‘Men and Markets: Global Capital and the International Economy’, in Glenda Sluga and Patricia Clavin, eds, Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp.85–110.
• Lourdes Beneria, (1999), ‘Globalization, Gender and the Davos Man’, Feminist Economics, 5.3:61–83.
• Maxine Berg, (1992), ‘The first women economic historians’, The Economic History Review, 45.2:308–29.
• R.G. Betancourt, & C. O. Espinel, (2018), ‘The Invisible Ones: Women at Cepal (1948–2017)’, in Madden and Dimand, eds, The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, Routledge.
• Victoria Bateman, (2019), Review of Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, Contributions to Political Economy 38 i1, pp.94–97.

18 February: Where is Economic Thinking?

Guests: Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo) and Pierre Eichenberger (University of Lausanne)

• Eric Helleiner (2020), “The Diversity of Economic Nationalism,” New Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2020.1841137
• Pierre Eichenberger (2019). The eternal rebirth of the liberal creed: Alternative temporalities of Swiss neoliberalism, Journal of Modern European History, 17, pp. 390-395
  
• Pierre Eichenberger (2020), “Business and Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century: A Corporatist View, Diplomatica. A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 2, 2020, pp. 48-56.
• Hagen Schulz-Forberg, “Embedding the Social Question into International Order: Economic Thought and the Origins of Neoliberalism in the 1930s”, in Berger, Stefan, & Thomas Fetzer, eds, (2019), Nationalism and the Economy: Explorations into a Neglected Relationship, Central European University Press, Budapest.
• Nan Enstad (2019). The “Sonorous Summons” of the New History of Capitalism, Or, What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Economy? Modern American History, 2(1), 83-95. doi:10.1017/mah.2018.43  

25 February: History of the Anthropocene

Guests: Troy Vettese (Harvard University) and Jamie Martin (Georgetown University)

• Readings in Bibliography

8 March: Workshop Day 1

Ideas and Canons 

Guests: Patricia Owens (University of Oxford), Ann Thomson (EUI)

• Hutchings, K., & Owens, P. (2021). Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution. American Political Science Review, 1-13. doi:10.1017/S0003055420000969
• Patricia Owens, ‘World Economy’ in Owens, Rietzler, Hutchings, Dunstan (eds.) Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 forthcoming)

History of Ideas of Capitalism

Guests: Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College) and Vanessa Ogle (Yale University)

• Readings in Bibliography

9 March: Guest Public Lecture 

Capital, Economic Thought, and Histories of Economic  

with Prof. Emma Rothschild (Harvard University) 

10 March: Workshop Day 3

Decolonising History 

Guests: Alden Young (UCLA), with Maria Dyveke Styve (MWF) and Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)

• Ghassan Moazzin (2020). Investing in the New Republic: Multinational Banks, Political Risk, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911. Business History Review, 94(3), 507-534. doi:10.1017/S0007680520000276
• Ghassan Moazzin (2020). Sino-Foreign Business Networks: Foreign and Chinese banks in the Chinese banking sector, 1890–1911. Modern Asian Studies, 54(3), 970-1004. doi:10.1017/S0026749X18000318
• Alden Young, "The Intellectual Origins of Sudan’s “Decades of Solitude,” 1989–2019." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, vol. 2 no. 1, 2021, p. 196-226. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cap.2021.0007
• Readings in Bibliography

History of Ideas of Development 

Guests: David Engerman (Yale University) and Corinna Unger (EUI)

• Readings in Bibliography

16 March: How do we find Economic Ideas, and what do we do with them?

Guest: Jens Boel (former chief archivist UNESCO) 

• Explore (Links available on SharePoint)
• Stephen Macekura, (2019), ‘Whither growth? International development, social indicators, and the politics of measurement, 1920s–1970s’, Journal of Global History, 14.2:261–79.
• Daniel Speich, (2008), Travelling with the GDP through early development economics’ history, Working Papers on The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? No.33/08, LSE.
• C. Lemercier, (2015) ‘Formal network methods in history: Why and How?’, in G. Fertig, ed., Social Networks, Political Institutions, and Rural Societies, Brepols, Turnhout, 281–310.

Wrap up – What have we learned and where do we take this knowledge?

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Who?

• Berg, Maxine, (1992), ‘The first women economic historians’, The Economic History Review, 45.2:308–29
• Clavin, P., (2013), Securing the World Economy. The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Owens, Patricia, (2018), ‘Women and the history of international thought’, International Studies Quarterly, 62.3:467–81.
• Flandreau, M., ed., (2003), Money Doctors: The Experience of Financial Advising, 1850–2000, Routledge, New York.
• Fourcade, Marion, (2009), Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
• Gourevitch, Peter A., (1989), ‘Keynesian Politics: The Political Sources of Economic Policy Choices’, in Peter A. Hall, The Political Power of Economic Ideas: Keynesianism across Nations, Princeton.
• Graz, Jean-Christophe, (2003), ‘How Powerful are Transnational Élite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum’, New Political Economy, 8.3:321–40.
• Hamilton, E., (2006), ‘“Whose Story is it Anyway?” Narrative Accounts of the Role of Women in Founding and Establishing Family Businesses’, International Small Business Journal, 24.3:253–71.
• Ghassan Moazzin, “Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919).” Enterprise & Society 20, No. 4 (2019), pp.796-808.

Where?

• Berger, Stefan, & Thomas Fetzer, eds, (2019), Nationalism and the Economy: Explorations into a Neglected Relationship, Central European University Press, Budapest.
• Endres, Anthony M., and Grant A. Fleming, eds, (2002]), International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919–1950, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chp.1.
• Helleiner, Eric, (2014), Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods. International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order., Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.
• Helleiner, Eric, and Andreas Pickel, eds, (2005), Economic Nationalism in a Globalizing World, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.
• Herren, Madeleine, (2013), ‘“They already Exist”: Don’t They? Conjuring Global Networks Along the Flow of Money’. In Löhr and Wenzlhuemer, eds, The Nation State and Beyond, Springer, pp.43–62.
• Kott, S., and J. Droux, eds, (2013), Globalizing social rights: The International Labour Organization and beyond, London.
• Patterson, E.M., (1919), ‘Economic Internationalism’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 83:1–15.
• Rodogno, D., B. Struck, and J. Vogel, eds, (2015), Shaping the Transnational Sphere. Experts, Networks and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s., New York, Oxford.
• Rosengarten, M., and C.-L. Holtfrerich, (2002), ‘Economic Policy Positions and Influence of the International Chamber of Commerce’, in H. James (ed.), The Interwar Depression München.
• Slobodian, S., (2018), Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.).
• Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business (37 chapters, Routledge, forthcoming, 2019). Co-edited with Teresa da Silva Lopes and Christina Lubinski.

How?

• Rothschild, E., (2011), Inner Life of Empires, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
• Sewell, W.E., (2010), ‘A Strange Career: The Historical Study of Economic Life’, History and Theory, 49.4:146–66.
• Moyn, S., (2014), ‘Imaginary Intellectual History’, in McMahon, Darrin M., and Samuel Moyn, eds Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History, Oxford University Press, Myrdal, G., (1957), ‘Economic Nationalism and Internationalism’, Australian Outlook, 11.4:3–50. Oxford and New York.

Canons

• Barnett, Vincent, ed., (2015), Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought, Routledge.
• Madden, Kirsten, and Robert W. Dimand, (2018), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, Abingdon (Oxon.).
• Cohen, Benjamin J., (2005), International Political Economy: An Intellectual History, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
• Cooper, F., and R. Packard, (1998), ‘Introduction’, International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Capitalism

• Gibson-Graham, J.K., (1996), The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, and Cambridge (Mass.).
• ‘Interchange: The History of Capitalism’ (2014), Journal of American History, 101.2.
• Marc Flandreau “Border Crossing, Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2019, pp. 1-9
• Chen, Z., (2011), Modern China’s Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century, Stanford University Press, Stanford.
• Lang, M. (2006), Globalization and Its History. The Journal of Modern History, 78(4), 899-931.
• Laurens, S., (2015), Les Courtiers du capitalisme. Milieux d’affaires
• Ogle, V., (2017), ‘Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s’, The American Historical Review, 122.5:1431–458.
• Olsen, Niklas, (2019), The Sovereign Consumer. A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism, Palgrave Macmillan.

Anthropocene

• C. Cassen & Antoine Missemer, 2020. "Structuring Environmental and Development Economics in France: The CIRED Case (1968-1986) [La structuration de l'économie de l'environnement et du développement en France : le cas du CIRED (1968-19," Post-Print halshs-02548876, HAL.
• Malm,Andreas. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the roots of global Warming, Verso, Chp.1
• M. Vianna Franco. Searching for a Scientific Paradigm in Ecological Economics: The History of Ecological Economic Thought, 1880s–1930 Ecological Economics, 2018 (Links available on Sharepoint)
  
• Matthias Schmelzer, The Hegemony of Growth. The OECD and the making of the economic growth paradigm (Cambridge, 2016), chp. 9

Decolonizing

• Alden Young, (2017). Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation (African Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Any chapter/ esp. conclusion.
• Amanda Behm, Christienna Fryar, Emma Hunter, Elisabeth Leake, Su Lin Lewis, Sarah Miller-Davenport, Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice, History Workshop Journal, Volume 89, Spring 2020, Pages 169–191,  (Link availale on Sharepoint)
  
• New International Economic Order, Special Issue of Humanity, (Link available on Sharepoint)
  
• Tariq Omar Ali, “Agrarian Forms of Islam: Mofussil discourses on peasant religion in the Bengal delta during the 1920s,” Modern Asian Studies 51:5 (2017), 1311-1339
• Laurence Coderre, “A Necessary Evil: Conceptualizing the Socialist Commodity under Mao,” Comparative Studies of Society and History 61:1 (2019), 23-49

Development

• Berthelot, Y. (2004), ‘Unity in Diversity of Development: The Regional Commissions’ Experience’. In Berthelot (ed.), Unity and Diversity in Development Idea, Indiana University Press, Indianopolis (IN).
• Engerman, David C., Nils Gilman, Mark H. Haefele, Michael E. Latham, eds, (2003), Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst & Boston.
• Engerman, David, (2018), The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India, Harvard University Press.
• Finnermore, Martha, (1998), ‘Redefining Development at the World Bank’, in F. Cooper and R. Packard,eds, International Development and the Social Sciences, Berkeley, pp.203–27.
• Forclaz, A. Ribi, (2019)‘From Reconstruction to Development: Early Years of the FAO & the Conceptualization of Rural Welfare, 1945–1955’, International History Review, 41.2:351–71.
• Maul, Daniel, (2012), Human Rights, Development and Decolonization: The International Labour Organization, 1940–70, Palgrave and International Labour Office, Basingstoke and New York.
• Pernet, Corinne A., & Amalia Ribi Forclaz, (2019), ‘Revisiting the FAO: International Histories of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development’, The International History Review, 41.2:345–50.
• Rist, Gilbert, (2014 [1997]), The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. Economic Development and Cultural Change., Zed Books, London and New York.
• Unger, Corinna, (2018), International Development: A Postwar History, Bloomsbury, London.