The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

In case you do not know: The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen will be out in the coming months.

The Recession of 2008 – Do Economists ever agree on Analysis and Prescriptions?

The European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the University of Castilla ­ La Mancha (UCLM) are jointly organizing a Workshop on:

“The Recession of 2008. Do Economists ever agree on Analysis and Prescriptions?

(For further information visit the workshop’s web page)

HEI and Pareto on the application of mathematics to political economy

Issue 1-2009 of HEI – History of Economic Ideas has just been published. Click here to see the table of contents.

Note that Pareto’s 1902 German Encyclopaedia article “Anwendungen der Mathematik auf Nationalökonomie” (here translated as “The application of mathematics to political economy”) can be freely downloaded (until the 1st week of July) directly from the homepage of the journal’s new website.

Assistant Professorship at the University of Porto

The Department of Economics of the University of Porto is recruiting 2 Assistant Professors for the Area of Social Sciences (tenure track), starting September 2009. One of the positions is for Economic History/History of Economic Thought and the other for Sociology/Methodology of Social Sciences.

Modeling the World

Modeling the World: Perspectives form Biology and Economics
28–30 May, 2009, University of Helsinki
Organized byMichael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania) and Uskali Mäki (Academy of Finland) with TINT [Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration], sponsored by the Academy of Finland
Visit the Conference Web Site