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

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)

The current financial and economic crisis has been stimulating some very important and interesting debates. On the one hand, there have been several attempts to compare it with previous crisis, especially with the Great Depression of 1929. On the other hand, the current crisis has also stimulated lively debates about the current state of economic analysis and its effectiveness in providing adequate accounts of the crisis.

Hence, the current crisis has not only highlighted the changing nature of our economic reality, but also the usefulness of taking a longer view when approaching economic analysis. The potential contribution of the history of economic ideas seems to be extremely relevant on both accounts.

This Workshop is aimed at analyzing the current financial and economic crisis from a history of economic thought perspective. The papers presented may offer an overview of the crisis or focus on specific issues. They may refer to the global economy or to a single region or country. The may dig on the causes, the consequences or policy recommendations.

The Workshop will take place in the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de Albacete (University of Castilla ­ La Mancha, Spain) on the 21 and 22 January, 2010.

Albacete is a small but well communicated city. It can be reached by train from Alicante (1:15 hours), Valencia (1:30 hours) and Madrid (2 hours).

The seminar has been organized in three parts:

1. Thursday evening (16-18; 18:30-20:30): Presentation of four selected papers.

2. Friday early morning (9-11): Parallel sessions.

3. Friday late morning (11:30-13:30): Presentation of two selected papers.

Papers should be sent to mariaangeles.tobarra [at] uclm.es before 21 November 2009.

Participants will receive confirmation of acceptance before 21 December 2009. The

Committee will indicate the six papers selected at plenary sessions. They are supposed to cover a broad array of streams in the history of economic thought. We aim to publish a book gathering together the 10 best papers. Apart form the six papers presented at plenary sessions, the Committee will select four additional papers among those discussed in parallel sessions.

There are no registration fees for the Workshop. ESHET and UCLM will provide three grants (of 350 euros each) to applicants who don’t have any other source of finance and present good papers.

Scientific Committee:

• O. Dejuan (chair)
• E. Febrero
• H. Hagemann
• M.C. Marcuzzo
• P. Teixeira

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.

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.

The Department of Economics of UPorto is one of the most prestigious in the country and has a strong and significant group of faculty interested in the History of Economic Thought, including Antonio Almodovar, Maria de Fátima Brandão, and Mário Graça Moura. HET is a compulsory course at the undergraduate and graduate level. Roger Backhouse has been Visiting Professor in the Department for the last 10 years teaching at the PhD programme in Economics.

Conditions:

• The starting salary of an Assistant Professor is around 2,000€ (netto) paid 14 months (12 months plus extra payment in June and December).
• Assistant Professors are expected to teach an average of 6-8h per week, 28 weeks per year, though in some cases they may concentrate their teaching in one semester (14 weeks).
• Teaching is mainly in Portuguese at the undergraduate level and in English at the Graduate level.
• The academic year starts in mid-September and ends in mid-July.

Selection Criteria:

• Candidates should have a PhD in a relevant field for those areas, completed in the last 5 years.
• The selection committee will give priority to candidates showing strong research potential, namely through publications in prestigious international outlets.

Candidates should send their CV until the 19th June 2009:

• either electronically for the following address: srh [at] fep.up.pt
• or by normal mail to: Serviço de Recursos Humanos, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200 Porto, Portugal
• candidates willing to send their publications may do it, either electronically or in a CD/memory stick.

Interested candidates should contact Pedro Nuno Teixeira: pedrotx [at] fep.up.pt