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📢 With @[email protected] & Ariane Gemander, we’re pleased to invite you to the 6th workshop of the Belgian Political Economy Working Group on Friday, June 19, 2026, at ICHEC Brussels. 📆 Abstract proposals due by April 10 -- Email us.

Aurélien Goutsmedt 18h ago

You can submit a proposal for the 6th workshop of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium until 10 April.

The workshop will take place at ICHEC Brussels on 19 June.

You can find all the information about the call on our brand new website:
https://politicaleconomy.be/news/2026-03-11-call-for-papers-workshop.html

6th Workshop of the Political Economy Working Group — Call for Papers – Political Economy Working Group in Belgium

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

New paper by Nicolas Camilotto
on the history of "The Trust Game"

hal.science/hal-05556967

How a simple experiment became a battleground for 2 clashing visions?

Used in experimental econ to measure trust for policy vs. used in behavioral econ to refine theories of social preferences.

Also comes with a nice online application to explore the results: 019a10aa-000d-6239-b6d1-154738949fe8.share.connect.posit.cloud

#rstats #openscience

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium!

https://politicaleconomy.be

🔍 Meet the team
📚 Browse publications
🔬 Explore projects
📅 Stay tuned for events

The website is built with #rstats and #quarto (by @Posit )

It is open source: https://codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/ecopo_belgium_website

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

New paper with Thomas Delcey & Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/38na2_v1

We study how rationality changes in economics between 1900 & 2009 using ~290000 journal articles

Methodologically, we combine:
➡️ LLM sentence embeddings
➡️ bibliometric & network analysis
➡️ clustering techniques
to track semantic shifts (how rationality is discussed) & intellectual structures (how ideas circulate through citations)

#rstats

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Economic thought Mar 17

A new issue of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought is now available
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/current

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Economic thought Mar 17

A review of Maria Bach's book (Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists), by Alex M. Thomas
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.64.1.301.r3

Bach, Maria. Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists - American Economic Association

Bach, Maria. Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists by Alex M. Thomas. Published in volume 64, issue 1, pages 307-309 of Journal of Economic Literature, March 2026

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Economic thought Mar 18

A new issue of economic sociology: perspectives and conversations is avalilable now. This is a special issue on 'An intersection that counts: Gender studies and economic sociology'
https://econsoc.mpifg.de/51979/27-2

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Economic thought 6d ago

A new episode of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast is now available. This epsisode features the work of Paul Dudenhefer at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy
https://hetpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-ninety-eight

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast: Episode Ninety Eight

Çınla, François, and Jennifer interview Paul Dudenhefer, Managing Editor of both Politics & Society, a quarterly journal published by Sage, and History of Political Economy, the leading journal in the history of economic thought. Paul has spent much of his career in or around Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy, and has been a much-loved member of the history of economics community for over twenty years. Topics include Paul's work as a writer and editor, his experiences in and perspective on the field of history of economics, and especially the academic-writing workshops that he's taught for several years on behalf of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Aurélien Goutsmedt 1d ago

Economic thought 5d ago

A review of Judith Favereau and Michiru Nagats's book (Field experiments in economics: history and methodology), by María Gutiérrez Ruan
https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2611716

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